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Greg Miller: Down by the River May 3 - May 31, 2012
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Greg Miller’s paintings embrace the American visual vernacular – that is,
the vernacular of the American apex – with almost exhausting breadth. Taking in billboard
advertising, comic books, magazine illustration, television programming, and the whole
panoply of Mad Men-era consumer stimulus, including the Pop Art that reflected America’s
imperial appetites back at it, Miller’s neo-Pop oeuvre muses on the American experience at
its self-consuming zenith. Driven by an almost Proustian nostalgia, Miller conjures a double,
and double-edged, homage, recalling the images of his childhood as promising comfort and
plenitude – comfort and plenitude delivered more effectively by the images themselves than
by the goods and services they shilled.
Translating first-hand involvement into experience once removed, and keeping that
experience at a remove with resined surfaces, Miller gives his anonymous icons a painterly
dynamism that ironically belies the aesthetic neutrality of the originals. Lichtenstein,
Rosenquist and Warhol had contemplated the transcendent enervation of such images,
rejecting the gesturality of Abstract Expressionism and emphasizing the abstract formal
power of the images themselves; but Miller re-injects these images with that very gesturality,
marking them as a sign of their resonance with him on a personal level. They mean
something markedly different to Miller than they did to his Pop forebears. -- Peter Frank
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