Darren Lee Miller: Retold
We tell the same stories over and over, repurposing the players to create new meaning but often the older associations remain close to the surface. Taking my cues from the metaphors seen in ancient mythology, renaissance painting, and contemporary photography, I undermine the power dynamics and roles that exist within depicted relationships to remind the viewer of familiar stories, but also to challenge expected meaning. Continue reading
* * * Earlier this summer U.V. Dogan’s work was put on my radar. Initially, I was drawn to Dogan’s sculptural work, but I fell in love with the video documentation of a few performances that were available on his site. “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” is one of those pieces; playing with Ufuk, which is both a proper noun (personal … Continue reading
The Construction of Believable Things explores the relationship between nature and construction, specifically that middle line where constructed things become believable. I am interested in belief systems and how the moment of believability is comprised of many components. Inherited ideas, rational thought, and public opinion are a few factors that form the landscape of popular … Continue reading
Metaphysics is a visual meditation on the transformative nature of human perception inspired by classical philosophy, archaic Hermetic sciences, the emancipatory aspirations of the avant-garde, and contemporary digital/New Media practices. These works reflect two worlds: a thoroughly alien landscape of the inner life, and a reframing of the rhetorical devices that decide what type … Continue reading
* * * I’m going to get sentimental for a minute. Thomas Stevenson and I met close to a decade ago. When Andrea and I met, he was there. When we were thinking of relaunching TLB, he was one of the first people I emailed. Thomas is a great storyteller with impeccable taste in music: very opinionated. Don’t believe me? … Continue reading
* * * I think of Joanna Tam‘s work as interrogating systems. As pure a researcher as the Art World has ever seen, Joanna brings a careful, calculated consideration to subjects such as personalizing data (107,594) and studying her own place within US culture (I’m American, Reduction Study). Would you expect much less from an artist who originally studied to be a computer scientist? … Continue reading
I grew up in southern Arizona, surrounded by cliché representations of my own experiences. There were cowboys riding bulls, coyotes howling on moonlit nights, beautiful sunsets, and vicious bar brawls. Those experiences have been translated into epic photographs and playfully antagonistic videos. The projects that I produce are a reflection of my complex relationship with … Continue reading
When considering relationships between the body and architecture, it must be understood that structures are not empty. Various devices exist between the two, including clothing, objects and infrastructural elements. These mediating devices have the potential to harmoniously bridge the individuality of a person, or a social body, to a given space. Through the agency of … Continue reading
The North Wind and the Sun is an engagement with and articulation of the impact of globalized economies upon and into existent historical political, and social situations in a community in significant transition both economically and demographically – much like the United States as a whole. It is an interrogation of what meaning can be made … Continue reading
Natural phenomenon – dermoid cysts, fungus, invasive flora/fauna – and my love of candied, old-master, opulence have a constant presence in my work. Through painting with attention to detail, I’ve become accustomed to the fact that nature itself, or anything living really, never totally allows you to have a perfectly idealized experience. Everything is always … Continue reading
temporary land bridge 