
Spotlight Artist
Chris Miller
Pacific Coast
Artist Statement
I am an intuitive maker who explores the abstract by employing a
wide array of two- and three-dimensional processes. I compose
experimental spaces with kinetic constructions that engage in
distinctive, multilayered mark making. Drawing machines deposit
ink on paper, which is incorporated into future devices. This circuit
produces dense, idiosyncratic configurations, which allows for a
rapport between informed intentions and unpredictable results.
These configurations are both intimate and public, involving
awareness of intricacies within the results, while treating the
work as an artistic document that records the phenomenology
of color, liquid, and time. By creating immensely intricate
environments in which details are in constant change, I am able
to engage the viewer’s own wonder. When in motion, the work is
akin to fire in its ability to captivate the imagination. Ink drips and
accumulates as a pen incessantly marks the surface; observing
these moments accesses our basic need for understanding. The
viewer is engaged in a dialogue with the imaginative and the
physical that leads to a greater sensitivity to the micro and macro
in our world.
Artist's Additional works
Works shared by the artist outside of their featured New American Paintings selections


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