James Miller
Region: Northeast
I am standing zipped inside a Tyvek suit, under a tent, staring.
And now you’re here with me, in eye. Or shadow. Light filters
through glass; through all the plastic and fluorescent paint
and shit on the ground; through some airborne dust. Particles
disperse and settle.
I identify as a painter, but I encounter the studio as a piece
of technology. My working method is hybrid: I combine direct
and indirect painting, printmaking methods, and a modified
airbrush technique to record and transform material histories,
structures, and the environmental detritus around my studio.
My canvases are repositories, fixed traces calling to mind filmic
artifacts, blueprints, and X-rays. In this way, the work’s content is
connected not only to the reflexive spaces of modernist painting
and drawing, but to image processing itself.
Through this experimental approach, I develop questions about
painting’s engagement with photographic media, while drawing
on the surreal residue of my local landscape.