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| John Randall Nelson + Steven J. Miller project room: Edward Ruiz January 7 through February 11, 2012 |
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Steven J. Miller Fish and Fowl Steven J. Miller’s small-scale acrylic paintings are straight landscape paintings of an imagined, not too distant future in a world that may or may not be our own. The familiar objects and places (cities, trains and houses) in the paintings are integrated with the unfamiliar (islands shaped like thumbs and fantastical twenty-third century architecture.) The paintings are rendered with precise lines, and color is utilized to emphasize the flatness of the picture plane. His attention to the precision of the paintings lend an Eastern sensibility to the work. While the form of the paintings nod to an Eastern style, the content consists of a distinctively Western narrative. Steven Miller is a Texas artist who received his M.F.A. from the University of North Texas and currently resides in Denton, Texas. Mr. Miller is a recipient of the Fulbright Memorial Scholarship in 1998, which involved an extended study/travel opportunity in Japan. He has shown extensively throughout Texas and was featured in the 2011 New American Paintings Western Edition published by the Open Studios Press, Boston, MA. John Randall Nelson fraught simply fraught, with narrative John Randall Nelson embraces the concept of artist as story teller and mystic. His symbolic amalgamations, which often consist of a central image superimposed over a collage of symbols and text, make intuitive sense of disparate parts. Influenced by “outsider” artists such as Bill Traylor and Simon Rodia, Nelson has added a cogent post-modern twist that transforms an outsider sensibility into narrative, text-influenced works. A sculptor as well as a painter, Nelson’s artwork has been exhibited nationally and abroad. He has completed commissions for collections as diverse as, the National Endowment for the Arts, the United States Postal Service and the Perrier Corporation of Paris, France. Recent exhibitions since 2008 include; The Tucson Art Museum, Tucson, AZ, The Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM and Art Hong Kong 2008, Hong Kong, China. Project Room Edward Ruiz Scene Through a Window Currently residing in the Exposition Park neighborhood of Dallas, Texas, the Oak Cliff born visual artist Edward Ruiz couples his current artistic interests in digital video mapping and real time sound analysis to seamlessly marry geometric sculpture, music, and mathematic technology as a means to create all encompassing sensory installations of sight, movement, and sound. |
| Steven J. Miller, Untitled, 2011, acrylic on panel, 24x24” |
