CONDUIT GALLERY // JAN 07 // 6-8PM
Conduit Gallery
1626 C Hi Line Drive. Dallas, TX 75207  214.939.0064
www.conduitgallery.com
Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10 AM – 5 PM
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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”