Greg Miller and Amon met up in Chelsea to converse about painting, westerns, surf culture and his participation in the The Wild Bunch exhibition at the JoAnne Artman Gallery.
Show Notes
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- http://gmillerstudio.com/statement.html
- Surf Culture
- A little bit closer, that is what she said.
- West Coast
- Skiing
- Truckee, California
- Squaw Valley
- Before snowboarding
- X Games
- Bodie, California
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- Sears Catalog
- California Gold Rush
- Wall paper
- When did you know you wanted to be a creative?
- Materials: Resin, Plexiglas, acrylic paint, spray cans
- Pouring resin, fossilizing
- Alchemy
- Ed Roth the creator of Rat Fink
- Airbrushing
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- The Purpose of Scale
- Positivity in Context
- Extreme Nostalgic
- Contemporary Cave Painter
- Ghosts
- Copyrights
- “Westerns are my Shakespeare”—Quote Greg Miller
- Westerns as a genre
- JoAnne Artman Gallery
- Sam Peckinpah – Film Director and Screenwriter
- The Wild Bunch Trailer YouTube
- The Wild Bunch
- The Quagmire of Culture
- The Magnificent Seven – Western Movie directed by John Sturges
- The Magnificent Seven (Western) Movie Trailer Youtube
- The Outlaw Josey Wales (Western) Movie directed by Clint Eastwood
- The Outlaw Josey Wales (Western) Movie Trailer Youtube
- Developing a different dialogue when painting
- “I’m a painter, I have to do what’s in my heart.” –Quote Greg Miller
- Believe in yourself, following your heart, and own it
- Shout out to Barbara!
- Contemporary Art
- Here a list of books you can read on contemporary art by Taschen
- Andy Warhola Artist, director, and producer
- Beatnik
- Different mediums
- The seduction
- Blick Art Materials
- 10 Years to the show
- Studs Terkel – author, historian, actor, and broadcaster
- Studs Terkel interviews Muhammad Ali – WFMT 11/26/75
- Monet – French Painter, a founder of French Impressionist
- French Impressionism
- Paul Cezanne – French artist and Post-Impressionist painter
- Quentin Tarantino – filmmaker, actor, film programmer, and cinema owner
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Comedy Drama Film directed and written by Quentin Tarantino
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood –Official Trailer Youtube
- Jackie Brown Move directed and written by Quentin Tarantino
- Jackie Brown Movie Trailer Youtube
- Pulp Fiction Movie – written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, who conceived it with Roger Avary
- Pulp Fiction Movie Trailer Youtube
- Diverse Mythology- Good vs. Evil
- How to donate to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to help end childhood cancer
- Painted surfboards
- Wolfman Jack – Radio personality
- Charlie Bunger Surfing legend
- Step into Liquid – Surfing Documentary
- Step into Liquid Documentary Trailer Youtube
- On the Shoulders of Giants: The Discovery of Cortes Bank
- On the Shoulder of Giants: The Cortes Bank Expedition Short Video Youtube
- There was no basketball
- Time, politics, sex, nature
- Jay Myself Official Trailer Youtube
- Persevere
- The 50’s and 60’s
- Advertisement was hand-painted
- Venice, Los Angeles
- Street cred
- Fred Hughes on Andy Warhol
- Julian Schnabel -painter and filmmaker
- Want to watch a documentary about Julian Schnabel the artist and filmmaker?
- Julian Schnabel Private Portrait Documentary
- Adjacent to the energy
- To do what you want
- “The Wild Bunch.” Billy Schenck. Greg Miller. America Martin.
- William Holden – actor
- Chinatown – Film directed by Roman Polanski
- Chinatown – Trailer Youtube
- People relate to comics
- William Faulkner – writer and Nobel Prize laureate
- John Steinbeck – author
- The woman outlaw
- Circles
- Go check out the Wild Bunch at the JoAnne Artman Gallery 511 W 22nd St, New York, NY 10011
- “Don’t think” Quote Greg Miller
Artist Statement
Drawing from the diverse cultural and geographic makeup of his Californian roots, Greg Miller explores his relationship with the space he inhabits to communicate a particular urban experience. Working with both paint and collage, he constructs and deconstructs exploring the contradiction, ambiguity, and truth between urban streetscape and history.
Miller’s art is clever and cool. His abstracted backgrounds of drips, patterns, and phrases and the peeling back of layers provide a study in the impermanence of the things that surround us. His large-scale paintings and installations aim to make the most fleeting parts of American culture tangible. They grab us nostalgically, rousing us to enjoy the momentary beauty found in the impermanent parts of our lives. There is a fragile heroicness conveyed within the temporary nature of it all, especially within his construction of paper, wood, and natural materials, that gives Miller’s work liveliness and depth.
Greg Miller’s work is featured in numerous museum and private collections that have traveled internationally including those organized by the Charles Saatchi Collection and the Frederick R. Weisman Collection. The Get Go, a volume of his writings, photography and paintings, was published in 2010, and the first comprehensive monograph on the artist, Signs of the Nearly Actual, was published in 2008.
Miller spends his time between New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA.
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