C-File Feature: Brad Miller
July 25, 2017
LOS ANGELES — Southern California-based sculptor and ceramic artist Brad Miller’s latest exhibition Brad Miller: Stones & Object Relations Theory at Edward Cella gallery (July 22 – August 19, 2017) aligns with his keenness and curiosity for organic forms and our psychoanalytic relationships to them featuring lichen-like texture and hand-made stones. Recalling this layered frenzied energy in his Venice Beach studio, Miller physically interacts with his work applying layer after layer of slip and paint, firing, torching, sanding, tumbling and grinding away the layers. This graduall process reveals their temporary condition as objects that change according to the needs of those who use them. Employing methods of abstract expressionism and conceptualism, Miller orchestrates accidents to build forms that mirror found stones and paintings that could be sculptures in an exacting manner.
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