Dan Miller
Untitled, n.d.

Mixed media

15 x 22 1/4 inches (38.1 x 56.52 cm)

Courtesy of Creative Growth Art Center

Selected by Valérie Rousseau

Dan Miller’s artwork comprises overlays of words and imagery that often build to the point of abstraction. Each work contains a written record of Miller’s interest in objects found in the hardware stores and construction sites. In particular,  light bulbs, electrical sockets, jackhammers, and soldering guns. With limited expressive language, Miller learned early to type and write words and numbers to communicate. Text became the primary influence on his artistic practice, transforming words and symbols into graphic elements, and employing an abstract visual language as a tool of inquiry and expression. 

Miller has had solo exhibitions at White Columns, Andrew Edlin Gallery, and Ricco Maresca Gallery in New York, Galerie Christian Berst in Paris, and Diane Rosenstein Gallery in Los Angeles. His work was selected for the Venice Biennale in 2017, and has been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Berkeley Art Museum; The Museum of Everything, London; Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Rachel Uffner Gallery and Partners & Spade, New York; Gallery Paule Anglim, Jules Maeght and 836M, San Francisco; Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan; Galerie Christian Berst and ABCD, Paris. Miller’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, American Folk Art Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, Mad Musée, and the Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne. Miller’s work is also included in the private collections of David Byrne, Cindy Sherman, Maurizio Cattelan, Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Thea Westreich and Ethan Wagner, Nicolas Rohatyn and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Andy and Kate Spade, among many others.