Grant Miller
October 9 - November 6, 2009

Opening Reception: Friday, October 9, 6pm-8pm

The Hunt Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Kansas City based artist Grant Miller. We live in a blitz of information and of overexposure: two-dimensions are replaced by three-dimensions, and absence appears larger than presence. For the past few years, Grant Miller’s aluminum and panel paintings have been engaged in a continuing dialogue with the structures and architecture of our advancing and increasingly transparent technological world. The dichotomy of Miller’s hard, slick-edged structures and his lush areas of liquid residue emphasize the battle between the organic and the artificial. Miller builds up layers through a combination of accumulation, which act as mimicry on the current theme of technology and information. In these new, large-scale paintings, Miller continues his complex abstract language. Applied to the panel is an infinite overlay and energetic fields of frames, armatures and architectural structures seen from multiple perspectives that provide varying entry points. The work specifically molds and shapes this architecture and uses it as the basis for invented constructions existing in the space between the abstract and the representational. Drips and large gestures of paint play a more prominent role in this new body of work, flattening space in some areas while on another plane create depth and confusion as the eye works through many linear obstacles. By employing a multiple-perspective technique, Miller restrains the viewer with a network of diagonal lines creating a pervasive energy that can be read as both virtual and actual spaces. The physical process of layering is used to echo the development of information and functions as a stage for visual saturation and the implication of excessiveness.

Watch the video of his lecture, click on the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/v/wU3v_7_xe4c&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0

This exhibition made possible by generous support of the Missouri Arts Council and the Regional Arts Commission.

Grant Miller is a graduate of the Washington University, St. Louis, MO with MFA in Printmaking and Drawing (2003). He studied Printmaking at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO. In 2007 Miller’s work has been included in “More is More: Maximalist Tendencies in Painting” – group exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL and in New American Paintings, Book #71, 2007 Midwest Edition. He has been awarded residencies in Millay Colony of the Arts in Austerlitz, NY and Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, France.










syllabus:video series
Qian Li
October 9 - November 6, 2009

"The video titled Epilogue is the life story of two humanized dots discovering love and hardship within today's society. The piece intends to evoke personal memories that are emotionally tied to the viewer's own experiences. The visuals are strongly influenced by traditional Chinese painting. The rising and falling life of the dots is synchronized with the music, with the intent they empower one another." -Qian Li

Qian Li was born and raised in China, where she was educated at The Central Academy of Arts and Design (now the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University) in Bejing, China. She earned her MFA in 2003 at UMass Dartmouth. Her video work was recently shown at MOCA Cleveland, Boston Cyber Art Festival, 12th International Video Festival Videomedeja in Serbia; Transhift08 in Tennessee; SIGGRAPH; "Kinetic Image" in Virginia; International Video Festival in Indonesia; and Electronic Language International Festival's in Brazil.