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Single Voice, 38.1x55.88cm, Watercolor and Ink, 2004
Michael MILLER  

Michael Miller finds his images in the vastness of our visual record. He is a scavenger and recycler not only of available images and ideas, but also of processes and his own inventions. A Professor of Print Media for forty-plus years, within the body of his printed oeuvre, Miller has employed traditional as well as photomechanical methods of printmaking, but also produced singular works on paper that are combinations of these processes. Indeed, his career trajectory parallels the greatest expansion and acceptance of print vocabularies in history, making his hybrid objects which commingle traditional and industrial technology mirrors of what is possible in and expected of works on paper today. Most recently, in his Voices series seen here, he has combined various media without regard to foregrounding traditions of printmaking practice. Yet, at the same time, the present work references historical styles of artists whose work often was disseminated in the popular press—satirical artists and political cartoonists such as Saul Steinberg,
Robert Crumb, and especially the great editorial artists of the late-18th and early-19th centuries, whose work appeared in the early manifestations of a daily newspaper.
 
Like his exemplars, Miller finds his subject in the power struggles that exist between classes of people—authority—as well as those that exist internally—imagined, or constructed, but based on lived experience. His tools reference common drawing techniques, such as hatched and crossed-hatched linear patterns (Angleheads), grids composed of dots which ground the compositions, and repetitions of lines in arabesque that he uses to create hilarious parodies of mental states (Headchain, Loopman, and Yellowheads, for example).
 
Moreover, just as Pop artists such as Roy Lichtenstein fetishized the look of half-tone dots used in reproduction, Miller shows here that he is a connoisseur of line qualities. The artists who he admires employ lines to define their subjects’ appearance, mental state, as well as poke fun at or criticize their attributes or presumed status and authority. In the Voices works, what appear to be hand-drawn, autographic lines are often cut, scanned, copied, or otherwise resized from an original mark. This imparts various twists of meaning from a tentative, vulnerable state to a sarcastic, self-parodying exposé.
 
Perhaps even more devastatingly witty is Miller’s use of corporate graphing concepts to organize the compositions in Bubbleheads and Headstring. Often used to mind-numbing effect in lectures by people who know less about the subject than those being lectured to, one can well imagine that the artist has suffered through countless meetings in which charts of this type are used to quantify ineffable ideas. Sadly, in today’s world, most of us
can relate to this terror in the conference room experience. Thus inspired, in Voices, Miller has created a suite of sarcastic yet appealing visual equivalents for painful commonplaces of contemporary life—in the workplace, and in the mind.

Education:
1962-1964 M.A. Fine Arts, The Pennsylvania State          
                   University (2 year program- M.F.A. equivalent)
1960-1962 B.S. Art Education, East Carolina University
 
Academic:
1973-Present Professor, Printmedia Department
                       School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2007- 2009     Adjunct Professor, Korea University (summer)
1996-2006     Senior Advisor, International Relations
                       School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1996-1999     Chairman, Professor, Printmedia Department
                       School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1994-1996     Associate Vice-President for Academic
                       Affairs (Interim)
                       School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1992-1994     Chair, Graduate Division
                       School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1976-1979     Chair, Printmaking Department
1984-1987     The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1968-1973      Assistant Professor, University of Delaware
1967-1968      Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University
1964-1967      Instructor, Middle Tennessee State University
 
Selected Exhibitions
Colorprint U.S.A. 40th Anniversary Exhibiton, April 2010
Solo Show, Gallery Sun Contemporary, Seoul, April 2010
Walsh Gallery, Anniversary Group Show, Chicago, 2009    
“CONCEPTUAL COMICS”, Banff Art Centre, Alberta, 2006
“FACE TO FACE, Ewha Museum and the Keumsan Gallery, Seoul, 2004
“FACE TO FACE”, solo show, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, 2005
“NO SMOKING”, Group Show, Chicago, 2001
“SHORT STORIES”, Solo Show- Union League, 2001
“Out of Line” Invitational Drawing Exhibition, Chicago Cultural Center, 2000
One Person Show: Drake University, Jan. 1999
"Beastly Thoughts", Chicago, Illinois, 1998
7th International Biennial Exhibition of Portrait, Drawings and Graphics '97, Tuzla, Bosnia/Herzegovina, (invited artist), 1997
 
Collections
Seoul Museum of Art (2009)
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, 2009
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
Banff Art Centre, Alberta, Canada
Flasch Artist’s Books Collection, Chicago
Skopelos Art Foundation, Greece
Shinsegae Corporation, Seoul, Korea
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas
Musee d'Art Contemporain, Chamaliers, France
Brooklyn Museum
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Springfield, Mo. Art Museum
Joseph Heinz Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Hart, Schaffner and Marx, Chicago
Princeton University
Texas Tech University
Rochester Institute of Technology
University of Delaware
East Tennessee State University
Fisk University
Georgia State University, Atlanta
Hunterdon, N.J. Art Center
Charles Russell Museum, Montana
Colgate University
Mankato State University
Tulsa City - County Library
Austin Peay State University
Edinboro State University
 
Other
Board of Directors, Skopelos Found.for the Arts,Greece
Artist in Residence, Ewha Woman University, 2004
“Nano- Stories in a Blink”, comic book, Sara Ranchouse Pub., 2005
Lecture,  Sookmyung Woman’s University, 2004,
Lecture, Korean National University of the Arts, 2000
Juror, Beijing/ Chicago student exchange competition, 2000
Juror, City of Chicago, City of Beijing, Arch. Comp.1999
Juror, Fine Arts Gallery Exhibition, Chicago, Ill. 1999
Lecture, Beijing Central Academy of fine Arts, 1998
Juror, Chicago International Grants Program, 1997
Juror, Seoul International Print Biennial, 1996
Review: Art World, November 1996
MANIF 95' and 96' Catalogues
Review, Mun-Hwa Il Bo (Daily Newspaper)Seoul
Article based on transcription of lecure at American Embassy, Seoul, Korea
Art World (Korean Art Magazine), 1994
Lecture, “Contemporary American Printmaking: High Art or Low Art?”
U.S. Information Service, American Embassy, Seoul, Korea,1994
Curator, "Prints from Chicago" Seoul, Korea - 1994
Curator, "Prints From Chicago", VI Mostra De Gravura Print Biennial
Curritiba, Brazil
Visiting Artist, Korean National University of the Arts
Visiting Artist:  Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts
Visiting Artist:  Silpakorn University, Bangkok,
Visiting Artist:  University of Texas, Austin
Visiting Artist, Tyler School of Art
Visiting Artist, Nova Scotia College of Art
Visiting Artist, University of Delaware
 


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