Dan Miller – Recent Paintings
Dan Miller - Recent Paintings
October 28, 2017
10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Diane Rosenstein
831 N. Highland Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90038


Diane Rosenstein Gallery is pleased to announce Dan Miller: Recent Paintings, a solo
exhibition of paintings by the Oakland-based artist. This show will be installed in our
Project Rooms and presents an edited selection of works on paper (2012-17) as well
as a monumental scroll painted earlier this year by Miller at the Creative Growth Art
Center. This is Dan Miller’s second show at the gallery and in Los Angeles.
The artist, who is on the autism spectrum, has developed an intensive body of work that
employs language as its fundamental subject and departure-point. These intuitive yet
rigorously executed paintings are an amalgamation of his thoughts and autobiographical
experiences, often centered on the elusive nature of tangible experience.
Dan Miller enfolds gesture and text in compositions that articulate an innate and
pure language. His artwork reflects his perceptions — letters and words are repeatedly
overdrawn, often creating ink-layered masses, hovering on the page and built up to the
point of obliteration or destruction of the ground. Each work contains the written recording
of the artist’s obsession with objects like light bulbs, electrical sockets, food and the names
of cities and people.
He immerses repeated words and symbolic motifs in a vigorous palette of acrylics, inks
and graphite. As the art historian Jennifer Borum writes, “[Miller] also uses paint,
varying his palette to add texture to his already explosive sensibility. Layered elements
appear to be in a constant flux: emerging into view while being scratched out of existence.
Simultaneously poetic and artistic, expressive and conceptual, his work renders distinctions
between such categories meaningless. [He is] an Outsider who continues to gain
international attention in both artistic and literary worlds.”
Dan Miller (USA, b. 1961) is included in Viva Arte Viva (curated by Christine Macel),
at the 57th Venice Biennale. A prominent “Outsider” artist, his artwork is in the
permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Smithsonian
American Art Museum, Washington, DC; and the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film
Archive (BAM/PFA), Berkeley, CA. He has received solo exhibitions at Ricco/Maresca
Gallery, New York (2014), Galerie Christian Berst, Paris, France (2014), White Columns
(2007), New York; and was included in Create (Curated by Lawrence Rinder, with
Matthew Higgs) at BAM/PFA (2011).


831 N. Highland Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90038

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