Dan Miller: Clattering Poetry
Lower Gallery
September 8 - November 12, 2021
"[Miller's] best work achieves a clattering poetry of infinite discrimination."
Kevin Killian
With limited verbal capabilities, self-taught artist Dan Miller has used written words and drawing as his main form of communication throughout his life. He became interested in hardware, lightbulbs, and electrical tools at a young age, looking at his father's hardware catalogues. His layered, heavily-worked drawings incorporate elements such as repetitive text and abstracted forms of mechanical items including lightbulbs and electrical sockets.
"Miller’s repetitive application of marks creates a rich but ultimately undecipherable field."
Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Mr. Miller’s abstract doodle-grids combine the historic expressiveness of drawing and modernist abstraction with a covert art world critique."
Martha Schwendener, New York Times