Painting by Greg Miller

Greg Miller and Amon met up in Chelsea to converse about painting, westerns, surf culture and his participation in the The Wild Bunch exhibition at the JoAnne Artman Gallery.

Show Notes

• • http://gmillerstudio.com/statement.html
  • Surf Culture
  • A little bit closer, that is what she said.
  • West Coast
  • Skiing
  • Truckee, California
  • Squaw Valley
  • Before snowboarding
  • X Games
  • Bodie, California

Painting by Greg Miller

• • Sears Catalog
  • California Gold Rush
  • Wall paper
  • When did you know you wanted to be a creative?
  • Materials: Resin, Plexiglas, acrylic paint, spray cans
  • Pouring resin, fossilizing
  • Alchemy
  • Ed Roth the creator of Rat Fink
  • Airbrushing

Painting by Greg Miller

• • The Purpose of Scale
  • Positivity in Context
  • Extreme Nostalgic
  • Contemporary Cave Painter
  • Ghosts
  • Copyrights
  • “Westerns are my Shakespeare”—Quote Greg Miller
  • Westerns as a genre
  • JoAnne Artman Gallery
  • Sam Peckinpah – Film Director and Screenwriter
  • The Wild Bunch Trailer YouTube
  • The Wild Bunch
  • The Quagmire of Culture
  • The Magnificent Seven – Western Movie directed by John Sturges
  • The Magnificent Seven (Western) Movie Trailer Youtube
  • The Outlaw Josey Wales (Western) Movie directed by Clint Eastwood
  • The Outlaw Josey Wales (Western) Movie Trailer Youtube
  • Developing a different dialogue when painting
  • “I’m a painter, I have to do what’s in my heart.” –Quote Greg Miller
  • Believe in yourself, following your heart, and own it
  • Shout out to Barbara!
  • Contemporary Art
  • Here a list of books you can read on contemporary art by Taschen
  • Andy Warhola Artist, director, and producer
  • Beatnik
  • Different mediums
  • The seduction
  • Blick Art Materials

Painting by Greg Miller

• 10 Years to the show
• Studs Terkel –  author, historian, actor, and broadcaster
• Studs Terkel interviews Muhammad Ali – WFMT 11/26/75
• Monet – French Painter, a founder of French Impressionist
• French Impressionism
• Paul Cezanne – French artist and Post-Impressionist painter
• Quentin Tarantino – filmmaker, actor, film programmer, and cinema owner
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Comedy Drama Film directed  and written by Quentin Tarantino
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood –Official Trailer Youtube
• Jackie Brown Move directed and written by Quentin Tarantino
• Jackie Brown Movie Trailer Youtube
• Pulp Fiction Movie – written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, who conceived it with Roger Avary
• Pulp Fiction Movie Trailer Youtube
• Diverse Mythology- Good vs. Evil
• How to donate to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to help end childhood cancer
• Painted surfboards
• Wolfman Jack – Radio personality
• Charlie Bunger Surfing legend
• Step into Liquid – Surfing Documentary
• Step into Liquid Documentary Trailer Youtube
• On the Shoulders of Giants: The Discovery of Cortes Bank
• On the Shoulder of Giants: The Cortes Bank Expedition Short Video Youtube
• There was no basketball
• Time, politics, sex, nature
• Jay Myself Official Trailer Youtube
• Persevere
• The 50’s and 60’s
• Advertisement was hand-painted
• Venice, Los Angeles
• Street cred
• Fred Hughes on Andy Warhol
• Julian Schnabel -painter and filmmaker
• Want to watch a documentary about Julian Schnabel the artist and filmmaker?
• Julian Schnabel Private Portrait Documentary
• Adjacent to the energy
• To do what you want
• “The Wild Bunch.” Billy Schenck. Greg Miller. America Martin.
• William Holden – actor
• Chinatown – Film directed by Roman Polanski
• Chinatown – Trailer Youtube
• People relate to comics
• William Faulkner – writer and Nobel Prize laureate
• John Steinbeck – author
• The woman outlaw
• Circles
• Go check out the Wild Bunch at the JoAnne Artman Gallery 511 W 22nd St, New York, NY 10011
• “Don’t think” Quote Greg Miller

Artist Statement

Drawing from the diverse cultural and geographic makeup of his Californian roots, Greg Miller explores his relationship with the space he inhabits to communicate a particular urban experience. Working with both paint and collage, he constructs and deconstructs exploring the contradiction, ambiguity, and truth between urban streetscape and history.

Miller’s art is clever and cool. His abstracted backgrounds of drips, patterns, and phrases and the peeling back of layers provide a study in the impermanence of the things that surround us. His large-scale paintings and installations aim to make the most fleeting parts of American culture tangible. They grab us nostalgically, rousing us to enjoy the momentary beauty found in the impermanent parts of our lives. There is a fragile heroicness conveyed within the temporary nature of it all, especially within his construction of paper, wood, and natural materials, that gives Miller’s work liveliness and depth.

Greg Miller’s work is featured in numerous museum and private collections that have traveled internationally including those organized by the Charles Saatchi Collection and the Frederick R. Weisman Collection. The Get Go, a volume of his writings, photography and paintings, was published in 2010, and the first comprehensive monograph on the artist, Signs of the Nearly Actual, was published in 2008.

Miller spends his time between New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA.

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Today’s guest on the show is artist, photographer and first time director Stephen Wilkes.  Stephen is well known for his photographs of Ellis Island, Bethlehem Steel as well as being the creator of the panoramic photo-series Day To Night. Stephen is also the director of the new documentary film Jay Myself now playing at Film Forum. If you enjoyed last week’s episode with Jay Maisel then you’re going to love this conversation.

Big Love and Shout Out to Susan Norget Film Promotion

Stephen Wilkes (L) and Jay Maisel (R). Credit: © Stephen Wilkes

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Keep Up to Date with Stephen Wilkes

Website: https://stephenwilkes.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/swilkesphoto

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephenwilkes/

Credit: © Stephen Wilkes

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Show Notes

JAY MYSELF -Official Trailer

Production companies: Mind Hive Films, Crooked Mile
Distributor:Oscilloscope
Director:Stephen Wilkes
Screenwriter:Josh Alexander
Producers:Henry Jacobson, Emma Tammi, Bette Wilkes
Executive producers:Stephen Wilkes, Jennie Wilkes, Michael Hirschmann
Directors of photography:Stephen Wilkes,Jason Greene
Editor:Armando Croda
Composer:Joel Goodman
Co-Executive Producer: Doug Blush
Additional Editing: Daniel Haworth
Music Supervisor: Jonathan Finegold
Shout out to Chris!

Bethlehem Steel, Credit: © Stephen Wilkes

• New Book: Stephen Wilkes. Day to Night
• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/StephenWilkesPhotography/
• Ted Talk: The passing of time, caught in a single photo
• Film Forum
• Themes
• Magic
• Passion
• Storyteller
• “What you put out there is what you get back” Stephen Wilkes Quote
• Yellow Pages
• Pre Internet: Who Invented the Internet?by evan andrews March 2019 History.com
• 190 Bowery
• The 72-Room Bohemian Dream House by wendy goodman September 2008 New York Magazine
• Ocean of photography
• “TERRIFC”
• Voice of Oz
• The Clapper(1984 commercial)
• Otis Hand Crank Elevator
• Cigars

Coney Island, New York, Credit: © Stephen Wilkes

• Sorel Boot Liners
• Shooting since I was 12.
• “Do you remember what your first visual inspiration?” (interview question asked by Stephen Wilkes of Jay Maisel)
• Bear witness
• Camera Obscura Effect(YouTube Video)
• iPhone
• gettyimages
• Evolved Visual Language
• A gift to Jay
• The importance of mentors
• Apprenticeship
• Kodachrome film
• A brief History of Kodachrome by claire suddath Time June 2009
• Documentaries
• Love Letter to Jay
• Mentor the audience
• Statement images
• Signatures
• The arc of his life
• Paul Simon – Kodachrome
• Kodachrome Lyrics by Paul Simon
• Paul Simon– Singer Songwriter and Actor
• Do your homework, be prepared, but ultimately be present.
• You are handed a card.
• The joy of seeing
• Seeing and looking
• Work of art
• Dismantling his best friend
• Moving
• E.T. and Elliot
• Deconstruction
• Amanda Maisel
• Jean Michel Basquiat– Artist
• Who Was SAMO?
• Keith Haring– Artist
• Barking Dogby Keith Haring
• CBBG
•  Louise Nevelson– Artist
• Roy Lichtenstein– Artist
• Chalkboard
• Bethlehem Steel – The Fat Lady Sang
• The power in words
• Jason Greene– cinematographer, photographer and documentary filmmaker
• “You can’t ever really smell yourself.” Jay Maisel Quote
• The character of Jay
• Horace Silver– American Jazz Pianist
• Horace Silver – They Jody Grind
• Film is collaborative
• Great listener
• Objectivity
• Life Magazine
• Bob Ciano – The Art of Jazz: Designs from the golden age of Modern jazz (interview)
• Stephen Wilkes Ellis Island
• Mark Webber
• New York Landmark Conservancy
• The South Side of Ellis Island
• Passion Project
• Shout out to Les!
• Zone system for color
• Pinhole lens
• Gravitational waves
• History in light
• Moment of Discovery
• Moment of Photography
• Connection of My Mother
• Parallels
• Sensitivity
• Learn from everything
• Be a little uncomfortable
• “I want to do things that inspire people. I want to do things that make statements.” – Stephen Wilkes Quote
• Love what you do & you will never work
• Hard work and passion
• Capturing ice crystals
• Jay Maisel on Color(Ice Crystals Images)
• Ice Crystals, Orangeby Jay Maisel
• See Jay Myself more than once!

Whitney Biennial 2019
May 17–Sep 22, 2019

If you’re interested in finding out what’s happening in art today then Whitney Biennial 2019 is a good place to start. 

In 1932, this museum was founded by the artist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and the Biennial is the longest-running survey of American art.

This year features about 75 artists and collectives working in painting, sculpture, installation, film and video, photography, performance and of course sound.

Courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art

Jane Panetta and Rujeko Hockley made about 300 studio visits around the country before selecting 75 artists and collectives. 

For me, the Whitney Biennial is an opportunity to question or challenge everything I think I know. I’m not here to debate. I’m here to look, listen and learn.

Hold on, can I make a suggestion? Always take the audio tour. It might just unlock somethings you didn’t see in the work you’re looking at or it might give you some additional info that you didn’t even know.

I’m not even going to try to speak to your experience when you visit but the art that I saw today had me captivated, some of it raised a few questions and I’ll definitely left with a lot to ponder.

But isn’t that the point?

You’ll just have to see it for yourself, the 2019 edition of the Whitney Biennial will run from May 17th to through September 22nd. 

Curatorial Statement
By Jane Panetta and Rujeko Hockley

Often described as a snapshot of art in the United States, the Biennial brings together work by individuals and collectives in a broad array of mediums. Over the past year and a half—an undeniably intense and polarized time in this country—we made hundreds of studio visits. While we often encountered heightened emotions, they were directed toward thoughtful and productive experimentation, the re-envisioning of self and society, and political and aesthetic strategies for survival. Although much of the work presented here is steeped in sociopolitical concerns, the cumulative effect is open-ended and hopeful.

Rujeko Hockley (left) and Jane Panetta (right). Photograph by Scott Rudd.

Key issues and approaches emerge across the exhibition: the mining of history as a means to reimagine the present or future; a profound consideration of race, gender, and equity; and explorations of the vulnerability of the body. Concerns for community appear in the content and social engagement of the work and also in the ways that the artists navigate the world. Many of the artists included emphasize the physicality of their materials, whether in sculptures assembled out of found objects, heavily worked paintings, or painstakingly detailed drawings. An emphasis on the artist’s hand suggests a rejection of the digital and the related slick, packaged presentation of the self in favor of more individualized and idiosyncratic work.

While we were organizing this exhibition, broader debates in the public sphere surfaced at the Museum, which itself became the site and subject of protest, as it has been throughout its history. Fundamental to the Whitney’s identity is its openness to dialogue, and the conversations that have occurred here and across the country became a productive lens through which to synthesize our own looking, thinking, and self-questioning.

The 2019 Whitney Biennial is organized by Jane Panetta, associate curator, and Rujeko Hockley, assistant curator, with Ramsay Kolber, curatorial project assistant.

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Full Artist List

• Eddie Arroyo / Born 1976 in Miami, FL / Lives in Miami
• Korakrit Arunanondchai / Born 1986 in Bangkok, Thailand / Lives in New York, NY and Bangkok, Thailand
• Olga Balema / Born 1984 in Lviv, Ukraine / Lives in New York, NY
• Morgan Bassichis / Born 1983 in Newton, MA / Lives in Brooklyn, NY
• Blitz Bazawule / Born 1982 in Accra, Ghana / Lives in New York, NY
• Alexandra Bell / Born 1983 in Chicago, IL / Lives in Brooklyn, NY
• Brian Belott / Born 1973 in East Orange, NJ / Lives in Brooklyn, NY
• Meriem Bennani / Born 1988 in Rabat, Morocco / Lives in Brooklyn, NY
• Robert Bittenbender / Born 1987 in Washington, DC / Lives in Brooklyn, NY
• Lucas Blalock / Born 1978 in Asheville, NC / Lives in Brooklyn, NY
• Garrett Bradley / Born 1986 in New York, NY / Lives in New Orleans, LA
• Milano Chow / Born 1987 in Los Angeles, CA / Lives in Los Angeles, CA
• Colectivo Los Ingrávidos / Founded 2011 in Tehuacán, Mexico
• Thirza Cuthand / Born 1978 in Regina, Saskatchewan / Lives in Toronto, Ontario
• John Edmonds / Born 1989 in Washington, DC / Lives in Brooklyn, NY
• Nicole Eisenman / Born 1965 in Verdun, France / Lives in Brooklyn, NY
• Janiva Ellis / Born 1987 in Oakland, CA / Lives in Brooklyn, NY and Los Angeles, CA
• Kota Ezawa / Born 1969 in Cologne, West Germany / Lives in Oakland, CA
• Brendan Fernandes / Born 1979 in Nairobi, Kenya / Lives in Chicago, IL
• FIERCE and Paper Tiger Televiesion / FIERCE founded in 2000 in New York, NY / Paper Tiger Founded 1981 in New York, NY
• Marcus Fischer / Born 1977 in Torrance, CA / Lives in Portland, OR
• Forensic Architecture / Founded 2010 in London, United Kingdom
• Ellie Ga / Born 1976 in New York, NY / Lives in Stockholm, Sweden
• Nicolas Galanin / Born 1979 in Stika, AK / Lives in Sitka, AK
• Sofia Gallisá Muriente / Born 1986 in San Juan, PR / Lives in San Juan, PR
• Jeffrey Gibson / Born 1972 in Colorado Springs, CO / Lives in Germantown, NY
• Todd Gray / Born 1954 in Los Angeles, CA / Lives in Los Angeles, CA and Akwidaa, Ghana
• Sam Green / Born 1966 in Detroit, MI / Lives in New York, NY
• Barbara Hammer / Born 1939 in Los Angeles, CA / Lives in New York, NY
• Ilana Harris-Babou / Born 1991 in Brooklyn, NY / Lives in Williamstown, MA and Brooklyn, NY
• Matthew Angelo Harrison / Born 1989 in Detroit, MI / Lives in Detroit, MI
• Curran Hatleberg / Born 1982 in Washington, DC / Lives in Baltimore, MD
• Madeline Hollander / Born 1986 in Los Angeles, CA / Lives in New York, NY
• Iman Issa / Born in Cairo, Egypt / Lives in Berlin, Germany and New York, NY
• Tomashi Jackson / Born 1980 in Houston, TX / Lives in New York, NY and Cambridge, MA
• Steffani Jemison / Born 1981 in Berkeley, CA / Lives in Brooklyn, NY
• Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil and Jackson Polys
• Adam Khalil: Born 1988 in Nyack, NY / Lives in Brooklyn, NY
• Zack Khalil: Born 1991 in Newton, MA / Lives in Brooklyn, NY
• Jackson Polys: Born 1976 in Ketchikan, AK / Lives in New York, NY
• Christine Sun Kim / Born 1980 in Orange County, CA / Lives in Berlin, Germany
• Josh Kline / Born 1979 in Philadelphia, PA / Lives in Brooklyn, NY
• Autumn Knight / Born 1980 in Houston, TX / Lives in New York, NY
• Carolyn Lazard / Born 1987 in Upland, CA / Lives in Philadelphia, PA
• Maia Ruth Lee / Born 1983 in Busan, South Korea / Lives in New York, NY
• Simone Leigh / Born 1967 in Chicago, IL / Lives in Brooklyn, NY
• Daniel Lind-Ramos / Born 1953 in Loiza, PR / Lives in Loiza, PR
• James Luna / Born 1950 in Orange, CA / Died 2018
• Eric N. Mack / Born 1987 in Columbia, MD / Lives in New York, NY
• Calvin Marcus / Born 1988 in San Francisco, CA / Lives in Los Angeles, CA
• Tiona Nekkia McClodden / Born 1981 in Blytheville, AR / Lives in Philadelphia, PA
• Troy Michie / Born 1985 in El Paso, TX / Lives in Brooklyn, NY
• Joe Minter / Born 1943 in Birmingham, Al / Lives in Birmingham, AL
• Keegan Monaghan / Born 1986 in Evanston, IL / Lives in Montreal, Quebec
• Caroline Monnet / Born 1985 in Ottawa, Ontario / Lives in Montreal, Quebec
• Darius Clark Monroe / Born 1980 in Houston, TX / Lives in Brooklyn, NY
• Ragen Moss / Born 1978 in New York, NY / Lives in Los Angeles, CA
• Sahra Motalebi / Born 1979 in Birmingham, AL / Lives in New York, NY and Delaware County, NY
• Marlon Mullen / Born 1963 in Richmond, CA / Lives in Rodeo, CA
• Jeannette Mundt / Born 1982 in Princeton, NJ / Lives in Somerset, NJ
• Wangechi Mutu / Born 1972 in Nairobi, Kenya / Lives in Brooklyn, NY and Nairobi, Kenya
• Las Nietas de Nono (Lydela Nono and Michel Nono) / Established 2011 / Born 1979 and 1982 respectively in San Juan, PR / Both live in Carolina, PR
• Jenn Nkiru / Born 1987 in London, UK / Lives in London, UK
• Laura Ortman / Born 1973 in Whiteriver, AZ / Lives in Brooklyn, NY
• Jennifer Packer /Born 1984 in Philadelphia, PA / Lives in New York, NY
• Nibia pastrana Santiago / Born 1987 in Caguas, PR / Lives in San Juan, PR
• Elle Perez / Born 1989 in the Bronx, NY / Lives in Brooklyn, NY
• Pat Phillips / Born 1987 in Lakenheath, UK / Lives in Pineville, LA
• Gala Porras-Kim / Born 1984 in Bogota, Columbia / Lives in Los Angeles, CA
• Walter Price / Born 1989 in Macon, GA / Lives in Brooklyn, NY
• Carissa Rodriguez / Born 1970 in New York, NY / Lives in New York, NY
• Paul Mpagi Sepuya / Born 1982 in San Bernardino, CA / Lives in Los Angeles, CA
• Heji Shin / Born 1983 in Seoul, South Korea / Lives in New York, NY
• Diane Simpson / Born 1935 in Joliet, IL / Lives in Wilmette, IL
• Martine Syms / Born 1988 in Los Angeles, CA / Lives in Los Angeles, CA
• Kyle Thurman / Born 1986 in West Chester, PA / Lives in Brooklyn, NY
• Mariana Valencia / Born 1984 in Chicago, IL / Lives in Brooklyn, NY
• Agustina Woodgate / Born 1981 in Buenos Aires, Argentina / Lives in Miami, FL and Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art

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