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!

Jay Maisel and Amon met up for a fireside chat deep in the heart of midtown Manhattan. In this episode they talk about light, color, gesture, Arthur Miller, cigars, buying the “The Bank” also known as 190 Bowery, shooting 65 years worth of photography, editing and a new documentary by Stephen Wilkes called Jay Myself.

Big Love and Shout Out to Susan Norget Film Promotion

Stay Up to Date with Jay Maisel

Website: https://www.jaymaisel.com/

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

See the Film, Jay Myself: Film Forum

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Show Notes

• JAY MYSELF -Official Trailer
• https://www.facebook.com/JayMyselfLLC/
• The Surreal Experience
• First Impressions
• Paul Simon – Kodachrome (Official Audio)
• Paul Simon– Songwriter-Singer and Actor
• 65 years of shooting
• Writing about the slides
• Fine arts & visual form & content
• Editing
• Arthur Meyerson Studio Exhibit: Jay Maisel  50 Years. – 2004 Exhibit
• Arthur MeyersonPhotographer
• Houston Fotofest
• Man with Headband
• 99 out of 100
• “Seeing it is the first step to getting it…” Jay Maisel Quote
• How to take a great picture?
• Discernment

• “If you are not your own severest critic then you are your own worst enemy” Jay Maisel Quote
• The difference between looking and seeing
• Disassembling 190 Bowery
• Drama vs. problem
• Stephen Wilkes– Director & Photographer
• Stephen Wilkes Website
• Bob Kato– Professor & Art Director
• Walk Slow
• “It is not how much ground you cover it is what you see, it is what you look at…” Jay Maisel Quote
• The Mercedes
• New Yorkers are very kind
• Almost New York
• “New York is Manhattan.” Jay Maisel Quote
• Rent in New York
• Easier to live in New York
• Milgrim Department Store
• Jack Klein- Broker
• Jasper Johns– American painter, sculptor and printmaker
• Robert Indiana– Artist
• Robert Rauschenberg– American painter and graphic artist
• Provident Loan Society
• Katz Delicatessen
• Do you have more like this?
• The best view of NY
• I never took it for granted
• St. Patrick’s Day 1966

• Capturing the voices of New York
• Life’s A Trip Cover of New York Said: Volume Two
• Follow your Dreams Cover of New York Said: Volume One
• Spring & Elizabeth
• Ghosts Amid the Graffiti By Steven Kuruntz October 15, 2006
• John (JT) Simpson – Theatrical Set designer
• Candles in the Windows
• Public Art Movement
• JR– artist
• I am a collector
• Space and a view
• Cigars
• Sunday Cigar – Coming up in the Fall
• Juan Sanchez – Key Grip #6 (First New York Said Episode)
• Miles Davis, Some Kind of Blue
• Davidoff-Yamasa
• Padrón Family Reserve No. 45 Maduro
• “It must move you! If it doesn’t excite you,
this thing that you see,
why in the world would it excite me?”
• “If it is worth shooting, it is worth shooting more than one frame.”
• Dr. Strangelove
• “If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.”
• Reading for 4 hours a day
• “What turns me on is kindness between people.”

• “I want to make the poem out of the evidence.” – Arthur Miller Quote
• Arthur Miller– American playwright, essayist
• Composition and Framing
• William Albert Allard– Photographer
• Twining
• Gesture
• “Learn to see what is actually in front of you.” – Jay Maisel Quote
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• Ayn Rand– Russian American Writer and philosopher

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