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Unexpected Expedition

60″ x 40″, acrylic on canvas, 2/10/2017

Here’s my latest mental landscape.

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Joy & Wonder GPAA

My painting Improv Song was selected to be included in the Grosse Pointe Artists Association’s Holiday exhibition “Joy & Wonder” which opens Tuesday, Dec. 13th, 6:30 – 8 p.m., at the Grosse Pointe War Memorial.

Members of the Grosse Pointe South Choir will entertain.

I am asking $900 for Improv Song. If you’re interested in purchasing it, but can’t make the opening, let me know.

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Woodgrain and Gradients

Improv Song, diptych, 48″ x 23.875″ x .5″, acrylic on plywood, completed February, 2016

© Steve Miller 2016

My new painting on plywood is a diptych which builds off of the woodgrain landscape series. The woodgrain still serves as compositional parameters. However, my intent is to work more graphically pushing the work further away from representation. Instead of using earth tones to describe a landscape, I am referring back to my bolder color palette; once again playing with bright gradients, which are counter directional. Sanding off layers of color and reapplying them creates depth in a new way for me. The natural wood tones become embroidered between broken color. The intent is to create a sense of rhythm and playfulness for the viewer. For me, working within self-imposed rules, trusting in an organic genesis, and sometimes ignoring traditional modes of representing forms in space, I hope to discover something new about painting.

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abstract landscapes

New Woodgrain Landscapes

Invented landscape paintings by Steve Miller based on the woodgrain of a piece of birch plywood.