William Turner Gallery is pleased to announce the publication of two new texts, and a limited edition to accompany the “The Get Go”.

Greg Miller has been labeled a “neo-Pop” and “post-Pop” artist by such critics as Donald Kuspit and Peter Frank. Miller’s work draws from the Pop-cultural iconography of the 1950’s and 1960’s and the paintings often incorporate advertising images and text from billboards, hotel signs, romance novels, matchbook covers, ashtrays and neon. The artist utilizes oil, collage and resin to create paintings, which both evoke a sense of contemporary perspective and historical reference.

Accompanying this exhibition will be a hard cover book, an illustrated catalog, and a limited edition poster available through William Turner Gallery.  Please contact the gallery for purchase information. 

TO VIEW IMAGES OF GREG MILLER’S WORK FOLLOW THIS LINK

Curated by Tim Nye and Jacqueline Miro. This survey of art inspired by surf and beach culture will open to the public on July 1st at the three locations in Chelsea and will include work by most members of the group of Venice Beach artists known as Light and Space and Finish Fetish.

The show historically contextualizes beach culture and its poetic and freeing nature on the Beat Generation, Assemblage, Light and Space,  Finish Fetish, and early Pop Art. From this group of California artists, works by Wallace Berman, George Herms, Bruce Conner, Llyn Foulkes, Ed Kienholz, Billy Al Bengston, Tony Berlant, Ed Ruscha, Laddie John Dill, Dewain Valentine, Peter Alexander, John McCracken, Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman, and Helen Pashgian will be on view.

One of the main axes of the show is the obvious yet sensual relationship between Shapers and the Finish Fetish movement of the 60's. As the show focuses on two cities, L.A. and New York, it attempts to place the Ocean and its proximity to both cities as an antidote to a cacophony of quantities, speed and competing images. It also addresses how later generations of artists have looked back at assemblage, ephemera and graffiti as a way to either incorporate or reject the piercing presence of branding, advertisement, and information technology.

SWELL is a state of mind, but it is also our way of understanding distant forces, the beyond.