Greg Miller grew up in '50s– and '60s–era Sacramento, inspired by the rush of billboards, posters, ads and text that shaped the flat delta landscapes and pulp fiction images of his youth. Layer upon layer of images — one billboard or poster slapped over the next — formed a sort of cultural geology, where the passage of time might jumble, conceal and reveal an archeology of images, their stories hidden and hinted at in the remaining fragments.
Labeled a “neo-Pop” and “post-Pop” artist by such critics as Donald Kuspit and Peter Frank, Miller does indeed draw from pop cultural imagery that saturated American consciousness during the 1950s and 1960s. It was a time when advertising and text became indelibly encrypted into our experience of everyday life. Life as “advertised” and life as “lived” became insuperably intertwined on the pages of LIFE and LOOK magazines, on television shows, commercials, billboards, hotel signs, romance novels and even matchbook covers as never before. Miller’s paintings excavate this imagery and often appear as unreconstructed fragments of these signs, drips, patterns and phrases.
Miller’s work is featured in numerous museum and private collections, including those of the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation and Charles Saatchi Foundation.
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(Biography provided by William Turner Gallery)
Brooks (Surfer)_Greg Miller_Acrylic/Collage_Figurative/Swimmer/Waterscape
By Greg Miller
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
GREG MILLER "Brooks" Acrylic, Collage on Panel 24 x 36 in. Drawing from the diverse cultural and geographic makeup of his Californian roots, Greg Miller explores his relationship wi...
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Panel
Mixed Media, Collage, Pop Art, Water, Swimmer Figurative, Holiday by Greg Miller
By Greg Miller
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
GREG MILLER "Holiday" Acrylic, Collage on Canvas 48 x 48 in. Drawing from the diverse cultural and geographic makeup of his Californian roots, Greg Miller explores his relationship...
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Mixed Media, Collage, Graphic, Pop Art, Blue Water Swimmer, Dream by Greg Miller
By Greg Miller
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
GREG MILLER "Dream" Acrylic, Collage on Canvas 48 x 48 in. Drawing from the diverse cultural and geographic makeup of his Californian roots, Greg Miller explores his relationship w...
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Wonder Palms_Greg Miller_Acrylic/Collage/Panel_Text/Swimmer
By Greg Miller
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
GREG MILLER "Wonder Palms" Acrylic, Collage on Panel 24 x 60 in. Drawing from the diverse cultural and geographic makeup of his Californian roots, Greg Miller explores his relation...
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Panel
Mixed Media, Collage, Swimmer, Text, Blue, Pop Art, Love Swimmer by Greg Miller
By Greg Miller
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
GREG MILLER "Love Swimmer" Acrylic, Collage on Canvas 24 x 60 in. Drawing from the diverse cultural and geographic makeup of his Californian roots, Greg Miller explores his relatio...
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Swimmer, Collage, Female Figure & Text, Pop Art, Wonder by Greg Miller
By Greg Miller
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
GREG MILLER "Wonder" Acrylic, Collage on Canvas 48 x 48 in. Drawing from the diverse cultural and geographic makeup of his Californian roots, Greg Miller explores his relationship ...
Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Slide Right (Paper)" figurative oil painting of swimmer underwater red swimsuit
By Carol Bennett
Located in Edgartown, MA
"I throw myself into the water almost every day- it grounds me, the body floats and the mind drifts. The "Swimmer series" has followed me over the years, resurfacing and evolving. Pr...
Oil, Paper
THE SWIMMER– Original Painting by Carole Grandgirard 2022
By Carole Grandgirard
Located in Antwerp, BE
LA PLONGEUSE– Original Painting by Carole Grandgirard LA PLONGEUSE the swimmer, is an original oil painting by French artist Carole Grandgirard. She created this artwork in 2022. T...
Paint
"See Water (bottles)", swimmer, seas, figurative painting, underwater reflection
By Carol Bennett
Located in Edgartown, MA
"See Water (bottles)" is a luminous oil on wood panel painting by Carol Bennett. It captures the quiet magic of a figure suspended just beneath the water's surface, where light, mov...
Oil, Wood Panel
Aquatic, drawing and collage of female figure in water with text, maps, mermaid
By Audrey Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These collages were created first in the presence of a model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone, furiously tearing and pasting images from magazines, v...
Mixed Media, Archival Paper
"In the Sea", Contemporary, Ocean, Men, Woman, Acrylic, Mixed Media Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “In the Sea” is a 47.75 x 29.5 x 1.5 inch acrylic painting with collage on canvas that is an expressive depiction of men and women in the ocean. The freely brushed blue ...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"MV Spring" abstract figurative oil painting swimmer underwater with orange
By Carol Bennett
Located in Edgartown, MA
"I throw myself into the water almost every day- it grounds me, the body floats and the mind drifts. The "Swimmer series" has followed me over the years, resurfacing and evolving. Pr...
Mixed Media, Cardboard
