Michael Gill Miller

My art career spans the last nine years in Los Angeles. It's a great place to be an artist because the culture is infused with many art forms. The pieces I have here on Saatchi are from a series that I started, quite by accident, in Sept. 2016. I paint with spray acrylic on canvas, and as I was working on a painting this day I saw some colors and linear shapes that had formed on the drop-cloth, from the overspray. I was instantly excited about what I saw. The idea of where my art would go next was immediately formed. This series, titled "Urban Summer"/ "Urban Winter" is really what I was meant to do as an artist. I paint my art outdoors. My primary influence is Southern California light and color. It's bright, but subtle - intense, yet relaxing. It's really kind of a paradox. On the canvas I combine the colors in proportions to create a painting that has a balanced tonality. This is my challenge for each painting, to create an art piece that has the right amount of warm and cool tones. I put colors next to each other that create an energy and play off each other, and on the same canvas I may put colors next to each other that are similar and let them flow and bleed into each other. It all depends on how much "energy" or "mellowness...

BFA Interior Design, Minor in Art, University of KS, Lawrence

2015
Loft at Liz’s Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Group Show
TV Pilot readings for FOX, West Hollywood, CA, My Art On Set
Sofitel Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA, Benefit, Mission Save Her
Gallery 825, Los Angeles Art Association, Group Exhibits
2014
Los Angeles Art Association, Membership Accepted
Gallery 825, Group Exhibits
Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, Group Exhibits
Sulkin-Secant Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Benefit, Whole Planet Foundation
Sulkin-Secant Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Group Exhibit
Artspace Warehouse, Group Exhibits
2013
Hale ArtSpace, Santa Monica, CA, Group Exhibit
Christofle Beverly Hills, Art in Window Display
Metro 417, Los Angeles, CA, Solo Exhibit
2012
Short Film for AFI, American Film Institute, PASTE, Painted Twelve Pieces As Focus For Film.
Artspace Warehouse, Group Exhibit
Artist’s Alley Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Group Show 2011
Santa Monica Art Studios, Group Exhibit
Gallery Godo, Glendale, CA, Group Exhibit 2010
James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Group Exhibit

Publications and Reviews:

Artslant Los Angeles, Salesroom Artist...