43 paintings?, where have we been? Slinging paint or something like that. Thing of the day? An Organ Thing of The Day? How about some new Harland Miller? There’s something very heart-warming about an old Penguin paperback book. Hang Up gallery have just brought this health and safety issue to our attention
“Harland Miller is both a writer and an artist, practising both roles in Europe and America. After living and exhibiting in New York, Berlin and New Orleans during the 80s and 90s, Miller achieved critical acclaim with his debut novel, ‘Slow down Arthur, Stick to Thirty’ (2000); the story of a kid who travels around northern England with a David Bowie impersonator; In the same year he published a small novella, First I was Afraid, I was Petrified, based on the true story of a female relative with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, discovered when Miller came across a box full of Polaroid images she had taken of the knobs of a cooker. In 2001 Miller produced a series of paintings based of the dust jackets of Penguin books. By combining the motif inherent in the Penguin book, Miller found a way to marry aspects of Pop Art, abstraction and figurative painting at once, with his writer’s love of text. The ensuing images are humorous, sardonic and nostalgic at the same time, while the painting style hints at the dog-eared, scuffed covers of the Penguin classics themselves. Miller continues to create work in this vein, expanding the book covers to include his own phrases, some hilarious and absurd, others with a lush melancholy…..”
And while you’re here enjoying a digital image of one of Harland Miller’s beautifully painted book covers, here’s another 43 paintings that have passed thorough these pages in recent times. Well maybe not 43 and maybe not all paintings, near enough 43 though, maybe a few more, mostly paintings though… Do like a bit of Mr Miller..
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- Harland Miller – Killing Bondage
- Harland Miller
- Harland Miller
- FRIEZE 2017, London – Thomas Scheibitz
- FRIEZE 2017, London – Thomas Scheibitz
- FRIEZE 2017, London – Thomas Scheibitz
- Yves Beaumont: Paintskips at Studio1.1, Redchurch St, London
- Yves Beaumont: Paintskips at Studio1.1, Redchurch St, London
- Eric Cantona – from his notebook
- Chisenhale Open Studios, East London, October 2017 – Kevin Harrison
- Josh kline – Civil Was at Modern Art, Vyner Street, East London, Oct 2017,
- Josh kline – Civil Was at Modern Art, Vyner Street, East London, Oct 2017,
- Eoin at BSMT Space, London, Oct 2017
- Eoin at BSMT Space, London, Oct 2017
- Piotr Uklański at Frieze 2017, London
- Piotr Uklański at Frieze 2017, London
- Frieze 2017, London, – Carolee Schneemann, P.P,O.W Gallery, New York
- Frieze 2017, London, – Carolee Schneemann, P.P,O.W Gallery, New York
- FRIEZE 2017, London – Jonathan Meese
- IAN KUALI’I at Moniker Art Fair, London 2017
- IAN KUALI’I at Moniker Art Fair, London 2017
- IAN KUALI’I at Moniker Art Fair, London 2017
- FRIEZE 2017, London, Eric N.Mack
- FRIEZE 2017, London, Eric N.Mack
- FRIEZE 2017, London, Eric N.Mack
- FRIEZE 2017, London.
- Sara Berman, Sluice Biennial, Morning Lane, Hackney, East London, October 2017
- Helen Lindon, Folkestone, 2017
- Helen Lindon, Folkestone, 2017
- Henry Cockburn, Lilford Gallery basement, Folkestone
- Henry Cockburn, Lilford Gallery basement, Folkestone
- NORMAN ACKROYD at Eames Gallery, Bermondsey, London SE1, Sept 2017.
- NORMAN ACKROYD at Eames Gallery, Bermondsey, London SE1, Sept 2017.
- NORMAN ACKROYD at Eames Gallery, Bermondsey, London SE1, Sept 2017.
- 164: The accidental marks left after a Paul Insect piece weathers (Bethnal Green, 2017)
- 163; The accidental marks left after a Paul Insect piece weathers (Bethnal Green, 2017)
- 165: The accidental marks left after a Paul Insect piece weathers (Bethnal Green, 2017)
- MAT HUMPHREY – It Comes in Waves at New Art Projects, Hackney, November 2017
- Martello Street Studios open day November 2017 – Zoe Benbow
- Martello Street Studios open day November 2017 – Zoe Benbow
- Martello Street Studios open day November 2017 – Zoe Benbow
- The street, East London…. not forgotten
- Chisenhale Open Studios, East London, October 2017 – Kevin Dunbar
- Chisenhale Open Studios, East London, October 2017 – Kevin Dunbar
- Chisenhale Open Studios, East London, October 2017 – Kevin Dunbar
- Chisenhale Open Studios, East London, October 2017 – Alicia Paz
- Chisenhale Open Studios, East London, October 2017 – Alicia Paz
- Chisenhale Open Studios, East London, October 2017 – Lee Maelzer
- Chisenhale Open Studios, East London, October 2017 – Lee Maelzer
- Chisenhale Open Studios, East London, October 2017 – Lee Maelzer
- Chisenhale Open Studios, East London, October 2017, Di Livey
- Chisenhale Open Studios, East London, October 2017, Di Livey
- Helen Plumb, a still from her painterly Knightstown video
- Helen Plumb, a still from her painterly Knightstown video
- Helen Plumb, a still from her painterly Knightstown video
- David Shillinglaw – Keep yourself to yourself. Keep your selfie to your selfie
- DAVID SHILLINGLAW “Capital Chaos” (2015)
- Eric Cantona – from his notebook
- Rose Wylie, Queen with Pansies (Dots), 2016
- Canal wall, Hackney, East London, November 2017
- Canal wall, Hackney, East London, November 2017
- Canal wall, Hackney, East London, November 2017
- Harland Miller
- Harland Miller
- Harland Miller
- Harland Miller
- 118: Artist: EMMA HARVEY, Title: Untitled No8 (2017), 55cm, Oil on board.
- Emma V Harvey – Untitled No9
- 20: Artist: EMMA HARVEY, Untitled (6) Oil on board, 55cm
- Sam Hacking – Crossing the Open Place at A-Side B-Side, Hackney, Nov 2017
- Sam Hacking – Crossing the Open Place at A-Side B-Side, Hackney, Nov 2017
- Oust
- Mario Dubsky at Chelsea Space, London, Oct 2017
- Mario Dubsky at Chelsea Space, London, Oct 2017
- Mario Dubsky at Chelsea Space, London, Oct 2017
- Mario Dubsky at Chelsea Space, London, Oct 2017
- Mario Dubsky at Chelsea Space, London, Oct 2017
- Mario Dubsky at Chelsea Space, London, Oct 2017
- Martello Street Studios open day November 2017 – Walid Sati
- Chisenhale Open Studios, East London, October 2017 – Alicia Paz
- FRIEZE 2017, London – Sex Work, Dorothy Iannone.
- FRIEZE 2017, London – Sex Work, Dorothy Iannone.
- Savant, East London, July 2017
- Oust – The street, East London, July 2017