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J. Pindyck Miller has referred to himself as a constructivist. This seems both an apt and misleading label. On one hand Miller does deal in his work with abstract geometric forms. His pieces are clean, hard-edged, reductive, not representational in the traditional sense. In this quality and in their frank use of industrial non artistic materials they recall the efforts of any number of artists of the early-20th century. However, there are other aspects of Miller's work which seem to disassociate it from the hermetic rationalism of the true constructivists or from the impulse to break up and fragment the visible world that is so much a part of cubism. Miller retains in his work a certain level of naturalistic association.. ...A good part of Miller's art is about basic sensation-sculpture as object, a physical presence that shares our space. Miller loves machines and fine craftsmanship. He is excited by a beautifully machined tool or piece of farm equipment. He likes the practical reality of such objects. But Miller is also an idealist, a man inspired by heroic ambition and by uncompromising standards. He is a serious man who reflects on the human condition and who attempts in a certain way to understand something of man's place in the universe and to express this through his art. He has spoken of the Wright Brothers, of Eli Whitney, and Robert Fulton as personal heros--men who have had the skill and imagination to create something new that was both visionary and practical. Like all good romantics, Miller has his head in the clouds and his feet on the ground. Miller's romanticism sets him apart from many of the more cynical artists of his generation. he does not follow fashion, deliberately avoiding it just as he does eye-catching gimmicks and tricks. Miller lives in the woods near Brewster, New York, at a comfortable distance from the distractions of the New York City art scene. He does this to retain perspective as he works at an art that seeks to balance paradoxical alternatives: abstract-referential, physical-spiritual, practical-ideal, modern-universal. Miller believes in traditional abstraction as a means toward synthesis. Confronted with a chaotic universe he achieves in his work a pattern and consistency. WIlliam Hennessey, Director Vassar College Art Gallery 1979-1981 Other work by the artist may be viewed by going to the Sculptors Guild website at www.sculptorsguild.org. |
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born: New York, NY Education: 1960-1961 Brooklyn Museum School of Art 1960 Middlebury College 1954 Alexander Archipenko School & Studio Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2003 The Studio Armonk NY 2000 2000 1997 1997, 1995, 1993, 1991,
1989, 1986, 1984 1995 1992 1993 1989 Evergreen Gallery Pawling NY 1988, 1985 1987, 1981 1986, 1975, 1967 1979 Bethel Gallery Bethel CT 1978 University Art Gallery SUNY Albany Albany NY 1983 Alan Brown Gallery Hartsdale NY 1972 Phoenix Gallery New York NY Selected Group Exhibitions: 2005-2006 Winter Solstice IV The Studio/The Arts Exchange Armonk/White Plains NY Curator: Tedd Stratis 2002 The Object of Art NWCA Mt. Kisco NY 2001 Three at The Studio: From the Painter's Perspective The Studio Armonk NY
The Art Collector San Diego CA 1996 UConn Invitational
Sculpture Show 1995 1999-1995 Stamford Center for the Arts Rich Forum Stamford CT 1990 Retrospective Gallery La Jolla CA 1988, 1987 Chicago International Art Expo Maxwell Davidson Gallery Chicago IL 1985-1999 Sound Shore Gallery New York and Conneticut 1989, 1984, 1982 Vassar College Art Gallery Poughkeepsie NY 1989-1967 Katonah Gallery Katonah NY 1976 Neuberger Museum of Art SUNY Purchase Purchase NY 1975 1975 Thorne Gallery Keene State College Keene NH 1975 Gruenebaum Gallery New York NY 1974 Southeast Museum Brewster NY 1968 Rose Fried Gallery New York NY Selected Collections: Bastion Steel New York NY Byck Gallery Louisville KY Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Vassar College Poughkeepsie NY Phibro, Inc. Westport CT Merrion Investors Westfield NJ
Middlebury College Museum Carl Steele, Inc. E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. Pepsico, Inc.
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