William Turner Gallery
JAY MARK JOHNSON: ÍSLENSKIR FOSSAR
Exhibition Dates: June 10 - August 12, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 10, 5-8pm
Greg Miller, Once Upon A Time, 2023, mixed media on canvas, 60" x 72”
These innovative, mixed-media paintings render familiar imagery and text into assemblages saturated with poignant slices of Americana. Nostalgic nods to ubiquitous tropes, such as billboards, pulp fictions, comic books, magazine adds and cinema marquees figure in fractions across the canvas. With carefully selected images he composes vignettes to articulate a vernacular about American life and the pervasive symbology of American consumer culture. Disparate objects and figures combine their relationship to one another, coalesce and become a singular subject. The exhibition’s title, suggests a fairytale and both the glamour and illusion which Hollywood exports.
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