IT GOES WHERE IT MUST

About the Exhibition

“This current body of work uses the vessel as a framework and recognizable symbolic form that can be built, acted upon, and filled. My wide range of physical interactions with clay generates and records a conversation between the material’s state, my own flow state, expressive modes, and deliberate decisions. Gestures oscillate between unconscious and considered as each work is built and unbuilt, slathered and scraped, mucked upon and torn, splattered and smashed. The architecture of the vessels and their contents become a body to push against, and my movements in the studio protest civilized behaviors and aesthetics.

The vessels are elemental, vestiges of something important that has been lost. Risk and failure drive the process forward, and each work becomes what it needs to become, whether excessive or base. My intention is to engage and disrupt the deep historical territory of the ceramic vessel; the results are impolite and unapologetic.” 

-Chris Miller

About the Artist

Chris Miller (@millermillmill) is a multi-disciplinary artist who works mainly with ceramics. After earning an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005 Miller has held numerous teaching positions and exhibited nationally. He is currently an Associate Professor of Art at the California State University, Long Beach.