FOREVER FORGETTING

About the Exhibition

This exhibition is a meditation on the idea that like space and time, information and matter are synonymous. We may then, imagine that the laws of nature, which govern the slow slide to disorganization, are present in the tendencies of us all.  Everything is in a process of forgetting.  Whether it’s in the expansion of stars from a center, or lost lessons of the past- the spirals align. It is my question that our nature, no matter how destructive, is in tune with the flow this of energy. This exhibition imagines a future-scape where its inhabitants are in a futile effort to rescue information only to misinterpret it. This deteriorating plaster landscape, and the objects within, represents the persistent instability of knowledge. By setting semi-familiar objects against a crumbling background, it is my intention to draw associations between the fragility of thought and the shifting material world. 

About the Artist

Chris Miller was born in Hilo, Hawaii in 1977. He received a BFA from The Pennsylvania State University and an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He currently manages the 3D Foundation courses and teaches ceramics in the School of Art at California State University, Long Beach. Chris’s diverse practice centers on many artistic processes and years of material research. The resulting works advance a heavily abstracted image while exposing the real properties of materials. Through the collision of figurative, animal, celestial or even atomic metaphors and the very tangible experience of material itself, a range of cognitive spaces can be engaged. The dialogue between what is there and what is imagined allows the work to question our preconceived notions of beauty, knowledge, and time.