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I. Magnin Tie Box
This trio of painted resin sculptures derives from three department stores that, at different points in time, occupied the same Art Deco building in Los Angeles: Bullocks, Bullocks Wilshire, and I. Magnin. The artist has taken the gift box's original decorative pattern and lifted it into a relief sculpture by way of careful 3D modeling, printing, and painting. Although these three stores did not coexist, Miller's sculptures stage a scene where they all share the same gift box design, offering the viewer an experience of different historical moments collapsing into one.
Nicolas G. Miller addresses the temporality of both sculpture and fashion by staging encounters with the historicity of sculpture and its refraction through the prism of his hometown, Los Angeles. Miller uses state-of-the-art digital 3D sculpting and printing to produce intricate artworks in various materials, including bronze and painted resin. His art often references the cyclical return of fashions while questioning the effects of technology on our shared search for a meaningful past.
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Nicolas G. Miller addresses the temporality of both sculpture and fashion by staging encounters with the historicity of sculpture and its refraction through the prism of his hometown, Los Angeles. Miller uses state-of-the-art digital 3D sculpting and printing to produce intricate artworks in various materials, including bronze and painted resin. He is keenly interested in the resurgence of techniques such as bas-relief and sculptural modeling. Miller's artworks often reference the cyclical return of fashions while questioning the effects of technology on our shared search for a meaningful past.
Nicolas G. Miller was born in 1984 in Honolulu, Hawaii, and lives in Los Angeles, CA. Miller received an MFA from the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine in Irvine, CA (2019).
He has mounted recent solo and two-person exhibitions at Timeshare in Los Angeles, CA (2024); Castle Gallery in Los Angeles, CA (2023); and SOLDES in Los Angeles, CA (2021).
Miller has participated in group exhibitions at SOLDES in Los Angeles, CA (2023) and Ben Hunter Gallery in London, UK (2022).
