Thereafter > Steven Millar "Thereafter"
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STEVEN MILLAR
Thereafter
March 20 - May 13, 2015 (Extended through June 26, 2015)Opening & Artist Reception: Friday, March 20, 6-8pm
Gallery Geranmayeh is pleased to present "Thereafter," the gallery's first solo exhibition of works by New York based artist Steven Millar. The exhibition features Millar's works from recent series produced in tandem, including sculptures, photographs, and an artist's book.Millar has described his work as exploring themes of intersection: of the built world, society, and nature; home and community; memory and loss. In "Thereafter," Millar maintains a focus on the connection between memory and place, and the central ideas of time, longing, and displacement. The work investigates commemoration and references various forms of memorial markers -stones with metal plaques that honor a place, event, or vista.Millar's sculptures give tangible form to the evanescent experience of memory as they embody that which is past or lost. The sculptures present an uncertain form of memento mori, memorialization in which the object of commemoration remains unknown. In the end, one feels that these sculptures bear witness to a more universalized state of absence and loss.The photographs, which serve as extensions of his sculptural pieces, convey the sense of mystery as well. The images show forms similar to those in Millar's sculptures, capturing not the details, but rather some essence of the forms and how they exist in time.Although directly referencing an individual, Millar's artist's book is no less evocative. Lyrical and suffused with gentleness, the book acts as a memorial to a life that the artist knew only secondhand through stories, photographs, and objects left behind.Image: Marriage Reliquary 2015, archival inkjet print image 10 ” h x 6 3/4” w framed 11 1/8” h x 7 3/4” w
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Temporary Monuments 2015
Suite of twenty framed archival inkjet prints each 14 1/4” h x 11 1/4” w, grid 63” h x 64 1/4” w -
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Reliquary 2015
Letterpress, archival inkjet prints, and collage on Japanese and German papers, hand - bound in Japanese paper, buckram covered box