Untitled (DM 1480)

Location: 250 Vesey Street, New York, NY 10281

This artwork is not open to the public

About the work

Dan Miller’s artwork is composed of obsessive overlays of words and imagery that often build to the point of abstraction. Each work contains a written record of Miller’s interests in hardware stores, lightbulbs, electrical sockets, and familiar people, yet only a few words are identifiable by the final stage. Largely nonverbal, Miller was taught at an early age to write words and numbers in order to communicate. This became the primary influence on his artistic practice: transforming text into graphic elements and employing an abstracted visual language as a tool of inquiry and expression.

Untitled (DM 1480), 2021

Acrylic and ink on paper

55.5 x 85.25 inches (141 x 216.5 cm)

About Dan Miller

Artist Dan Miller (b. 1961, Castro Valley, CA) works at the celebrated Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, CA. Founded in 1974, Creative Growth consists of a studio art program and a gallery that serves and supports mentally, physically, and developmentally disabled adult artists. Miller’s work was included in the 57th Venice Biennale in Italy (2017) and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; American Folk Art Museum, New York; and the Berkeley Art Museum; among others.