ART MILLER
TRANSFORMED
SHERRY LEEDY CONTEMPORARY ART
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ART MILLER Transformed
November 4th- December 17th, 2016
“In recent years, I’ve noticed an odd marriage (both metaphysical and substantive) between America’s Christian churches and American commerce. Structures originally designed and built as commercial buildings—retail, office, and industrial—are increasingly re-purposed and transformed into church sanctuaries. Additionally, existing church steeples may now be transformed into functioning cell towers, or sometimes, cell towers, fabricated in the form of a cross, are installed upon church grounds, often towering over an existing cross atop a building’s steeple.” –Art Miller Art Miller has been creating intelligent and insightful photographs for over thirty years. A keen observer of contemporary life, Miller’s meticulously crafted photographs reveal a ubiquitous landscape, clearly in view but easily overlooked. In Transformed, Miller shows us, in sunny, stark, minimal compositions, commercial architecture that has been retrofitted with a function, which at first glance, seems to fit like a bad suit. Former grocery stores and shopping malls are now churches complete with roomy parking lots. To complete the religious/commercial transformation, camouflaged cell phone towers often masquerade as steeples and bell towers. For the observer, the starkly beautiful images in Art Miller’s series Transformed, reveal a thought provoking American cultural phenomenon worthy of a second look and ongoing reflection. Art Miller’s work is in multiple collections like Sprint Nextel Corporation World Headquarters, Overland Park, Kansas, American Century Investors Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas, DST Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri.
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Cell Tower, Mount Olive Evangelical Lutheran Church and School, Overland Park, Kansas, 2015 Archival pigment print 24� x 34�
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Faith Church, (former light industrial building), Earth City, Missouri, 2014 Archival pigment print 24� x 34�
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Cell Tower, Immanuel Baptist Church, Kansas City, Kansas, 2015 Archival pigment print 24” x 34”
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Faith Deliverance Family Worship Center, Church of God in Christ, (former strip mall with Kroger Grocery), Kansas City, Kansas, 2014 Archival pigment print 24� x 34�
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Cell Tower, Judson Baptist Church, Kansas City, Kansas, 2015 Archival pigment print 24” x 34”
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Memorial Missionary Baptist Church, (former K-Mart), Grandview Missouri, 2008 Archival pigment print 24� x 34�
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Desert Spring Church, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2016 Archival pigment print 24” x 34”
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Cell Tower, Tri-City Baptist Church, Independence, Missouri, 2016 Archival pigment print 24� x 34�
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