SAMUEL LYNNE GALLERIES ART | BASEL MIAMI 2015
JD MILLER
JD Miller’s paintings engage with the senses in a unique way. Trained as a musician and a sculptor, Miller has an awareness of how color, texture, and shape can communicate in a multifaceted language that shatters the viewer’s expectations of paint. Besides the foundation his previous artistic mediums provided, Miller’s visual style was heavily influenced by the works of cartoon masters Walt Disney and Walter Lantz, and by the art of the Impressionist and Expressionist painters. From the cartoonists, he took vibrant colors and deft lines, and from the Impressionists, their representations of the entire envelope of light, the things they felt, and the way a scene surrounded them. Miller founded the Reflectionist school in October 2004, a group of painters who create art that mirrors holographically the positive power of life and the universe. Their hallmark is Miller’s 3-D oil painting technique, which combines chromatic expression with a sculptor’s application of paint to create multidimensional images on canvas. Miller is represented in numerous galleries and museums throughout the United States and is involved with multiple educational and charitable organizations. He received the Dallas Jesuit Museum’s 2009 Artist of the Year Award, the Fashion Group International 2008 Rising Star Award, and the distinction of being the Official Artist for the 40th Anniversary of Shakespeare Dallas. Currently based in Dallas, Texas, Miller’s extensive travels throughout the U.S. continue to influence his subject matter and style – from Impressionist landscapes to abstract expressions of the spirit. Page | 2
JD Miller Miami Twilight 3D Oil on Canvas 60 x 48 inches
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JD Miller Poseidon’s Playground 3D Oil on Canvas 36 x 84 inches
Crossroads 3-D Oil on Canvas 48” x 36” Page | 6
JD Miller Cielo Violeta 3D Oil on Canvas 48 x 48 inches
JD Miller Twin Galaxies II 3D Oil on Canvas 48 x 48 inches
JD Miller Labyrinth 3D Oil on Canvas 48 x 48 inches
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JD Miller Emerald Cavern 3D Oil on Canvas 40 x 40 inches
JD Miller Cobalt Melody 3D Oil on Canvas 36 x 48 inches
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JD Miller Poseidon’s Playground 3D Oil on Canvas 40 x 40 inches
JD Miller Timeless Rings 3D Oil on Canvas 48 x 48 inches
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JD Miller Sunrise in Paris 3D Oil on Canvas 48 x 48 inches
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JD Miller Inversion Triptych 3D Oil on Canvas 36 x 98 inches
JD Miller Windows of Poseidon I, II, & III 3D Oil on Canvas 36 x 36 inches each
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JD Miller Power of Now II 3D Oil on Canvas 36 x 36 inches
JD Miller Super Curl 3D Oil on Canvas 36 x 36 inches
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JD Miller Poseidon’s Playground 3D Oil on Canvas 48 x 48 inches
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JD Miller Dante’s Inferno 3D Oil on Canvas 60 x 36 inches
JD Miller Sky Hawk 3D Oil on Canvas 60 x 36 inches
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JD Miller Mount Washington Valley 3D Oil on Canvas 40 x 30 inches
JD Miller Ode to Latour 3D Oil on Canvas 40 x 40 inches
LEA FISHER Lea Fisher first came into painting for its therapeutic value. She studied English at Sam Houston State University, earned a second degree in Psychology at the University of North Texas, and while obtaining her Master’s in counseling she discovered the positive healing powers of painting as a creative outlet. Fisher paints dramatic compositions with an often ethereal quality. Delicate feathering and sculpted oil techniques characterize her paintings. Fisher creates artwork that is different and surprising, eager to turn her audience’s expectations upside-down. Her bold compositions captivate the eye with rich and vivid layers of elegant color palettes. They emulate adventure, raw emotion, and an unparalleled flow of consciousness. With her variety of techniques and an eye for composition, Fisher creates an illusion of solidity and weightlessness that both grounds the viewer and allows his or her mind to float amongst Fisher’s paintings, analyzing their layered abstractions. Fisher is the recent winner of Artist Favorite, Collaborative Favorite, and Overall Favorite for her submissions in the illustrious Artist v Architect Competition in November 2014. Her paintings have been acquired by prominent art patrons and placed in notable collections throughout the country. Fisher currently resides in and works out of her hometown of Dallas, Texas. Page | 24
Lea Fisher Twinkled Mixed Media 36 x 36 inches
Lea Fisher Dreaming in Blue 3D Oil on Canvas 36 x 36 inches
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Lea Fisher Urban Legend 3D Oil on Canvas 48 x 48 inches
Lea Fisher Glitteration Mixed Media 36 x 36 inches
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Lea Fisher Crystal Palace Mixed Media 40 x 40 inches
Lea Fisher Fortunata 3D Oil on Canvas 48 x 48 inches
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Lea Fisher Symbolism 3D Oil on Canvas 72 x 48 inches
Lea Fisher Valley of the Sun 3D Oil on Canvas 48 x 48 inches
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Lea Fisher St. Tropez 3D Oil on Canvas 48 x 36 inches
Lea Fisher Simplicity 3D Oil on Canvas 48 x 48 inches
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Lea Fisher Eternal Emerald 3D Oil on Canvas 48 x 48 inches
Lea Fisher Shadow Master 3D Oil on Canvas 60 x 60 inches
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Lea Fisher Inner Balance 3D Oil on Canvas 72 x 60 inches
TOM HOLLAND
Born in Seattle, Washington, in 1936, Tom Holland attended the University of California at Berkeley before traveling to Santiago, Chile, on a Fulbright Grant. Upon his return to Berkeley, he began teaching at the San Francisco Art Institute, UCLA, and Cal Berkeley. Holland’s illustrious career has garnered critical acclaim for the last half century. Tom Holland describes his creative process as one that is strongly subliminal and subconscious. He relies on the prospect of surprise to get him into the studio everyday. He begins by cutting and shaping thin pieces of metal, then riveting them to sheets of aluminum or fiberglass, and then building up depth, light, reflection, and color through his uniquely developed technique of epoxy paint application. His elaborate process creates visually dynamic “canvases” – wall installations, freestanding and hanging sculptural forms. In addition to these paintings in his preferred media, Holland also works with paper, marble, and copper. His paintings are mysterious, powerful, captivating – the stuff our dreams are made of. Holland is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Sculpture Grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is represented in major museums throughout the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Seattle Art Museum; the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno; the St. Louis Museum of Art; and the Chicago Art Institute. His work can also be found in a number of private collections such as the Anderson Collection, Charles Schwab Company, Mayfield Fund, Transamerica Corporation, World Savings, Sandler Family Supporting Foundation, Duker Collection, and Di Rosa Collections. He now works out of his downtown Berkeley studio full-time. Page | 38
Tom Holland Logg Epoxy on Fiberglass 48 x 60 x 3.5 inches
Tom Holland Summer Lake 1 Epoxy on Aluminum 50 x 60 x 3 inches
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ROBERT HUDSON The work of Robert Hudson can only be described as a tour-de-force in the arena of Assemblage Art. He has been strongly associated with the movement since the late fifties and early sixties, along with his contemporaries, William Wiley and Richard Shaw. Working in a diverse array of mediums, Hudson has produced a large body of paintings, drawings, ceramic pieces and his famous poly-chrome steel sculptures, in a career that continues to evolve over five decades of creativity and has changed the face of mixed media art. Influenced by Picasso, Miro, Duchamp, and Man Ray, Hudson creates works of art that are imbued with visual, intellectual, and sensual pleasure. No matter the medium, the artworks of Robert Hudson are characterized by a raucous visual approach, as the artist carefully juxtaposes fabricated and found objects into pieces that burst with his signature wit, color, and geometric forms. Born in 1938 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and growing up inspired by the rural upbringing of the Pacific Northwest, Hudson garnered a deep-rooted admiration and respect for Native American culture and the natural environment, which manifests itself in many of his sculptures. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in 1961 and his Masters in Fine Arts in 1963 from the San Francisco Art Institute, Hudson went on to be awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has held teaching positions at the San Francisco Art Institute and the University of California, Berkeley. While Hudson’s sculptures are often densely composed and may seem to have been thrown together chaotically, Peter Frank of Art Ltd. notes that “there is so much method to Hudson’s madness that we come to understand that the method is the madness, a compulsion toward artifying mundane objects while leaving them anchored in the everyday.” Robert Hudson’s assemblages are found in the most prestigious and influential museums in the world, including the National Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the de Young Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
Robert Hudson Bar Mixed Media 27 x 24 x 17 inches
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Robert Hudson Standing Figure Mixed Media 65 x 25 x 24 inches
WILLIAM T. WILEY William T. Wiley’s art responds to the serious challenges and silly palaver of our American and global culture. Approaching the world around him with deep empathy for social injustice, Wiley’s hand, wit, and sharp sense of the absurd unfold our stories in works of art. Joann Moser, Senior Curator of his 2009 exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, What’s It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect, wrote “Wiley has created a body of work that anticipated such important developments as installation art, audience participation, a revival of interest in drawing, as well as the use of humor and language as significant aspects of contemporary art.” His often-satirical treatment of current events sets handwritten verse, awful puns, metaphysical symbols, and found objects into masterly paintings, watercolors, prints, drawings, and sculptural constructions. In the1960s and early 70s Wiley was a founding leader of the Funk Art movement in San Francisco that made fun of the pompous conventions of East Coast art—and everything else— while reflecting the revolutionary political and social upheavals of the time. Art from this period has recently garnered attention in Europe with a group exhibition at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany, and a solo Wiley show at the Marconi Foundation in Milan, Italy. Other bodies of work have been based on images by Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, alchemy, old-fashioned children’s slates, and the British cartoon character Punch. Wiley and his alter-ego, Mr. Unatural, have challenged Picasso, Johns, and art critics in general. His works are playful, paradoxical, and full of color. With titles like Time Makes Since, and Post Modern Landscape & the Pressure of Just Us, his ambiguous narratives can be interpreted in various ways. Perhaps influenced by his long respect for Taoism and Zen Buddhism, Wiley’s paintings in recent years are black and white abstractions, often punctuated by small figurative drawings inserted into one or two corners. This metaphysical work—elegant, rhythmic, formal, and elemental—may be experienced in the belly while simultaneously reaching transcendence. William T. Wiley’s work can be found in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Legion of Honor, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Denver Art Museum; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Honolulu Museum of Art; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Stedelijk van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands. Page | 44
William T. Wiley Color Barrier Acrylic & Charcoal Graphite on Canvas 60 x 79 inches
William T. Wiley King Minus at the Gorge US & a Bridge Too Short Acrylic & Charcoal on Canvas 59 x 72 inches
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William T. Wiley Fanny & Freddie Acrylic & Charcoal on Canvas 60 x 67 inches
RICK LAZES
Artist, inventor, and entrepreneur, Rick Lazes truly embodies the scope and nature of a “Renaissance Man.” A North Carolina native, Lazes’ sculptures are exhibited in galleries and collections across the country. While making a name for himself as a successful sculptor, Lazes simultaneously has developed and opened two impressive arts and entertainment complexes in North Carolina and West Virginia, each called The Music Factory. In 2016, the newest Music Factory is slated to open in Irving, Texas. The 500,000 square foot project will amplify the Metroplex’s cultural milieu and will include an outdoor amphitheater operated by Live Nation the largest concert producer in the world, 15 restaurants, a movie theater, bowling alley and 6 live music clubs. Lazes is currently working on two series: The World is Bending created out of steam bent hardwoods and Liquid Art, which are reverse painted on melted Plexiglas. While the two mediums are relatively dissimilar the sensuous shapes are comparable in their fluid elegance. Utilizing a patented technique of steam bending, Lazes is able to altar the elemental nature of wood in order to bend the viewer’s perception of reality into a new shape and conception of his creation. Exploring the fusion between materiality and composition, Lazes creates thought-provoking sculptures out of a variety of media, including melted plexiglass, wood, plaster, stainless steel, and marble. Lazes’ sculptures visually demonstrate the complexities of nature through a juxtaposition of fluid form and unconventional techniques. He morphs both natural and synthetic elements to create sculptures that challenge the conventionality of his chosen media. Page | 48
Rick Lazes Emerge Reverse Painted on Hand Molded Acrylic Panels 54 x 36 x 36 inches
Rick Lazes Blossom Reverse Painted on Hand Molded Acrylic Panels 35 x 17 x 40 inches
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Rick Lazes Triumphant Reverse Painted on Hand Molded Acrylic Panels 56 x 36 x 36 inches
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Rick Lazes Sweep Reverse Painted on Hand Molded Acrylic Panels 39 x 33 x 34 inches
Rick Lazes Moulin Rouge Reverse Painted on Hand Molded Acrylic Panels 80 x 54 x 54 inches
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Rick Lazes Samantha Hand Molded Acrylic Panels 42 x 26 x 6 inches
Rick Lazes Debbie Hand Molded Acrylic Panels 45 x 31 x 6 inches
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