GREG MILLER
WILLIAM TUNRER GALLERY
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Crazy Horse, 2026, Acrylic and collage on canvas, 108” x 180”
GREG MILLER Santa Monica, CA — William Turner Gallery is pleased to present What’s Goin’ On, an exhibition of new paintings by Greg Miller. Opening Saturday, September 12, from 5–8 PM and on view through November 7, 2026, the exhibition continues Miller’s decadeslong exploration of American popular culture, memory, media, and the mythology of American life. For more than three decades, Miller has developed a distinctive visual language from the fragments of American culture — advertisements, comic books, magazine clippings, Hollywood imagery, signage, and other remnants of the American visual landscape. Combining found materials with painting, photorealism, gestural abstraction, and collage, he creates densely layered compositions in which images and text collide, overlap, and acquire new meanings. In What’s Goin’ On, Miller returns to the visual vocabulary of postwar America with a renewed sense of immediacy. Familiar images are extracted from their original contexts and reassembled into complex environments. His works invite close looking: a fragment of text, a familiar face, or a recognizable symbol can lead the viewer through unexpected associations and shifting narratives.
Miller draws upon the evocative language of advertising and mass media, where desire, aspiration, and consumerism became inseparable from everyday American life. His paintings function as a kind of visual archaeology, excavating the cultural residue of an earlier America while revealing its persistent presence in contemporary life. The title, What’s Goin’ On, reflects the open-ended nature of this investigation. Rather than presenting a singular narrative, the exhibition offers a constellation of visual clues and fragments of stories—some recognizable, others deliberately obscured—inviting viewers to construct their own connections between image and text, past and present, personal memory and collective mythology. At the heart of Miller’s work is a tension between nostalgia and critique. His imagery retains the allure of the culture from which it originates—glamorous, colorful, romantic, and often cinematic— while distressed surfaces, interruptions, and unexpected juxtapositions complicate that attraction. What initially appears familiar becomes unstable upon closer inspection. The past is not simply preserved; it is fragmented, reconstructed, and reconsidered.
Whathat’s Goin’ On, 2026, Acrylic and collage on canvas, 60” x 96”
What’s Goin O 2026, Acrylic a 60” x 72”, $40,
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Upon a Time 2026, Acrylic and collage on canvas 60” x 72”
Double LA 2026, Acrylic and collage on canvas 72” x 60”
Into the Wild 2026, Acrylic and collage on canvas 72” x 60”
Good 2026, Acrylic and collage on canvas 60” x 72”
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Holiday 2026, Acrylic and collage on canvas 36” x 72”
Romance 2026, Acrylic and collage on canvas 48” x 48”
American 2026, Acrylic and collage on canvas 60” x 48”
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Lucky 2026, Acrylic and collage on canvas 60” x 48”
Love Between Hard Covers Acrylic and collage on canvas 42” x 96
Stay Cool Acrylic and collage on canvas 48” x 60”
Wild Western Acrylic and collage on canvas 72” x 60”
GREG MILLER to ghost-towns around Lake Tahoe. While exploring the decaying homes people had abandoned, he was struck by the resourcefulness used to gild the walls with collages of old magazines and newspaper clippings. These archaeological ruins were a foil in contradiction with the tinsel of the aspirational advertisements dressing their walls. Subsequently, Miller became a collector of vintage magazines, newspapers, zines and popular culture which he uses today as a part of his medium. Miller’s artistic process can be likened to that of a contemporary archaeologist. By layering books, magazines, and other materials onto the surface of his artworks, he engages in a form of excavation and exploration. Much like an archaeologist delving into the layers of the earth to uncover fragments of the past, Miller digs into the layers of images and text Greg Miller’s innovative paintings render to discover hidden clues and meanings. familiar imagery and text into artworks saturated with poignant slices of Americana. Greg Miller (b. 1951) was born in Sacramento, Nostalgic nods to ubiquitous tropes, such California and holds a Master of Arts Degree as billboards, pulp fictions, comic books, from San Jose University. Once a long-time magazine ads and cinema marquees figure Venice, California resident, he currently in fractions across the canvas. With carefully resides in LA, CA & Austin, Texas. His selected images he composes vignettes to work is featured in numerous museum and articulate a vernacular about American life private collections, including those of: the and the pervasive symbology of American San Jose Museum of Art, Newport Harbor consumer culture. Disparate objects and Museum, Crocker Museum of Art, Los figures combine their relationship to one Angeles County Museum of Art, Laguna Art another, coalesce and become a singular Museum, Riverside Art Museum, Frederick subject. The exhibition’s title suggests a R. Weisman Foundation and Charles Saatchi fairytale and both the glamour and illusion Foundation. The Get Go, a volume of his which Hollywood exports. writings, photography and paintings was published in 2010, and the first comprehensive Growing up in northern California, Miller’s monograph of the artist, Signs of the Nearly grandmother would take him on road trips Actual, was published in 2009.
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