Looking at them was like being under water in a coral sea, or being on the moon surrounded by lunar rocks. This was in 1987, when images like these weren’t widely reproduced. I was interested in them both for what they were and what they looked like-completely abstract images as seen through an electron microscope. I started looking at medical textbooks, at images of viruses and cancers. Because the pathological aspects of culture fascinate me, I began to think about what else would constitute literal images of pathology. Rorschach blots, from what I understand, while no longer used much, had once been thought useful in revealing pathology. I was using images from science that were used to test, on some level, someone else’s psychic energy. SM: What I started to appreciate was that inkblots tested for a kind of content I hadn’t been thinking about when I started this work. through January 13, 2014.įactory, 2008, dispersion and silk screen enamel on canvas, 80″ x 120″Ĭrossing the Line: Paintings by Steve Miller By Marvin Heiferman Concatenations thanks both curator and artist for permitting the republication of the texts here, and the artist for providing such a wealth of images.Ĭrossing the Line: Paintings by Steve Miller will be on view at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. What follows is an abbreviated version of that interview prefaced by Heiferman’s introductory essay for the current show along with a selection of images from both exhibitions. For the catalogue for the earlier show, which was curated by Michael Rush and titled Spiraling Inward, an extensive interview was conducted between Heiferman and Miller. Curated by Marvin Heiferman, the show expands on an earlier exhibition by the artist that took place at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in 2007. In his current exhibition at the National Academy of Sciences titled Crossing the Line, Miller presents a body of work based on his long-term collaboration with Nobel Prize-winning neurobiologist and biophysicist Rod MacKinnon. STEVE MILLER is a photographer, painter, and sculptor who has been making work at the intersection of art and science for over three decades. Signal Relay, 2003, dispersion and silk screen on canvas, 50″ x 37.5″
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