Coming and Going: New work of Algernon Miller Opening Reception
Friday, September 8, 2023
5:30-7:30 pm
Free Admission
Algernon Miller, Warp, 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 96 x 48 Inches
Enjoy an evening in the galleries with exhibiting artist and curators featuring the latest works of Algernon Miller, a Father of Afrofuturism.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:
Miller has concentrated on transforming the non-material into the material, utilizing sacred geometry and numerology, sculptural and architectural form, text, and cross-continental exchange. He draws on African and African-American artistic heritage, such as beading and quilting. Yet, his use of new technologies, as in much Techspressionism, traverses the so-called digital divide, which associates blackness with technological disadvantage. Along with many Afrofuturist thinkers, he is conscious of a long line of “Blacks in Science,” black innovators, and he experiments with sound, kinetic energy, solar power, 3D animation, and holography.
Artist Statement:
Imagine a time when science and spirituality were inseparable and the oneness of all things was universally understood and accepted. A time when society was structured on these principles from the top down.
I am an American born multidisciplinary artist, however this new body of work focuses on abstract painting as the foundation upon which everything else is constructed. It is where work and play are combined, it’s my Ground Zero. I then layer patterns and codes to create a synthesis of painting with the illusion of dimensionality, the coming and going of all things in space time and yet past present and future exist simultaneously.