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Harland Miller
Rocky 6

Previously in the Gallery
9 July 2011 - 13 September 2011
Harland Miller installation shot Rocky VI

Press Release

Galerie Alex Daniels is pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition

Saturday, July 9th from 5 - 7 pm in the presence of the artist.

Rocky 6 will be a new show with 6 new works by the artist.

Harland Miller is a both a writer and an artist. After living and exhibiting in New York, Berlin and New Orleans during the 80s and 90s, Miller achieved critical acclaim with his debut novel, Slow down Arthur, Stick to Thirty (2000), the story of a kid who travels around northern England with a David Bowie impersonator. In 2001 Miller produced a series of paintings based of the dust jackets of Penguin books. By combining the motif inherent in the Penguin book, Miller found a way to marry aspects of Pop Art, abstraction and figurative painting at once, with his writer's love of text. Miller continues to create work in this vein, expanding the book covers to include his own phrases, some hilarious and absurd, others with a lush melancholy. Harland Miller lives in London.

About the artist

The artist and writer Harland Miller is known for his large-scale, playful reworkings of Penguin book covers.

Miller takes much-loved book jackets of classic works by Hemmingway, Fitzgerald, Edgar Allen Poe and others as his starting point. By rendering them in oils at poster size with quirky new titles, he transforms them into contemporary, often satirical commentaries on life and literature. Whether ironic, nostalgic, or downright cheeky - "Dirty Northern Bastard," by DH Lawrence, or "I'm so Fucking Hard," by Hemmingway - the titles demythologise and amuse in equal measure.

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