Alex Miller
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Alex Miller is a creative problem-solver and multi-faceted story-teller with over a decade of experience working in Marketing and Communications. Miller graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2010, having studied art theory, art production, and poetry. In addition to his MarComm work, Miller has been producing interactive events and exhibitions throughout Los Angeles. He is a founding member of and teacher at the People’s Pottery Project–whose goal is to empower formerly incarcerated individuals through ceramics. Prior to working with TreePeople, Miller helped lead the Craft in America Center, he managed ForYourArt’s communications and co-managed their activity space, and worked for commercial galleries and nonprofits throughout Los Angeles. He brings his aesthetic and communications expertise wherever he goes.
Artist Statement
Art is a conversation. Conversation is play. I work in ceramic and multimedia, building pieces through prompt and response—an interaction between material and audience.
I make interactive rocks. I make objects that are permanent but come alive through action.
My work lives in the now—political, capitalist, environmentally aware. I blend the history of the medium with my own aesthetic: brutal yet refined, rough yet delicate. The artist's hands are both my subject and my tool—how we make, how we hold craft, how we act on intention.
I keep a foot in design and a foot in fine art. I'm not interested in making one thing forever. Sculpture is my poetry—turning the everyday into the incredible. My wares are my prose—turning the extraordinary into something you'd use every day.
Artist. Designer. Moderator of experience in both. I hope you'll laugh with me.
Artist
2017-
Male Glaze
2019
Consume: Handcrafting L.A. Restaurant Design, curated by Emily Zaiden, Craft in America Center, Los Angeles
2018
Alex Miller: Break Room, ArtMovement, Los Angeles
Peep!, curated by Bettina Hubby and Michael G. Bauer, Circus of Books, Los Angeles
2017
The Panacea Project, curated by Bettina Hubby, Los Angeles
2016
Breakables, The Institute of New Feeling: Felt Book
Stick It to The Man, at the Simple Simples comedy show
2014
House of Modern Horrors, 1431 Armacost Ave, Los Angeles
Artists' Books and Cookies, 356 Mission/Ooga Twooga, Los Angeles
2013
Photo Op: art to pose with, ForYourArt at 6020 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles
Artists' Books and Cookies, 356 Mission/Ooga Twooga, Los Angeles
2012
Brain Melt, curated by Hannah Deutsch, A Gathering of Tribes, New York
Queer Pile-Up, organized by Darin Klein, ForYourArt at 6020 Wilshire Blvd. , Los Angeles
The Planter Show, ForYourArt at 6020 Wilshire Blvd. , Los Angeles
The Mulholland Dérive, organized by Stephen van Dyck, Mulholland Drive, Los Angeles
2010
The Sketchbook Show, A Space Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
2005
Synergy Teen Art Exhibition, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Curatorial
2020
Craft in America: Made in L.A., co-curated with Emily Zaiden, Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles
2018
The Circuitry of Joyce J. Scott: A Group Exhibition of Collaboration and Innovation, co-curated with Emily Zaiden, Craft in America Center, Los Angeles
2015
5 or Less Fest, Basic Flowers, Los Angeles
2013
Photo Op: art to pose with, ForYourArt at 6020 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles
2010
The Sketchbook Show, A Space Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY