Frank Miller

Frank J. Miller’s new work, “Spires + Pinnacles received an Honorable Mention award from the judges at the opening of this year’s 7th Cloverdale Annual Sculpture Exhibit. Miller is a renowned artist who has exhibited extensively throughout California and internationally in Japan, France, and Mexico.

“Spires + Pinnacles” is inspired by the work of Russian-born American artist Louise Nevelson. After a recent visit to the Louise Nevelson retrospective, Miller was inspired to depart from his well-known bass-relief wall pieces into free-standing three-dimensional work. This new body of work continues to reflect Miller’s fascination with the industrial detritus of our culture. He finds the unseen beauty in everything from abandoned factory sites to the minute interior mechanisms of discarded appliances. His rich palette of earth tones and carefully calibrated surface textures mirrors the ambient patina of rust and decay that he resurrects into works of great harmony and beauty. Miller’s continued exploration of the dialogue between interior and exterior space propels the viewer into the contemplation of the past, the present, and the future. “Spires + Pinnacles” is made from found objects, triple coated with iron paint and rusted.

Nevelson’s words “art was all that mattered to me, at all times, right from the very beginning” so equally apply to Miller. As a child in New York, Miller visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art with his father. He was immediately smitten with the Rembrandt Gallery, his first exposure to masterful art, and he knew immediately that to be an artist for the rest of his life was set permanently into his psyche. He attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City and has lived a life of art ever since.

Photo by Tedd Peterson