John Millei - Anthropomorphic Abstraction

JOHN MILLEIAnthropomorphic Abstraction

JOHN MILLEIAnthropomorphic Abstraction

Quint Contemporary ArtMarch 2 - April 13, 2013

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“I am painting toward a metaphoric rendering of man, in which scale is discontinuous,

space abstract and forms more idealized.” – John Millei

Installation view, JOHN MILLEI - Anthropomorphic Abstraction, March 2 - April 13, 2013. Photo credit: Philipp Scholz Rittermann.

Hat Head2013oil and �ashe on canvas80” x 63”203.2cm x 160cm

Right:Hat Head2013oil and �ashe on canvas63” x 49”160cm x 124.4cm

Top far right:Hat Head2013oil and �ashe on canvas20” x 16”50.8cm x 40.6cm

Bottom far right:Hat Head2013oil and �ashe on canvas20” x 16”50.8cm x 40.6cm

Installation viewJOHN MILLEI - Anthropomorphic AbstractionMarch 2 - April 13, 2013Photo credit: Philipp Scholz Rittermann.

Torso2013oil and �ashe on canvas72” x 60”182.9cm x 152.4cm

Torso2013

oil and �ashe on canvas30” x 24”

76.2cm x 60.9cm

Torso2013oil and �ashe on canvas30” x 24”76.2cm x 60.9cm

Yellow Streak2013oil and �ashe on canvas36” x 32”91.4cm x 81.2cm

Lips2013oil and �ashe on canvas36” x 32”91.4cm x 81.2cm

Red Bow2013oil and �ashe on canvas42” x 36”106.7cm x 91.4cm

Head of a Woman2010-11oil and �ashe on canvas36” x 30”91.4cm x 76cm

Blue Streaks2010-11oil and �ashe on canvas28-1/2” x 25”72.4cm x 63.5cm

PRESS RELEASE

JOHN MILLEIANTHROPOMORPHIC ABSTRACTION

March 2 – April 13, 2013Opening reception: Saturday, March 2, from 6 to 8 PM

“In my new work I am investigating personality traits of both men and women through simple abstract mark making. In all of these paintings I am painting toward a metaphoric rendering of man, in which scale is discontinuous, space abstract and forms more idealized.” – John Millei Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to present JOHN MILLEI: ANTHROPOMORPHIC ABSTRACTION, a solo exhibition of paintings by Los Angeles-based artist John Millei. This is the second solo presentation of Millei’s work at QCA. His last exhibition featured �gurative paintings titled Portraits of You. This exhibition features work from Portraits of You plus two new bodies of work, the Hat Head and Torso series. Millei calls the Hat Head series an “avatar of maleness,” sometimes stoic, seemingly ordered and set in a pattern of vertical and horizontal marks. The Torso series, by contrast contain more chaotic brushstrokes that in the end �nd order in shape, but not design. The lively color palette of both series denies the anthropomorphism from being too obvious. The scale of the paintings put their human quality in question by outsizing the viewer. The exhibition opens on Saturday, March 2 with a public reception from 6 to 8PM. The artist will be in attendance. Millei has explored �guration in the past with his Procession paintings from 1997-2006, which were highly abstract as well as in 2009 with a series called Woman in a Chair (after Picasso). His newest works evoke the human form using brushstroke as a metaphor for the human body, while sometimes disregarding human shape. In this series the intuitive process of the artist outweighs the subjective matter of the paintings. Searching for the metaphoric representation of mankind, Millei has used his intuition and painterly brushstrokes to create objects of pure abstraction that are no longer just about making a portrait of one person, but represent a collective portrait of men/women. Human nature is scrawled all over the paintings. As a professor of painting at Claremont Graduate University, Millei has been in�uential over a generation of painters and artists in Southern California. With solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, Paris and Venice, his work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in numerous museum and private collections.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

BIOGRAPHY

1958 Born Los Angeles, CA Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

TEACHING

1991 – Present Adjunct Professor Of Painting, Claremont Graduate University1987 – Present Fine Art Faculty, Art Center College Of Design Pasadena1995 – 2000 Adjunct Professor & Thesis Advisor, Sci-Arc (Southern California Institute Of Architecture)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013 ANTHROPOMORPHIC ABSTRACTION, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA2012 PORTRAITS OF YOU, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 2009-10 WOMAN IN A CHAIR, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA MARITIME, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2008 PROCESSION PAINTINGS, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice, Italy 2006 PROCESSION, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA 2002 THE REAL LIFE OF FLOWERS, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA FOR SURFING, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2001 Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA2000 Ace Gallery, New York, NY ANNUS MUNDI PAINTINGS, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA1999 Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France PAINTINGS, Domaine De Kerguehennec, Bignan, France1998 TERRA PAINTINGS, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA TERRA PAINTINGS, Ace Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico PAINTINGS, Velan, Torino, Italy 1997 SELECTED PAINTINGS, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA FRIENDLY PRESSURE, Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX 1996 SELECTED WORKS: 1991-1996, Ace Gallery, New York, NY PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS, Douglas Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX 1995 DRAWINGS, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA MARITIME, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA JOHN MILLEI RETABLOS, Trisorio Gallery, Napoli, Italy

NI-BE-FE, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA NERVE METER PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS, Douglas Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX1994 DRAWINGS, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1993 PROJECT: RETABLOS, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY DRAWINGS, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1991-92 PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1991 DRAWINGS, Marc Jancou Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland1990 DRAWINGS, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1988 Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA DRAWINGS, Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA 1987 Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA1984 Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA 1982 Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA 1981 Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 BAKER’S DOZEN III, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (RE-): UN-HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA 2004 ACE INVITATIONAL 2004, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2002 ACE INVITATIONAL 2002, Ace Gallery, New York, NY 1998 HELMUT DORNER, HELMUT FEDERLE, JOHN MILLEI, GERHARD RICHTER, Domaine De Kerguehennec, Bignan, France 1997 PRIMARY COLORS, Barbara Faber/Rob Jurka Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland 1995 ABSTRACTION FROM TWO COASTS, The Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX PAINTING BEYOND THE IDEA, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA FLOWERS, Boritzer/Gray/Hamano, Santa Monica, CA 1993 PHYSICAL ABSTRACTION, Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY 4TH NEWPORT BIENNIAL, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA 1992 NEW PHYSICAL ABSTRACTION IN LOS ANGELES PART II, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA ESSENTIAL GESTURES: NANCY HAYNES, JOHN MILLEI, SIGMAR POLKE, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, NY 1991 THE NEW PHYSICAL ABSTRACTION IN LOS ANGELES, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA THREE PAINTERS: JACQUELINE HUMPHRIES, JOHN MILLEI, CARL OSTENDARP, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA RECENT ACQUISITIONS OF THE ACHENBACH FOUNDATION FOR THE GRAPHIC ARTS, PART TWO: 1950-1991, California Palace Of The Legion Of Honor, San Francisco, CA

1990 PHYSICAL ABSTRACTION, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA BRAZIL PROJECTS 1990, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Art Museum Of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil IN PERFECT SILENCE, Art Center College Of Art And Design, Pasadena, CA David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY THE ENDS OF PAINTING: THE EDGES OF ABSTRACTIONS, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA FOUR ABSTRACT PAINTERS, Claremont College, Claremont, CA THE SPIRIT OF OUR TIME, Contemporary Arts Council, Santa Barbara, CA1988 Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA AFTER ABSTRACT, Art Center College Design, Pasadena, CA1987 DRAWINGS, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1984 SMALL WORKS NATIONAL, Zanel Gallery, Rochester, NY INTERIORS-EXTERIORS, Gensler & Associates, Los Angeles, CA DRAWING: NINE ARTISTS, Swope Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2010 Curcio, Seth. “John Millei: Woman In A Chair.” Www.Dailyserving.Com. 6 July. Duncan, Michael. “John Millei: Ace Gallery.” Modern Painters April. Miles, Christopher. “John Millei At Ace... And Ace.” La Weekly 15 April: P. 37. Fallah, Amir. ”John Millei: Abstraction Master.” Beautiful Decay 3 March.2009 Kuspit, Donald. “Through History To Authenticity: John Millei's Paintings.” www.Artnet.Com “Maritime Paintings By John Millei On View At Ace Gallery.” www.Designtaxi.Com. 23 December.2007 “Post-Production Conversation: John Millei Talks With Mitchell Kane.” X-Tra Contemporary Art Quarterly Vol. 9, No. 3 February.2002 Pagel, David. Los Angeles Times 30 August. 2001 Schwabsky, Barry. Tema Celeste November/December. P. 60- 63. Scarborough, James. Arttext July/August. 2000 Zeitz, Lisa. “The ‘Last Cry’ In Abstractionism: At Ace Gallery New York.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 14 October. Dimichele, David. “John Millei At Ace Gallery.” Artweek Vol. 31, Issue 6 June. P.19-20. 1996 Macadam, Barbara. “John Millei.” Artnews December. P. 119. Schwabsky, Barry. Artforum. Dominique, Nahas. Review Magazine Vol. 2, No. 6. 1 December. "John Millei At The Trisoro Gallery." Tema Celeste May.1995 Christie, Tom. "Painting The Town." Buzz August. P. 48.

William Wilson. "Artistic Passion." Los Angeles Times 15 April. P. F16. 1994 Pagel, David. "Unlike Diebenkorn." Los Angeles Times 24 February.1993 Pagel, David. "The New Physical Abstraction In Los Angeles." Tema Celeste Winter. P. 76. Pagel, David. “John Millei, Placer Abstracto.” Lapiz – International Art Review No. 102. P. 57-64.1992 Peterson, William. “Physical Abstraction: On Some Abstract Painting In Los Angeles." Artspace December. P. 53-60. Scarborough, James. "Agnostic Abstraction." Artspace September. Pagel, David. "Big Sensations." Los Angeles Times 7 August. Barrie, Lita. Artspace, May. Dimichele, David. "Painted Space: John Millei At Ace Gallery." Artweek 9 January, P. 12. 1991 Pagel, David. "John Millei: Strangely Alienated." Los Angeles Times 29 October. P.F5. Pagel, David. "The Ends Of Paintings: The Edges Of Abstractions." Artspace Vol.15, No. 2 January/February. P. 42-49, Cover. 1990 Woodward, Joseph. "Spirit Of Our Time." Artweek 20 December. P. 16. Crowder, Joan. "Catching The Spirit Of Our Time." Santa Barbara News Press 23 November. P. 22. Frank, Peter. "Pick Of The Week." L.A. Weekly November. Channin, Richard. "Flowering Of Sensation, John Millei At Ace Gallery." Artweek 18 October. Appleton, Steve. "Consideration Of The Historical." Artweek Vol. 21, No. 16, 26 April. P. 11-12. Wilson, William. "Abstractions' Contrasting Temperaments." Los Angeles Times 16 March. 1989 Pagel, David. "John Millei." Arts Magazine January. Channin, Richard. "John Millei." Artcoast March/April. 1988 Frank, Peter. "Pick Of The Week." L.A. Weekly 22-28 January. Ollman, Leah. "Review." San Diego Union 20 March. Nowlin, Stephen. After Abstract. Pasadena: Art Center College Of Design. Hugo, Joan. "Oppositions In Abstraction." Artweek 22 October. Speigel, Judith. "A Commitment To Delight." Artweek 22 October.1987 Gardner, Colin. "The Galleries." Los Angeles Times 1 December. 1984 Lasarow, Bill. "John Millei & Elizabeth Topper." Artscene Vol. 3, April. Donaghue, Marlena. "The Galleries." Los Angeles Times 13 April. 1983 Lowy, Vicki. "Reviews Of Exhibitions." Images & Issues March/April. 1982 Pincus, Robert L. "The Galleries." Los Angeles Times 19 November. 1981 Muchnic, Suzanne. "The Galleries." Los Angeles Times 16 January.

PUBLICATIONS

“Procession”, Robert Creely, Kevin O’ Sullivan, Mitchell Kane, John Millei.. By Ace Gallery, 2008.“For Sur�ng”, Jamie Brisick, Dennis Phillips. By Ace Gallery, 2002 “Terra Incognita”, Dennis Philllips, John Millei. Claremont Graduate University Press,1999 “Personal”, Robert Creely, John Millei. By Peter Koch Press, 1998

DOCUMENTARIES

“John Millei Maritime,” Full Figured Films. www.Youtube.Com, January 2010 “John Millei Woman In A Chair,” Full Figured Films. www.Youtube.Com, January 2010

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