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FEB / MAR   2009  EXHIBITIONS  the metamorphosis project Adam Miller Invitation Leda Bio Adam was born in 1979 in Oregon where he began an apprenticeship to artist Allen Jones at the age of thirteen. At sixteen he was accepted and studied at the Florence Academy of Art where he underwent an extensive training in classical techniques and studied the masterpieces of the Renaissance firsthand. For the next four years Miller traveled Europe studying the greatest art of the past, and specifically the masterpieces of the Italian Mannerists and Flemish Baroque painting in Antwerp. It was while living in close proximity to the paintings of Rubens in Belgium that he was inspired to work in his current style of large narrative figure paintings. He furthered his studies with Michael John Angel, Nelson Shanks, Michael Grimaldi, and Hal Brooks at the New York Academy of Art. Adam has taught multiple media privately for nearly a decade, has won many awards including best in show at the International Museum of Contemporary Masters, is the founder of Art Cause NYC and has exhibited in Galleries in the United States and Europe. Artist Statement My art exists in the intersection between reality and collective cultural Mythology . It has been described as "the birth of contemporary fairy tales. Dreams and fantasies merge with the reality of urban life in the twenty first century". My work leaves the question of absolute reality behind and accepts as its axiom a quantum point of view in which every individual defines, dreams, and finally exists within his own reality. In this dream anything is possible and can be made visible by an act of creation. By recasting myth for the era in which we live, I aim to tap into the deepest hopes and dreams inherent to mankind; those visions which lurk restlessly beneath our conscious thoughts as magma flows beneath the surface of the earth. The presence of the nude in my work is a manifestation of innocence, it is a reference to that timeless existence in our imagination before judgment and shame led us to cover our bodies and we learned the art of lies and deceit. This ideal time coexists with the more familiar world of collective consciousness in my paintings, each one throwing the other into sharper relief and challenging us to question the way we define our world and create the collective illusions we choose to accept as reality HOME CALENDAR OUTREACH GALLERY ABOUT US LINKS CONTACT ARTSPACE GALLERY : @ PLANT ZERO : ZERO EAST FOURTH STREET : RICHMOND, VA 23224 : 804.232.6464 all content copyright : may not be reproduced in any form without written permission