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Miles Conrad - Artist Statement As a painter living in Tucson, I draw inspiration from the austere beauty of the desert landscape and the capacity of living beings to thrive under these conditions. Temperature is a distinguishing factor in both this type of environment and in the encaustic painting process. Heat creates and yet threatens. Like an ecosystem, beeswax is archival yet vulnerable. Within this territory of harsh extremes there is also morbidity, decay, and the constant risk of encroachment by forces both natural and industrial. Individual lives and the survival of whole species hang in the balance. Using the elements of gesture, abstraction and post-minimal forms, my work references this terrain both in the literal sense and also as metaphor for physical, emotional and social states. I create biomorphic images that explore dissonance, conflict, and a sense of separation from a voice that aspires to be at once personal yet deeply resonant with collective experience. My obsessive fascination with the organic and visceral qualities of beeswax, together with my interest in the sculpture of Eva Hesse leads me to my latest area of inquiry; the juxtaposition of beeswax with simple industrial materials to both reference the geometric grid of a honeycomb as a point of abstraction and to also serve as allegorical content about the nature of organizations, production, economies, and dwellings. Although I am at a crossroads in formal terms, I am consistently interested in articulating the places where the socio-political meets the body, the mind, and the earth. Resume Solo Exhibitions
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