Contemporary Arts Project Gallery

08/14/2020

Donald R Miller II Fine Art

Happy Birthday DRM. "Drag your dogma, feed your fate" from The Hypocrite's Slugfest Akron 2005

06/23/2020

Donald R Miller II Fine Art

DRM memorial one year ago.

06/17/2020

Donald R Miller II Fine Art

Purgatory's Platform, 2007

06/17/2020

Donald R Miller II Fine Art

The A.R.M. knife brush in Purgatory's Platform, Northside Ice House, Akron, 2007

06/17/2020

Donald R Miller II Fine Art

from 2008...

A.R.M.
Artists Resisting Mindlessness
Declaration of independent cultural resistance.

1. A.R.M. is not an organization, institution, or corporate political entity and is not controlled by any organization, institution, or corporate political entity, is not open for membership, does not accept dues is neither for profit or non- profit and does not operate under a generic set of governmental bylaws.
2. A.R.M. first and foremost is a piece of conceptual art created by two philosophically similar artists to serve their environmental/sociological /political agendas and independent intellectual cultural aesthetic.
3. A.R.M. represents preservation and continuum of intellectual culture and stands in opposition to destructive capitalist economics, technological cognitive numbness,
unnecessary utilization of violence and fear as a form of political/psychological persuasion and oppression, destruction of the environment, promotion of repressive politically correct social contracts, mass standardization and homogenization of the human animal being, corporate monopolization of the American/world consumer landscape, the institutionalizing, commercializing and sanitizing of fine art and culture and the constant propagation of popular culture by the mass media on society as its culture.
4. A.R.M. is animal rights and environment.
5. A.R.M. is action and metamorphic.
6. A.R.M. is paradox.
7. A.R.M. is.

A.R.M. proudly supports these comrades in advocacy:
National Anti-Vivisection Society, Natural Resource Defense Council, Defenders of Wildlife, Nature Conservancy, National Geographic Society, Arbor Day Foundation, National Wildlife Federation, and Ohio Environmental Council

Protect and serve the Great Mother
Stop animal cruelty

Sandra Holata Donald Miller

A.R.M.

05/07/2020

Contemporary Art

12/03/2019

Akron Art Library Launch Party at the Odom Boulevard Branch Library - Akron Art Museum

A small painting by Donald R. Miller is included in the program. You can "check it out"!
https://akronartmuseum.org/calendar/akron-art-library-launch-party-at-the-odom-boulevard-branch-library/14143

Join the Akron Art Museum and Akron-Summit County Public Library for a Launch Party at the Odom Boulevard Branch Library on December 9 from 6-8 pm, free and open to all. Browse the newest Akron Art Library acquisitions, meet the artists and try your hand at some of their art making techniques.

06/17/2019

Join us this Saturday in celebrating a life dedicated to art - Donald R. Miller II

Join us this Saturday in celebrating a life dedicated to art - Donald R. Miller II

06/17/2019

Contemporary Arts Project Gallery's cover photo

03/13/2019

Inside the Magical and Relentlessly Creative World of Beloved Artist Kiki Smith

Inside the Magical and Relentlessly Creative World of Beloved Artist Kiki Smith

Peer inside legendary East Village artist Kiki Smith’s home and studio ahead of exhibitions at New York’s Pace Gallery and the Deste Foundation in Greece.

01/18/2019

40 Years Later, Jenny Holzer’s DIY Posters Still Provoke

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-jenny-holzers-inflammatory-essays-perfect-work-times?utm_medium=email&utm_source=15734729-newsletter-editorial-daily-01-17-19&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=st-V

Holzer’s series, posters featuring provocative text from sources like Hitler and Trotsky, continues to prompt the public discourse it set out to in the late 1970s.

01/18/2019

This Iconic Artwork Is an Apartment Filled with 140 Tons of Dirt

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-artist-masterpiece-involved-filling-apartment-140-tons-dirt?utm_medium=email&utm_source=15734729-newsletter-editorial-daily-01-17-19&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=st-V

In the late 1970s, Walter De Maria made art history with a simple, bold gesture. Here’s the dirt on a famous roomful of soil.

07/04/2016

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

A prodigious talent at fifteen, John Singleton Copley learned his trade by copying reproductions of Italian mythological paintings. Celebrate the anniversary of Copley’s birth with “Watson and the Shark.” http://bit.ly/298s14j

After John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815) | Watson and the Shark | ca. 1778

07/04/2016

MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Now on view: BRUCE CONNER: IT'S ALL TRUE, the first comprehensive retrospective of the artist's work featuring over 250 objects in mediums including film and video, painting, assemblage, drawing, prints, photography, photograms, and performance. The Wall Street Journal spoke to artist Christian Marclay and others about Conner's work: http://mo.ma/29dahCy

[Installation view of BRUCE CONNER: IT’S ALL TRUE. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, July 3-October 2, 2016. © 2016 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Martin Seck]

04/12/2016

Six in the Studio closing reception

Six in the Studio closing reception

“The Infinity Scar… Life within the far sighted eye-“              Donald R. Miller- An Installation Closing reception Friday, April 15 at the Cleveland West Art League www.78thstreetstudios.com  

04/12/2016

Six in the Studio closing reception

Six in the Studio closing reception

“The Infinity Scar… Life within the far sighted eye-“              Donald R. Miller- An Installation Closing reception Friday, April 15 at the Cleveland West Art League www.78thstreetstudios.com  

04/08/2016

Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) On View Now

Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) On View Now

Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2), a piece that is among the most iconic works in the history of modern art, is on display now at the CMA as part of the museum’s centennial year celebration!

04/08/2016

Akron Art Museum

Self-taught, Harry Callahan began taking photographs as a hobby at age twenty-six but went on to become one of the most influential American artists and teachers of the medium. Acknowledged for his innovative contributions to the development of art photography, Callahan spent six decades examining the camera’s formal and expressive possibilities.

When shooting urban and natural environments, the artist freely experimented with abstraction and in-camera manipulation, particularly multiple exposures. City life is shown to be crowded and hectic yet isolating. Nature is often seen close up, so that single stalks against a blank background become graphic rather than documentary images. In such works Callahan, like many painters of his time, acknowledges the flatness of the surface on which the image appears.

Harry Callahan, Peeling paint and paper, c. 1977 (printed 1980-81), dye transfer print, 8 11/16 in. x 13 7/8 in. Collection of the Akron Art Museum. Gift of Soraya Betterton. Find out more about Harry Callahan and this photograph tomorrow evening during the Free, curator-led gallery tour of PULP: http://on.fb.me/1R1bmf5

04/08/2016

Artsy

Artsy

NYC’s top galleries are moving to the Lower East Side, here’s why.

04/08/2016

Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt at The Cleveland Museum of Art, April 3 – July 31, 2016

Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt at The Cleveland Museum of Art, April 3 – July 31, 2016

“Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt explores the close friendship between two significant American artists of the postwar era: Eva Hesse (1936–1970) and Sol LeWitt (1928–2007). While …

03/16/2016

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Happy birthday to Diane Arbus, one of the most influential and provocative artists of the 20th century. An iconic image that embodies the awkward tension between childhood tomfoolery and primal violence, this has become one of the most celebrated photographs in the history of the medium.

This photograph will be on view in “diane arbus: in the beginning” opening at The #MetBreuer on July 12.

03/16/2016

78th Street Studios

78th Street Studios

Don't miss THIRD FRIDAY this week!

03/14/2016

Donald R. Miller at CWAL

Donald R. Miller at CWAL

Donald R. Miller will be installing a new piece in this exciting exhibition. Join us Friday, March 18 from 6 - 10 pm during the introduction and opening reception. The artists will work in the gallery over the next month, creating site specific installations. Then return on Friday, April 15 during t…

02/15/2016

SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Happy Valentine's Day from SFMOMA! To celebrate, find inspiration in these tales of artists' love, admiration, and lasting mutual influence.

01/23/2016

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Happy birthday to French avant-garde painter and poet Francis Picabia, born on this day in 1879.

01/23/2016

New work at River Light Gallery

New work at River Light Gallery

Last February I had an exhibition at Hazel Tree Interiors that showcased my newest paper works. In this work, I started incorporating more color with the use of fabric dyes. I spent most of 2015 in the studio exploring this new direction and really enjoyed where it led me.  The majority of the work…

01/22/2016

Why Are There So Many Great Women Video Artists?

Why Are There So Many Great Women Video Artists?

In the 1960s, following the post-war advent of television in America, video cameras became available to consumers and quickly found their way into the hands of the international art scene. Lauded as the grandfather of video art, Nam June Paik was one of the very first to employ the technology, in 19…

01/21/2016

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Happy birthday to artist Jeff Koons! His monumental floral sculpture "Puppy" stands guard over Museo Guggenheim Bilbao since 1997: http://gu.gg/XmK8X

01/04/2016

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

News from our Press Office—The first comprehensive retrospective in nearly fifty years of pioneering artist and educator László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) opens at the Guggenheim May 27: http://gu.gg/WBSg2

12/29/2015

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

A selection of miniature paintings by Alberto Burri are currently on view in our retrospective. Guggenheim Curator Megan Fontanella tells the story of how these skillfully crated paintings were sent by the artist as Christmas and New Year's greetings: http://gu.gg/WguJS

12/29/2015

Artsy

Artsy

Centre Pompidou presents Anselm Kiefer’s first retrospective in France in over 30 years.

12/29/2015

The New York Times

The New York Times

He was one of America’s great 20th-century abstract artists, and a true original.

11/19/2015

Alberto Burri: Exhibition Overview

Alberto Burri: Exhibition Overview

Curator Emily Braun introduces Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting, a retrospective exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, that explores the work of 20th-century Italian artist Alberto Burri.

11/06/2015

20 Inspiring Quotes from John Muir

20 Inspiring Quotes from John Muir

Essays 20 Inspiring Quotes from John Muir Been outside lately? How about a few reminders from the Poet Laureate of the High Sierra? John Muir was ecstatically By Brendan Leonard October 22, 2013 9 14 Been outside lately? How about a few reminders from the Poet Laureate of the High Sierra? John…

11/01/2015

Red Alert: EU Spares Cadmium From Possible Ban | In the Air | BLOUIN ARTINFO Blogs

Red Alert: EU Spares Cadmium From Possible Ban | In the Air | BLOUIN ARTINFO Blogs

In the Air - After over a year of consideration, the European Union has shelved a proposal to ban the cadmium pigment in artistss paints, The Art Newspaper ...