Tri-Lad

Toy cars on canvas series

Derek Miller
2005
Mixed Media
72″ x 54″

Suburban Lady

Here’s another stop motion animation.

SigAlert

Toy cars on canvas series

I’ve lived in other places besides Wichita, Kansas. Maybe someone from the West coast will get this, or maybe an occasional visitor of KNX1070.

Car Spangled Banter

Toy cars on canvas series

Derek Miller
2008
Mixed Media
72″ x 54″

This is the painting I submitted to the Shepard Fairy/Democratic National Convention show for a juried exhibition. I was denied. My art work was not illustrative enough.

sCARab

Toy cars on canvas series

Derek Miller
sCARab
Mixed Media
72″ x 54″

I am interested in semiotics. Maybe more semantics than pragmatics, but semiotics is definately the vehicle. I think the scarab symbol makes for a nice recycling symbol, or a blue collar laborer.

Auto Domingo

Toy Cars on Canvas Series

Derek Miller
2007
Mixed Media
72″ x 54″

All American

Toy cars on canvas series.

This is one of my paintings using toy cars to create a secondary image. The painting is six feet tall (72″ x 54″) and it weighs about sixty pounds. Depending on the size of your monitor, you are viewing an image that would be normally seen from about twenty to thirty feet. In the gallery people see the toy cars before the second/virtual image.

Extra Virgin Hot Wheels

This is a one of my stop motion animations I created using a Sony Hi-8 Handycam (1990/94),  a frame grabber computer program, and Windows Movie Maker.  This film took about a week to film.  I lost about four pounds from walking in and out of the picture frame to place a car and take a photo.

Current Artist Statement

My art work is a vehicle for exploring perception using stylized abstractions and base materialism to communicate with a global audience.

Derek Miller’s Art Autobiographical

Derek Miller – Wichita, Kansas

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Kansas City Art Institute – 2005

Exhibitions/Media:

2008 – The Arts Council Annual Juried Exhibition -City Arts, Wichita, Kansas

2008 – Reimaging – group – Inter-Faith Ministries C.A.F.E. Gallery, Wichita, Kansas

2008 – All’s Fair in Art and Politics – group exhibition – Erman B White Gallery, El Dorado, Kansas

2008 – Outsider Artists – group exhibition – City Arts, Wichita, Kansas

2007 – 2008 Art Commute – (Youtube, Yahoo, World Wide Web, stop motion animation.)

2007 – Art Commute - KTLA Television, Los Angeles – National syndicated show, The Cyberguy.

2006 – 2008 – Drop Zones – Public Art installation in Kansas City & Wichita, Kansas.

2007 – 2008 - Drop Zones – World Wide Web – stop motion animation.

2006 – Art in Democracy – national group exhibition – Raise Your Voices, Warrensburg, Missouri.

2006 – Parking Out Back – solo – St Michaels Episcopal church, Mission, Kansas

2005 – 2006 Drive and Eat - solo – Dada’s Bistro, Crossroads Art district, Kansas City, Missouri.

Kudos & Affiliations:

VFW Member

National Dean’s List Alumni

Phi Theta Kappa Alumni

Gold Key Scholarship – Wichita, Kansas 1986