Untitled – Geometric Study with Shield

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John F. Miller

2004

Print (Digital)

Description

John F. Miller spent over seven decades exploring the interplay of color, structure, and gesture. In his digitally produced inkjet prints, he layered photographs, scanned textures, and graphic elements into colorful compositions that balance meticulous geometric structure with the energy of improvisational gestures. These prints, which Miller described as “digital paintings,” demonstrate his integration of traditional painterly concerns with emerging technologies.

Miller began his career teaching painting, design, and jewelry-making, later founding Chicago’s 414 Art Workshop Gallery in 1953. He taught at various institutions, including a forty-year tenure at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. As his artistic practice developed, Miller pursued a deep engagement with geometric abstraction and gestural mark-making, frequently combining dense, layered color with precise spatial arrangements. By the late 1990s, Miller began translating this painterly practice into the digital realm, dedicating the rest of his career to the inexhaustible possibilities of the virtual canvas.