Bryan S. Miller will be April’s featured artist at Fresno Pacific University. The ArtHop opening reception will be from 5:00-8:00 p.m. Thursday, April 3, with the exhibit continuing through April 25.
The show, “Valley of Dreams,” will be in Ewert Art Gallery, Warkentine Culture and Arts Center, 4838 E. Butler Ave., Fresno, part of the main Fresno Pacific University campus. Admission is free.
Works explore the modern landscape, through the interpretation of dreams, according to Miller’s artist statement, combining formal abstraction, surrealism and expressionism “to represent the confluence of urban, suburban, and rural landscapes of the Central Valley.”
Inspiration came from Miller’s own since-fulfilled dreams to escape “the middle,” as in the Midwest. “I remember ‘Hotel California’ and the Mamas and Papas softly playing between the roar and hum of the tools from my father’s shop, on the cold Indiana Saturday mornings,” he writes in his statement. “Move West young man is all I heard from those FM stations. Desolation Angels and East of Eden stoking the embers of my move.”
Miller earned his BFA from Herron School of Art and Design and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. More about Miller and his work at B Miller Fine Art
Upcoming FPU ArtHop event at Ewert Art Gallery in Warkentine Culture and Arts Center:
- 5:00-8:00 p.m. Thursday, May 1, FPU Student Art Show ArtHop reception. Admission is free; exhibit runs through the summer.