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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Featured Artist of the Day: Joe Mills.

When you walk through the double-doors, just outside the stairs, you will come face to face with our Front Center Wall. Displaying not only the title of the show and all of its featured artists, it also holds the work of artist, Joe Mills.

The three pieces installed are The Smoke Chaser I, 2009; The Smoke Chaser II, 2010; and The Living Hell, 2009. The first Smoke Chaser is an archival pigment print on antique paper and it is mounted to a wooden drawer. The second Smoke Chaser, is a waxed archival pigment print on antique paper which is mounted to plywood, which in turn is mounted to a card-table. The last piece, The Living Hell, is an archival pigment print on antique paper mounted to a board.

"Mills says of his work, "We are artists whether we choose to be or not. It has nothing to do with "talent"[.] It is a priesthood, a faith that we are naturally a part of by the mere fact that we are human beings. It is a religion fueled by our innate curiosity to understand the mystery of existence. Painting, photography, collage, poetic writing --- each medium plays a part in giving definition to the larger picture. Eventually you realize that there is almost no difference between them. The art made being simply molecules of a single object --- the mission to materialized this object, to bring it into its own light, giving flesh to the infinite."" ("Artwork Identification packet, First Page.)

Creatively using found objects and incorporating them into artwork to help get his point across is a wonderful way that Joe Mills works. He expands his mediums to include artwork in a way that we may not usually expect to visualize, or accept, it. He is an artist who will make you think.

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