Remy Miller

Abstract Paintings (2017-1986)

In 1986, I made the decision to pursue abstraction after a year or so of skirting the issue with semi-abstract landscapes.  For a time, I banished any obvious representational sources of imagery and began to experiment with process-derived pictures as a way of determining just how one makes abstract paintings when one has never done so before. Over the years, the supports I painted on became more three-dimensional and often involved multiple panels of various sizes and depths.  If I worked on rectangles, they tended to be extended horizontals or tall verticals.  Imagery began to be thematically related and because of that, often only semi-abstract. Nothing in painting is pure. I do what I think is necessary to achieve the idea I am after.  The one thing that is consistent now is that the larger paintings on wood tend to be abstract and the works on paper tend to be representational.