Am I the only one who can't see the images posted? Just says update account to allow third party hosting.
Unless of course this is the direction HM is going in

the new Harland miller exhibition will constitute of 3 new contents; Psychology Paintings, Letter Paintings, Hell Paintings.

Supposedly no limited edition release for this show.

I spoke to White Cube and they have said no print for this show.

Looking forward to this. Gonna be great in the flesh!

Unfortunately I won't be there Thursday night as I'll be at the Kings of Leon gig in Hyde Park.

Will be meeting up with a few members Wednesday night though if anybody wants to pop along and say hello.

That's not true! I bought .dappy a cup of tea the last time I saw him...

But seriously, first round....of water is on me 

Don't worry pal....

There's IMMEDIATE RELIEF   ..... coming soon

Harland Miller
One Bar Electric Memoir
Preview: Thursday 6 July, 6-8pm
7 July – 9 September 2017
Mason's Yard

White Cube is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Harland Miller at Mason’s Yard. ‘One Bar Electric Memoir’ includes two series’ of paintings that continue and expand Miller’s investigation into the relationship between viewer, text and image.

The first series of large-scale works draws on Miller’s extensive archive of psychology and social science books, which date from the 1960s and 1970s. Characterised by their bold and colourful abstract covers, these books embrace a positive attitude and the possibility of ‘fixing’ disorders through a process of self-help. The geometric cover designs not only drew parallels with contemporary abstract painting, but also provided a foil to the darker aspects of social neurosis addressed by the books content. As Miller has commented, they hail ‘from that very particular, positive, post-war era when information was being made more available and being hungered for, too. It was often practical and pre-jargon and to do with fixing things – fixing society, fixing yourself...’.

In Miller’s paintings, three-dimensional architectonic forms in bright, pop colours float against solid saturated backgrounds and are paired with fictional, sardonically humorous titles such as Armageddon – is it too much to ask? (2017), Reverse Psychology isn’t working (2017) and Immediate Relief... Coming Soon (2017). Occasionally, the same title appears on different compositions, highlighting how colour, form and context can change both the rhythm and meaning of words. Similarly to the titles, Miller’s abstract imagery can also be read in different ways. Commenting on the work Armageddon – is it too much to ask?, for example, he says: ‘It’s an image that you see one way – then, when you relax, it flips and, no matter how hard you try, you can’t see it the original way. It’s symbolic of the way you read the title.’ These works reflect a departure for the artist, whose previous series of Penguin paperback paintings were re-appropriations of an existing object. Here, for the first time, Miller creates his own designs, focusing more closely on the impact of the image itself.

In another series of fictional book cover paintings, Miller depicts the outlines of letters in a range of typefaces and bright colours, intersected or layered over each other to create short, enigmatic words such as ‘up’ or ‘bi’. Through a process of isolation, overlaying and re-connecting, Miller creates a sense of depth in the image that deconstructs and abstracts the meaning of language itself. With their bold, saturated colours, these paintings reference American abstraction and, in particular Robert Rauschenberg and Ed Ruscha’s use of vernacular signage and motifs. Miller has said about this series: ‘The idea is to make paintings that are just words, in contrast to the titles of previous works’.

In both series’ of paintings the artist continues to use his own name as author. While the presence of Miller’s name alludes to the actual authorship of both image and text, fact and fiction become blurred, allowing for the artist’s deadpan humour to provoke, question and draw attention to the context and content of each work.

In 2018, Harland Miller presents a five part series with the same title, ‘One Bar Electric Memoir’ for BBC Radio 3.

Harland Miller was born in Yorkshire in 1964 and lives and works in London. Group exhibitions include ‘Fools Rain’, ICA, London (1996); ‘Direct Painting’, Kunsthalle, Mannheim (2004); ‘Summer Exhibition’, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2005, 2006) and ‘The Sculpture in the Close’, Jesus College, Cambridge (2013). Solo exhibitions include ‘Don't Let the Bastards Cheer You Up’, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (2009) and ‘The Next Life’s On Me’, White Cube Hoxton Square, London (2012). In 2008 Miller curated a group exhibition, ‘You dig the tunnel, I'll hide the soil’ staged across two venues, White Cube Hoxton Square and Shoreditch Town Hall, in London. 

Loving the news of a radio series in 2018! Great stuff.

Found some images of the upcoming show and thought posting them here might be helpful for people who can't get down to London.



***SPOILER*** if you want to see these in person first, look away now!

I don't know. "Armageddon" and "Immediate Relief" are pretty fantastic.

I've only just noticed the cubes changing from one direction to the other Think that's really cool, immediate relief coming soon is my favourite.

They're not editions.