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Dan Miller at Ricco Maresca Gallery

We were excited to catch up with Frank Maresca of Ricco Maresca Gallery in New York about their newest project.  Ricco Maresca Gallery has teamed up with the Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California to bring you their exhibit “Dan Miller Large Drawings“.  Go see it!  The exhibition runs through August 20, 2010.  For more information visit Ricco Maresca Gallery’s website here.

Dan Miller-courtesy of Ricco Maresca Gallery

But don’t just take our word for it, check out the art review in Time Out New York.

Now in his late forties, Dan Miller is a 20-year veteran of the studio art program at Oakland’s Creative Growth Art Center, an organization for adults with disabilities that has also nurtured such talents as Judith Scott and Dwight Macintosh. Miller, who is autistic, has limited verbal capabilities. In spite of this, or perhaps because of it, he uses language as the basis for his drawings, which consist of dense, mostly illegible accretions of words, phrases, letters and numbers that serve as a record of the artist’s life and obsessions. Read more…

Watch the video created for the exhibit by Michael Hall.

Dan Miller – Large Paintings from CGAC VPW on Vimeo.

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