Abbie Miller at the Teton Art Lab

Abbie Miller is exhibiting this week at the Teton Art Lab, In Proximity Tender: Render.

I have been to her studio and her work is amazing! This piece was done with fabric, zippers, and a wooden frame. You can see more of her work from a review of Centrifugal Force, a show at Russell Industrial in Detroit.

"Miller’s sewed sheets of vinyl together with an evolving repetition. While building the sculpture, she sewed into it two-hundred-foot-long zippers that, when zipped up, spiral the fabric into cylinder-like forms that rest – or loosely teeter - on two built wooden frames. Each piece has two forms that counterbalance each other with a strand that reaches across the room like pulled taffy.The texture is ribbed with folds of vinyl that sometimes bubble or pock with a vigor that has a mind of its own. The human-scaled forms help viewers relate to the “controlled chaos” or “organized erratics” they exhibit.From the excesses of fashion to the repetition of cancerous growths (like berle wood), references can be drawn from the sculpture. But the artist refused to share her intention, other than to say she was exploring the interactions between materials and focusing on the “ambiguity” of the forms." ...continue reading the review of her current show.

Abbie recently began working with the Teton Art Lab as head of exhibitions. Congratulations on a great show and the future growth of the contemporary art scene in Jackson Hole.