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MCALPINE MILLER WHEN POP CULTURE MEETS AMODERNMASTER Stuart McAlpine Miller is renowned for his unique photorealistic works whose pop culture references hide in plain sight an acerbic comment onmodern society. His art is becoming increasingly popular – and it’s taking him Stateside for his American debut.
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t took him years to achieve the recognition he so richly deserves, but McAlpine Miller is now lauded as one of the most exciting and most collectible
Now, the gallery, under the auspices of director Philippe Hoerle-Guggenheim, is unleashing the work of the Scottish artist, a former artist in residence at The Savoy Hotel, London, on art lovers in the Big Apple. The Hoerle-Guggenheim portfolio comprises 24 original photorealistic oil paintings, all in his distinctive collage style and all of which draw upon the popular culture themes that have made his name. Inspired by today’s society, the imagination of childhood and an innate understanding of people and his surroundings, McAlpine Miller uses Disney and Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters, Marvel superheroes, commercial imagery and text, as well as representations of strong, confident women. The disparate elements within each of his paintings are depicted in subtle tones and translucent layers that overlap and fade into one another like a dreamscape that blurs reality and fantasy; it is a visual reference to the »
artists of his generation. Blending popular culture with the skills of a fine arts Master, the Castle Galleries artist has a reputation as a visionary, as a witty commentator on popular culture, and as a painter whose humour punctures accepted wisdom and challenges society’s conventions. It is these qualities – plus his superlative eye for photorealism – that have secured himhis first month-long solo exhibition in the USA at The Hoerle-GuggenheimGallery, in New York’s Chelsea district. The gallery opened its doors for the first time in the autumn of 2014 and is already known for attracting some of the most renowned contemporary artists, having already exhibited RETNA, Peter Beard, and Raphael Mazzucco.
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