Artist Statement
Dairy Diary by Jason Miller Dairy Diary is an ongoing straight photography series wherein I insert myself into various grocery store dairy coolers and display cases where products are housed for domesticated human consumption.
Often, in my Dairy Diary Series, the human subject is dwarfed and isolated by the products, which he or she reaches for on the shelves. To me this references the metaphorical question, which asks if we, ourselves, are not becoming more and more the products.
Abbreviated (Multi-Disipline)
Jason N. Miller is an artist, curator, museum professional, and gallerist. He serves on the Board of Directors for Number: Inc Magazine. He founded Masonic Contemporary at Scottish Rite of Memphis non-profit 501(c)(3) and the Circuitous Succession Series that led to the formation of the commercial gallery of the same name. Miller serves at the Art Museum of the University of Memphis and maintains an art practice that includes public and private mural commissions, museum and gallery exhibitions, as well as art productions working with diverse individuals ranging from established artists to the homeless. Miller teaches digital art part-time at The University of Memphis and leads workshops that engage the community–also, serving as a member of the Women’s History Month Executive Committee at The University of Memphis. Learn more about Miller’s art projects at circuitoussuccession.com, soulrecorder.org, masoniccontemporary.org, and memphis.edu/amum.
Extended (Artist Specific)
Jason Miller honors the concept that an artist should select suitable medium based on each idea, rather than committing solely to only one form of media or field. Experimentation is a constant throughout his work. Miller creates photographs, complex imagery, sculptures, paintings, songs, and poetry. Often Miller focuses on generating conceptually driven images in-studio, Memphis, TN, his native city wherein he obtained his Master of Fine Arts Degree from The University of Memphis.
As an artist, in the field of New Media Two-Dimensional Art, Miller’s work has been selected for exhibition by prestigious jurors including Alice Gray Stites, Carl Belz, Brian Rutenberg, Peter Frank, Meredith Ward, Peter Schjedahl, Fr. Terrence E. Dempsey, Dr. Ellen “Nan” Plummer, Charles Reeve, Beauvais Lyons, Gail Roberts, and Photographer’s Forum Magazine. Miller has received awards from internationally renowned jurors including Chakaia Booker, Don Gregorio, Robert J. Sanchez and Emiko René Lewis-Sanchez, and the American Civil Liberties Union. Other awards include Visual Overture Magazine’s Artist of the Week Award and Oxford American 100 most important artists in the South for the 2012 Visual South Issue, 76. Miller’s Dairy Diary series was featured in Vol. 35 of Seoul Korea’s Photo+ Magazine, and additionally included in Photo Eye Gallery’s Art Photo Index in March of 2013.
Miller has completed image driven art commissions for the City of Memphis, Loeb Properties, and Le Bonheur Children's Hospital. Most recently sculpture works by Miller have been selected by preeminent jurors for inclusion both in the Arkansas Art Center’s 56th Annual Delta Exhibition and Number Presents: Artists of the South, and Miller was selected for inclusion in the Winter Edition of Studio Visit Magazine by juror Carl Belz. Miller's film UPC Sex is included in Stigmart Magazine's 2014 Film Biennial Edition, VIDEOFOCUS.
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