Rendered in white charcoal pencil on papers of various colors, JEFF MILLER’s fluidly elegant figure drawings
– male nudes, in the main – represent a Covid-era departure from JEFF MILLER’s customary practice. No longer able to draw the live model, the artist was obliged to step out of the world of 3 dimensions and rely on the 2-dimensional world of photography, a resort the artist would previously have strictly shunned. JEFF MILLER says: “To my surprise, this loss was also a gain. Online, there

is an endless supply of highly inspiring images, most notable of dancers caught — often literally — in mid- flight, and otherwise in beautifully complicated attitudes that a model (even a dancer!) could never hold in real life.”

The fruits of JEFF MILLER’s house-bound excursions have been choreographed on the walls of ATLANTIC GALLERY for this show.

As a counterweight to the line drawings in view, STEPPING OUT! Includes sculptural works which, while contrastingly realistic in treatment, nevertheless evince some surprising stylistic continuities with the artist’s graphic productions.

JEFF MILLER is a New York-based figurative artist. More of his work can be seen at www.jeffmillerdrawings.com, on Instagram @jeff.graphos.miller and in Issue 11 of JuturnaMagazine, which is wholly devoted to his work.