NYAB Event - H. Hugh Miller “Vanishing Horizons / Expanding Visions”

H. Hugh Miller “Vanishing Horizons / Expanding Visions”

Onishi Gallery

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To celebrate its upcoming expansion of exhibition space in its Chelsea location, Onishi Project welcomes back onto its walls the work of photographer H. Hugh Miller. In this fresh body of work, Miller explores the horizon – in Europe, Asia, America and Antarctica; on land and at sea; during day and at night. Miller describes the horizon as, “a vast space that we think of as just a line,” and, as “a place where what we see separates from what we imagine.” This vividly colored series of figurative and abstracted images raises questions about the seen and unseen at the reaches of our vision.

Washed in the cool shades of dawn and dusk, saturated with hot rays of golden light, and animated by sheens of reflection on water, Miller’s photographs draw viewers’ eyes into a world of visual depth and aesthetic complexity. In his landscapes, Miller captures textures that exist in symbiotic yet unexpected relationships all around us—they are silky and rough, smooth and jagged, soft and sharp—and all united by the line of forever, the insistent yet invisible horizon. Miller’s images envision both the dreamy fantasy of an untouched world of water, earth, wind, and fire, and the crisp reality of human intervention, by both hand and eye. He brings together the light and dark, the solid and liquid, the center and the edge, for a moment of exquisite reflection at a point that you know and you feel, if you cannot see.

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