Miles Mendenhall | Flowers

TOA Presents is thrilled to announce the solo exhibition Miles Mendenhall: Flowers, opening on Friday, January 13.

Over the course of the last decade, Miles Mendenhall developed a printmaking process that intersects the experimental histories of early photography and abstract expressionistic painting. Using gelatin, pigment and photographic chemistry, he creates monoprints that exist between worlds – hallucinogenic fractures where comprehension stutters and swirls. The debut collection of monoprints featured in Flowers proffers a fluidity of color and gesture held together by a single image of lilies. The intersections of photography and painting in each work dazzle and disturb, their repetitive mania insisting upon the viewer’s attention.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Miles Mendenhall (b. 1986, Burnsville, MN) cultivates the possible through an intense dedication to his studio laboratory. Working with a combination of advanced digital tools and archaic analog printmaking techniques, he plies the depths of the visual world in service of unique surfaces. Working serially and with a keen eye to approaches normally associated with painting and sculpture, Mendenhall’s artworks represent specific moments through which the totality of his vision – one which he is constantly developing through intuition and complex gestures – become fixed in time and space.

Image: Miles Mendenhall, Flowers (07.25), 2022, Gelatin and pigment on paper mounted to Baltic birch panel, 54 x 41 inches