ThreeWalls Announces: Chris Millar: Boiyd Howses and Other Hatstands September 7, 2007

Opening Reception: Friday, September 7, 2007, 6:00 – 9:00 PM
On View: September 7, 2007 – October 13, 2007

CHICAGO: ThreeWalls announces the launch of their new program, the SOLO project, opening in conjunction with their new season of residency and group exhibitions. On view in Gallery 2D: ThreeWalls’ summer resident, painter Chris Millar (Calgary, Alberta), and in Gallery 2A, SOLO: Cayetano Ferrer (Chicago).

Self-described as ‘post-interesting,’ Chris Millar’s paintings assiduously avoid self-importance and restraint; instead, they are scrupulously excessive and immoderate, and at heart, ridiculous. Pulling from comic books, punk, television, the art world and pop culture in general, Millar’s paintings put spoof through a blender, chewing up narrative arcs and spitting them back out in a vortex of idiom, ribaldry and farce. Building his paintings, literally, through a multitude of processes and acrylic layers (including dimensional footnotes that exceed the frame), Millar’s craft is impeccable. Like a Faberge egg or Indian miniature the results are fetishistic, outrageously decadent illustrations of human-folly that while both overwhelming and seductive, are the ultimate construction for a turbo-culture world.

Chris Millar has exhibited his fussy paintings throughout Canada and Europe, and is a current finalist in RBC Canadian Painting Competition. His work has been reviewed in Canadian Art, Legacy Magazine and The Edmonton Journal. Millar is represented in Canada by TrépanierBaer Gallery in Calgary. This is first exhibition in the United States.

On Tuesday, September 11, 2007 at 7:30 PM, ThreeWalls will host an Artist-In-Residence talk. Chris Millar will guide the audience through his painting, Eddie got Borsched, which chronicles a missing episode of the sit-com Frasier where Dr. Crane transforms into a rabid werewolf-psychiatrist. The painting will be projected in large scale so Millar can lead us, with a laser pointer, through every detail of the comedy, tragedy and mystery of his interpretation on the life of “Chrasier” Crane.

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