Often working with materials, images and objects that are close at hand, I strive to evoke wonder, mystery and dark humor. My projects usually start within a conceptual framework, integrating theory, research, history and personal fascinations. I am also concerned with craft, technology, materials, presence and form. Through the process of exhibiting my work, I compose experiences and relationships for the audience to discover. I attempt to create situations where the work modulates into poetry and experience can supersede understanding. - Reuben Lorch-Miller
Available Work
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IT'S IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO FUCK SOMEONE OVER, 2004
Acrylic, latex on board in artist frame
18 x 35 inches
$1,200.
100 TROPHIES, 2004
C-print with artist frame
30 x 40 inches; 32 x 42 inches framed, Ed/3
$1,600.
100 TROPHIES, 2004 (installed)
CHOPPING, 2001
DVD Ed/5
$600.
DARKNESS ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH, 2004
Acrylic, Latex on board, artist frame
22.5 x 41.25 inches, framed
$1,400.
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FORGET IT, 2004 (installed at right)
Neon sign
34 x 13 x 2.5 inches Ed/3 $2,800.
Installation of FROM THE OBLIVION:
(Guitar, Car, Mountain, Tornado, Snow and Silver), 2003
FROM THE OBLIVION (CAR, GUITAR Sold and MOUNTAIN Sold), 2005
Digital C-prints with artist frames
22 x 30 inches each; 23.25 x 31 inches each, framed
Ed/5
$900. each
FROM THE OBLIVION (SNOW, SOVEREIGN and SUNSET), 2003
Digital C-prints with artist frames
22 x 30 inches each; 23.25 x 31 inches each, framed
Ed/5
$900. each
YOUR WORST DAYS ARE COMING, 2004
Acrylic, Latex on board, artist frame, 20.5 x 35.5 inches
$1,200.
UNTITLED (SNAKE FLAG), 2005
Fabric, thread and fringe 36 x 58 inches, Multiple of 3
$2,400.
UNTITLED (LIBERTY OR DEATH), UNTITLED (GIVE UP) and UNTITLED (LIVE FOREVER), all 2005
Fabric, thread and fringe
36 x 58 inches, each, Multiple of 3
$2,400. each
THE RULES, 2002 (click to enlarge enough to read)
Suite of 4 screen prints on paper, Plexiglas, painted wood frames
22 x 32 inches each, Ed/5
Please call for current price
Additional Work
Avian, 2002
speakers, audio equipment, wire, steel rod and audio track
Click the image to hear the sound for this piece: Avian
Installed at Southern Exposure, San Francisco, 2002
"This piece consists of one-hundred and twenty 1 inch speakers hanging from the ceiling on steel rods. They are each connected separately to amplifiers by individual lengths of speaker wire. The sounds of digitally manipulated birds chirping are produced as an infinitely looping eight channel soundtrack." - Lorch-Miller
Falls, 2001
Light box with animated duratrans photograph, 9 foam and plaster speakers, with audio track, 60 x 80 x 80 inches
Click to hear the sound for this piece: Falls Installation at Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
"The piece consists of a 60 x 40 inch photographically reproduced waterfall in a light box. The waterfall is mechanically animated so that the water appears to flow. Placed around the light box are nine sculpted, shiny, white rocks. Within each of these rocks is a speaker. The sound of what seems to be a rushing waterfall is broadcast through the speakers. The audio track was made from the sound of a computer modem when online. The sound was edited and manipulated to give it depth and volume." - Lorch-Miller
Frogs, 2001
speakers, audio equipment, cardboard and audio track
Click to hear the sound for this piece: Frogs
"For this piece, I made a recording of the frogs that live in a wetlands area in the Marin Headlands, California. Living in these wetlands are hundreds, if not thousands of frogs. In the spring/summer nights they create an amazing volume of croaking sounds, filling the whole valley and surrounding hills." - Lorch-Miller
This piece plays this soundtrack through sixty-two 2 inch speakers.
The soundtrack runs infinitely.
Sculptor/Installation artist
Reuben Lorch-Miller derives inspiration from the "sense of wonder [found]
within the experience of everyday life." He is represented by Catherine
Clark Gallery in San Francisco and has his work in solo
shows at Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco; Milky World Gallery, Seattle; Arrowspace Gallery, Olympia
as well as in several group exhibitions, most recently at the San Francisco
Art Institute and Exit Art in New York.
He received the 2000 Leo Stillwell Award from San Francisco State
University. Lorch-Miller received his MFA in New Practices from San
Francisco State University and is a recipient of HCA's 2001-2002 MFA
Graduate Studio Award.
Untitled (logs), 2002 papier-mache, cardboard and paint, dimensions variable
