Devin Miles (1961) - STEVE - Diamond Dust

STEVE - Diamond Dust

Artist: Devin Miles
Edition: 75 + 10 AP
Execution: numbered on the back
Material: cotton paper with hand-torn edges
Technique: Mixed Media with Diamond Dust
Format: 59 x 42 cm
Signed by hand
with rhinestone-dust embellishments
Number: 11/75

Shipped via DHL unframed, rolled in a shipping tube

Devin Miles, artist near Hamburg, Germany: initially engaged in graphic design and painting before in 2001 applying his experience to screen printing. Although the term “Pop Art” in the 1950s was still used by art critics as a kind of insult, the meteoric rise of this new, avant-garde art movement that played with visual everyday quotations could no longer be halted in the 1960s. Today, more than 50 years later, the images and objects of yesteryear have long become a significant part of many art collections, and their motifs have also evolved into icons of modernity—for instance, think of Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans, Roy Lichtenstein’s comic paintings, or Jasper Johns’ flags.
And right into this canon of renowned Pop Art artists from back then, the painter and graphic designer Devin Miles can indeed place himself today. In a distinctive symbiosis of a sophisticated screen-printing process, free painting, and airbrushing technique, he has created a style unique to him. Devin Miles uses up to 20 screens to print his artistic visions either on brushed aluminum plates or on canvas, to stage the powerful imagery and the radiant luminosity of his works. Devin Miles’ unique stylistic direction finds its extraordinary expression in images that not only bring film stars such as Romy Schneider, Audrey Hepburn, or James Dean back to life, but also take viewers on a fascinating journey to the world’s metropolises or present them with the powerful cars of those days. His works are not only to be understood as a homage to Pop Art, telling stories from days gone by with vulnerable women, strong heroes, and fallen divas, but also as contemporary art that leaves plenty of room for personal interpretation, achieved through an incomparable text-image combination that creates entirely new content dimensions.