Devin Miles (1961) - AMERICAN BOY

STEVE - Diamond Dust

Artist: Devin Miles
Edition: 75 + 10 AP
Execution: numbered on the back
Material: heavyweight drawing paper (rag) with hand-torn edges
Technique: Mixed Media with Diamond Dust
Format: 59 x 42 cm
Number: 14/75

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Devin Miles: Artist near Hamburg, Germany: initially engaged in graphic design and painting before applying his experience in screen printing in 2001. Although the term "Pop Art" in the 1950s was still circulated by art critics as a bit of an insult, the rise of this new, avant-garde movement that played with visual everyday quotations could no longer be stopped 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 meanwhile evolved into icons of modernity—just think of Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans, Roy Lichtenstein’s comic paintings, or Jasper Johns’s flags.
And it is precisely into this canon of renowned Pop Art artists from back then that today’s painter and graphic designer Devin Miles can also place himself. In a distinctive symbiosis of sophisticated screen printing, free painting, and airbrush techniques, he has created a style all his own. 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 brilliance of his works. Devin Miles’s unique style finds its extraordinary expression in pictures that not only bring film stars like Romy Schneider, Audrey Hepburn, or James Dean back to life, but also invite viewers on a fascinating journey to the metropolises of the world or present the powerful cars of yesterday. His works are not only to be understood as an homage to Pop Art, telling stories from bygone days with vulnerable women, strong heroes, and fallen divas, but also as modern art that leaves plenty of room for personal interpretation, achieved through an unparalleled text-image combination that creates entirely new conceptual dimensions.