I am Making Art Too
2003
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This video addresses John Baldessari’s 1971 video-performance piece, I am Making Art, with humor and scrutiny. The younger artist, Miller, brings Baldessari’s tai chi-esque movements into contemporary times by transforming his original meditative gestures into breakdancing moves. Miller then inserts herself into the new video footage and dances around Baldessari. Missy Elliott’s Work It backs up the new Baldessari-Miller collaborative dance. The three artists (Baldessari, Elliott, and Miller) form a new collaboration, a trio that references. The video approaches a variety of questions relating to: women’s roles in art history, younger artists’ attempts at appropriation/homage, the nature of the artistic gesture in video art, and the possibility of humor acting as a vehicle to raise such issues.
All I am Making Art footage used with the enthusiastic permission of John Baldessari.
Jill Miller
Born 1975 in USA
Lives and works in San Francisco and Los Angeles
education
2004 MFA, University of California - Los Angeles
1999 BA, University of California - Berkeley, summa cum laude
exhibitions (selection)
2006
Wohin Mit ben Alten, Galerie Olas Stüber, Berlin
Mobile, FRAC Ile de France, espace Landowski, Boulogne Billancourt
Maes & Mattys gallery, Anvers
2005
EAST 05, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK
Bloomberg Gallery, London, UK
Echo/Anti-Echo, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
I am Making Art Too, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
DIVA, Galerie Anne Barrault, New York, USA
Tonight We Are Golden, Touring Video Program, S1 Artspace, UK
Videoclipping, Bomba Ecra de Prata, Lisbon, Portugal
2004
LOOP, Galerie Anne Barrault, Barcelona, Spain
FIAC, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris, France
Performance Anxiety, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Hard Pop Internationale, MAMA, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Supersonic, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Repeat Performance, Artists Space, New York, New York
Island Film and Video Festival, Prenelle Gallery, London, England
I’d Rather Jack, S1 Artspace, Sheffield, England
MFA Thesis Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Making, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), CA, 2002-2003
Clean, GV/AS, Brooklyn, New York
2002
Hospitality House Benefit, Braunstein-Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Video Screening, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Coed Dorm Shower, online / The Point Gallery, New York, New York
2001
Video Screening, Rx Gallery/blasthaus, San Francisco, CA
New Fangle, Herbst International Exhibition Hall, Presidio, San Francisco
Video Screening, Galapagos, Brooklyn, New York
Video Screening, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1999
Video Screening, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Potluck, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
grants and fellowships
2003
D’arcy Hayman Award, UCLA
Hoyt Award, UCLA
Edward J. and Alice Mae Smith Award, UCLA
2002
D’arcy Hayman Award, UCLA
2001
Edward J. and Alice Mae Smith Award, UCLA
1998
Chancellor's Discretionary Award, UC Berkeley
bibliography
ArtNet, Super-California, August 2004, review by Patrick W. Deegan
New York Times, Art in Review, June 11, 2004, review by Ken Johnson
New Yorker, Goings on About Town, June 28, 2004, review
Muffy! Magazine, Cupcake’s World, Fall 2002, interview by Carly Earnshaw
NY Arts Magazine, Women Net Artists, March 2002, cover and article by Margaret Penny
Sandbox Magazine #9, Sugar and Spice, 2000, cover and interview by Sylvie Myerson
Playboy.com, Art dot com, 2000, article by David Pescovitz
Tofu Magazine, The Adventures of Cupcake, Fall 2000, Photo Essay
visiting artist lectures
2002
Art After Feminism, Women’s Studies Department, University of California – Santa Cruz
2001
New Fangle Lecture Series, Presidio, San Francisco, CA
Women and Media Arts Series, Blasthaus, San Francisco, CA
Introduction to Visual Thinking, Art Department, University of California - Berkeley
public collections
Comunidad de Madrid, Spain
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