Details:

This bronze statuette, the last in an edition of three, depicts Hollywood actor Lupe Vélez wearing an outfit from Hussein Chalayan's Autumn/Winter 2000 collection. The statuette's verdigris patina was commonly used by sculptors of the Art Deco period, meant to resemble the green patinas of ancient sculptures rescued from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. Its pose is reminiscent of fashion models as they glide along the runway, bringing a calm confidence to the intriguing combination of early 20th-century celebrity and early 21st-century fashion.
Unframed
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
This is edition 3 of 3

① Artwork:

Lupe Vélez in Hussein Chalayan A/W 2000

This bronze statuette, the last in an edition of three, depicts Hollywood actor Lupe Vélez wearing an outfit from Hussein Chalayan's Autumn/Winter 2000 collection. The statuette's verdigris patina was commonly used by sculptors of the Art Deco period, meant to resemble the green patinas of ancient sculptures rescued from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. Its pose is reminiscent of fashion models as they glide along the runway, bringing a calm confidence to the intriguing combination of early 20th-century celebrity and early 21st-century fashion.

Nicolas G. Miller addresses the temporality of both sculpture and fashion by staging encounters with the historicity of sculpture and its refraction through the prism of his hometown, Los Angeles. Miller uses state-of-the-art digital 3D sculpting and printing to produce intricate artworks in various materials, including bronze and painted resin. His art often references the cyclical return of fashions while questioning the effects of technology on our shared search for a meaningful past.

Specs:

4.5 inches
16.3 inches
10.5 inches
16.3 inches

③ Artist:

Nicolas G Miller

Nicolas G. Miller addresses the temporality of both sculpture and fashion by staging encounters with the historicity of sculpture and its refraction through the prism of his hometown, Los Angeles. Miller uses state-of-the-art digital 3D sculpting and printing to produce intricate artworks in various materials, including bronze and painted resin. He is keenly interested in the resurgence of techniques such as bas-relief and sculptural modeling. Miller's artworks often reference the cyclical return of fashions while questioning the effects of technology on our shared search for a meaningful past.

Nicolas G. Miller was born in 1984 in Honolulu, Hawaii, and lives in Los Angeles, CA. Miller received an MFA from the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine in Irvine, CA (2019).

He has mounted recent solo and two-person exhibitions at Timeshare in Los Angeles, CA (2024); Castle Gallery in Los Angeles, CA (2023); and SOLDES in Los Angeles, CA (2021).

Miller has participated in group exhibitions at SOLDES in Los Angeles, CA (2023) and Ben Hunter Gallery in London, UK (2022).

Nicolas G Miller:
Lupe Vélez in Hussein Chalayan A/W 2000, 2022
Patinated bronze
16.3 × 4.5 × 10.5 inches /