Gallery Geranmayeh is pleased to present "Thereafter," the gallery's first solo exhibition of works by New York based artist Steven Millar. The exhibition features Millar's works from recent series produced in tandem, including sculptures, photographs, and an artist's book.

 

Millar has described his work as exploring themes of intersection: of the built world, society, and nature; home and community; memory and loss. In "Thereafter," Millar maintains a focus on the connection between memory and place, and the central ideas of time, longing, and displacement. The work investigates commemoration and references various forms of memorial markers -stones with metal plaques that honor a place, event, or vista. 

 

Millar's sculptures give tangible form to the evanescent experience of memory as they embody that which is past or lost. The sculptures present an uncertain form of memento mori, memorialization in which the object of commemoration remains unknown. In the end, one feels that these sculptures bear witness to a more universalized state of absence and loss.