With language, we divide the world into opposites. Light and dark, hot and cold, good and evil… From a broader perspective these opposites can collapse: if there can be no inside without an outside, no life without death, in what meaningful sense do these words actually represent separate things?
Miles Johnston
In Miles Johnston’s upcoming solo show Liminality at Harman Projects in New York, the signature push and pull imbued into Miles’ art is explored even further through this thoughtful selection of works. Marking his first exhibition in six years, Liminality’s artworks feature poignant symbolic moments. Featuring drawings in graphite and ink, as well as paintings in oil and watercolour, each delicately ambiguous scene invites personal introspection, once again showing Miles’ gift to connect with viewers on multiple levels and encourage open conversation about meaning and our unique perspectives.
Alongside the unveiling of his most recent series, the opening reception this Saturday will also mark the release of Miles Johnston’s debit monograph Liminality. Celebrated as a 256-page tome, the publication details Miles’ practice from 2016 and to the current day with incredible detail, reproducing every step of his practice from the initial thumbnail sketches and through to the final works. For those of you who are interested in learning more about the inner workings of this artist’s mind, the Liminality monograph also features numerous personal texts by Miles to further supplement this visionary diary of his evolution into one of today’s most introspective creatives.
Issue #23 artist Miles Johnston will be personally signing copies of the publication from 6pm – 7pm, before the main reception at Harman Projects.
Miles Johnston: Liminality
Exhibition Dates: December 14th, 2024 – January 4th, 2025
Book signing: Saturday December 14, 6pm – 7pm.
Opening reception: Saturday December 14, 7pm – 8pm.
Harman Projects
54 Ludlow Street, New York, NY 10002
Phone: +1 310-730-6164
Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm
For further information email [email protected].
From press release //
The subjects found in Miles Johnston’s work outwardly represent their inner states, from love to fear and every emotion in between. Johnston explores the human condition through a richly developed language of visual symbolism where intimacy and interconnectivity are repeating themes in the artist’s work. Lovers intertwine and embrace, hinting at a deep longing for human connection as is seen in Attachment and Bound. Alternatively, themes of loneliness and ostracism come to the forefront in works such as Extinguished and Countercurrent.
About the Gallery //
Harman Projects was founded in 2022 by curator and gallerist Ken Harman Hashimoto. Our goal is to provide an inclusive and welcoming environment to foster a community of likeminded artists, collectors, and art lovers in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and beyond. The focus at Harman Projects is broad but lies mainly in the New Contemporary genre, encompassing historical movements such as New York City graffiti and SoCal pop- surrealism alongside contemporary schools of art such as Bay Area abstracted realism, International muralism and Japanese-inspired SuperFlat.
About Miles Johnston //
Miles Johnston is a Sweden based artist originally from Hampshire, England. Working primarily in graphite and oils, and using the human form as a vehicle, he attempts to process the intensity and profound strangeness of the collective human experience. The distortions and transformations his subjects undergo serve to represent the experience of our internal state during crucial moments in our lives. Instead of focusing on literal representation s of the world Johnston depicts the surreal and abstract qualities of our subjectivity with the goal of creating work with a deep emotional resonance.
