Work
RUINOUS RAVISHMENT installation view
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Jester Jouster Voyager Cosmic Strutter) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic | 34 x 23 x 21 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Jester Jouster Voyager Cosmic Strutter) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic | 34 x 23 x 21 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Jester Jouster Voyager Cosmic Strutter) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic | 34 x 23 x 21 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Sleepy Hollow Patty Melt with You) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic, hi-temp epoxy | 34 x 17 x 15 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Jester Jouster Voyager Cosmic Strutter) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic | 34 x 23 x 21 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Jester Jouster Voyager Cosmic Strutter) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic | 34 x 23 x 21 inches
RUINOUS RAVISHMENT installation view
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Sleepy Hollow Patty Melt with You) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic, hi-temp epoxy | 34 x 17 x 15 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Jester Jouster Voyager Cosmic Strutter) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic | 34 x 23 x 21 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Sleepy Hollow Patty Melt with You) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic, hi-temp epoxy | 34 x 17 x 15 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Sleepy Hollow Patty Melt with You) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic, hi-temp epoxy | 34 x 17 x 15 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Sleepy Hollow Patty Melt with You) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic, hi-temp epoxy | 34 x 17 x 15 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Sleepy Hollow Patty Melt with You) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic, hi-temp epoxy | 34 x 17 x 15 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Green Babel Belcher) | 2020 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic, hi-temp epoxy | 40 x 20 x 16 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Green Babel Belcher) | 2020 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic, hi-temp epoxy | 40 x 20 x 16 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Green Babel Belcher) | 2020 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic, hi-temp epoxy | 40 x 20 x 16 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Green Babel Belcher) | 2020 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic, hi-temp epoxy | 40 x 20 x 16 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Green Babel Belcher) | 2020 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic, hi-temp epoxy | 40 x 20 x 16 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Pink Orange Red) | 2021 |hi-temp (cone 10 equivalent), electric-fired, glazed semi- vitreous ceramic | 24.5 x 18.5 x 16 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Kermit Rex Zep) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic | 22.5 x 23.5 x 15 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Kermit Rex Zep) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic | 22.5 x 23.5 x 15 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Kermit Rex Zep) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic | 22.5 x 23.5 x 15 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Kermit Rex Zep) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic | 22.5 x 23.5 x 15 inches
RUINOUS RAVISHMENT installation view
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Pink Orange Red) | 2021 |hi-temp (cone 10 equivalent), electric-fired, glazed semi- vitreous ceramic | 24.5 x 18.5 x 16 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Pink Orange Red) | 2021 |hi-temp (cone 10 equivalent), electric-fired, glazed semi- vitreous ceramic | 24.5 x 18.5 x 16 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Pink Orange Red) | 2021 |hi-temp (cone 10 equivalent), electric-fired, glazed semi- vitreous ceramic | 24.5 x 18.5 x 16 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Pink Orange Red) | 2021 |hi-temp (cone 10 equivalent), electric-fired, glazed semi- vitreous ceramic | 24.5 x 18.5 x 16 inches
Installation View: Ruinous Ravishment, 2023
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Sleepy Hollow Patty Melt with You) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic, hi-temp epoxy | 34 x 17 x 15 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Jester Jouster Voyager Cosmic Strutter) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic | 34 x 23 x 21 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Jester Jouster Voyager Cosmic Strutter) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic | 34 x 23 x 21 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Shoegazer Stargazer Submariner) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic, hi-temp epoxy | 27.5 x 20 x 16 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Shoegazer Stargazer Submariner) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic, hi-temp epoxy | 27.5 x 20 x 16 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Shoegazer Stargazer Submariner) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic, hi-temp epoxy | 27.5 x 20 x 16 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Doughboy) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10 equivalent), electric-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic | 16.5 X 15.5 X 14 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Doughboy) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10 equivalent), electric-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic | 16.5 X 15.5 X 14 inches
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Doughboy) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10 equivalent), electric-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic | 16.5 X 15.5 X 14 inches
Installation View: Christopher Miles & Brad Brown exhibition, 2020, San Francisco
Installation View: Christopher Miles & Brad Brown exhibition, 2020, San Francisco
Private Collection
Private Collection
Installation View: Christopher Miles & Brad Brown exhibition, 2020, San Francisco
Installation View: Christopher Miles & Brad Brown exhibition, 2020, San Francisco
Private Collection
Installation View: Christopher Miles & Brad Brown exhibition, 2020, San Francisco
Installation View: Christopher Miles & Brad Brown exhibition, 2020, San Francisco
Installation View: Christopher Miles & Brad Brown exhibition, 2020, San Francisco
Installation View: Christopher Miles & Brad Brown exhibition, 2020, San Francisco
Exhibition View: Ruins of Ravishment
Christopher Miles | Untitled (Jester Jouster Voyager Cosmic Strutter) | 2021 | hi-temp (cone 10), oxidation-fired, glazed semi-vitreous ceramic | 34 x 23 x 21 inches
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BIO
Christopher Miles’ sculptures suggest the architecture of biological systems, with mysterious interstitial passages forming mutable interior and exterior contours. His painterly glazing presents an amalgamate of thick, fleshy colors, dipped, poured, oozing over and through the clay body. With elongated trunks and spreading appendages, the sheer physicality and balance of the forms is striking. With influences as diverse as Lynda Benglis, Lee Bontecou and Ruth Duckworth, Miles has carved out an ambitious sculptural practice, pushing material limits with a conceptual rigor uniquely his own. Contrary to strict formality, his objects are rife with eloquence, wit, humor and pathos. The exhibition includes several new sculptures hot from the kiln.
Christopher Miles is an artist, curator, writer, and educator who has been on the faculty of the School of Art at California State University Long Beach since 1998. Since 2016, he has served as head of the CSULB Ceramic Arts Program, and he is the Director of the CSULB Center for Contemporary Ceramics.
Patricia Sweetow Gallery first presented Christopher Miles in a two-person exhibition in January of 2020 in San Francisco. Earlier in his professional life, Miles focused as a curator and writer of art journalism and criticism. Between 1995 and 2010, he was published in numerous journals, including American Ceramics, Art & Auction, Artforum International, Art in America, Art Lies, Art Nexus, Art Papers, Artext, Artweek, dArt, Flash Art, Flaunt, Frieze, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Tate Etc., Tema Celeste, X-TRA and other publications. He’s contributed catalog and exhibition essays for projects at venues including the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Las Vegas Art Museum, the Luckman Art Center at Cal State LA, the Montgomery Gallery at Pomona College (now the Pomona College Museum of Art), the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Chris received a 2004 Penny McCall Award for his work as a writer and curator, and received a 2005 award for “Best Thematic Exhibition Nationally” from AICA-USA, the United States chapter of the International Association of Art Critics, for the Hammer Museum’s survey exhibition THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, which Chris co-curated with James Elaine and Aimee Chang. In 2010, Chris worked with co-curator Kris Kuramitsu to organize the Los Angeles participation in the 2010 ARCOmadrid International Contemporary Art Fair, and the exhibition L.A. Invisible City at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid.