The Electrostatic Man: The Art of Miller Horns

Opening reception: 5:30-8pm Friday Jan. 27, 2017.

Miller Horns (1948 – 2012), an Akron artist and community activist, was known for his innovative, autobiographic prints created with a combination of electrostatic technology (Xerox), thermal-heat-color-transfer and lamination. Horns often worked in large scale, tiling together many smaller copies to create life-size images of people, animals and everyday objects. While electrostatic art has existed since the 1960s, it is this grand size, as well as Horn’s ability to produce a wide array of textures and vibrant colors that make his work unique.

Miller’s subject matter varies widely, from warm reflections of daily life to intimate emotional confessions and historic documentation. Frequent themes include meditations on grief, love, the production of art, race in America society and the often-overlooked contributions of African-Americans to the development of Northeast Ohio.

Horns studied Commercial Art at the University of Akron and earned his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art. In 1989, Horns was selected to receive the prestigious Rome Prize Fellowship, and lived at the American Academy in Rome for a year. Horns completed numerous public commissions including murals for the Akron Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the Maple Valley Branch Library in Akron, Ohio.

Website: http://www.artistsarchives.org/event/the-electrostatic-man-the-art-of-miller-horns/