geoffreyowenmiller

Blane De St. Croix II

After the success of the upside down mountain, I was asked to be lead assistant for a similar project at Socrates Sculpture Park. As with the first installation this was built entirely outdoors, though this time the weather was often just above freezing. We used a chain saw and foam tools to shape large foam blocks (supposedly sourced from the World Trade Center). This was then covered in a latex stucco and then painted to create the look of real rock, much like a massive model train set. 

I created some digital models to reduce the amount of waste foam being blown in the East River.  But with the perpetual issues of difficult weather conditions, problematic materials, and equipment failures it was decided it would add even more unknowns to contend with. Painting the rock texture was the most enjoyable part of the process. But what I remember most was how the rough stucco put holes in all the fingers of a whole box of rubber coated work gloves but we still needed to apply more. I had intensely exfoliated palms that week.

(Image from his website)

Allan McCollum

Installed works, Elmurst Library, FDA building outside of Washington DC, and various Armory shows, as well as worked in the warehouse.

(Image by Allan McCollum)

Tom Friedman

Our graduate school had a chance to work with Tom Friedman's studio. At the time he was working on a retrospective show and book and asked us to come up with ideas for a print that would accompany the book. Working on paintings of explosions at the time, I came up with the idea to layer semi-transparent images of all his works to create an image that looked like something between a ball of energy and an explosion. Tom liked the idea and printed a series of posters. 

Frontier Restaurant.

A well-known and longtime favorite restaurant in Albuquerque. On the wall are many images of the John Wayne in all sorts of mediums collected over the decades.  So for a graphic design assignment taken in undergrad, I designed a new logo for the restaurant. They've kept the large lit sign above the restaurant unchanged but this design is now by the front entrance, on the 32oz cups and tortilla packaging, as well as shirts and an embroidered apron. 

Subsistence Americana

I worked with jeweler JC Ortiz, better known as sanctuary_city_rings, to create a series of junk food wearables. Typography by me.