These spirited, living-color paintings of classic horror movie icons from an earlier black and white cinematic world are melodramatic works rendered in stark, painterly realism. Miller has captured these iconic creatures from the realm of horror films and transformed them, creating intimate, almost endearing portraits.

These are photographs of human habitations. The locales are ordinary rather than exotic. Most are urban, many are in color. But like the luminous monotones of the great landscape photographers, which present a natural history of earth’s upheavals and erosions, these images attempt to capture a moment when change pierces the timeless cycles to create unique harmonies, unexpected ironies, and beauty.

Architecture and functional objects inform the vocabulary of Richard Bottwin’s work. The planes of the birch plywood sculptures, folding inward, parallel to each other, or lying flat against the wall, change alignments and seem to move as one walks around them. The surfaces, laminated with wood veneers or painted with acrylic colors, are configured to reveal surprising shapes and patterns with shifts in the viewer’s perspective.  A sense of disorientation, implied weightlessness and the element of surprise is created by the reductive forms and subvert the modernist vocabulary of the simple constructions.