May 9 - 14, 2023. Kieran O’Hare | The Lava Log.

Jonathan Miller Spies Fine Art presents the much-anticipated first solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based multi-media artist Kieran O’Hare at at 72 Warren Street, New York, NY 10007. O’Hare explores the decaying collective unconsciousness of popular culture. He has worked in conventional animation—for MTV, Adult Swim—but his static and recursive works engage at narrative without resolution. O’Hare’s latest body of work, The Lava Log embraces both traditional oil paintings and looping animation in an immersive experience.

The show runs for a limited engagement at 72 Warren Street, New York, Tuesday, May 9, through Sunday, May 14, 11 AM - 7 PM. Please join us for an opening reception from 4 - 8 PM on Tuesday, May 9. New collectors are invited to join the artist for a special evening on Thursday, May 11, 4 - 8 PM. 

Sept. 22 - 25, 2022. Affordable Art Fair, Fall, New York.

Jonathan Miller Spies Fine Art, LLC will present its second booth at Affordable Art Fair, September 22 - 25 at the Metropolitan Pavilion. Paintings, prints, and drawings by Carrie Beckmann, Neelon Crawford, Kieran O’Hare, Marissa Paternoster, and Paul Shore, and more, will be on view.

Sept. 8 - 11, 2022. Art On Paper Fair.

Jonathan Miller Spies Fine Art, LLC will present a booth at the prestigious Art On Paper fair for the first time this September. From September 8 - 11 on Pier 36, South Street, New York, we’ll present a group of paintings, prints, and drawings by Carrie Beckmann, Neelon Crawford, George Gibson, Kieran O’Hare, Marissa Paternoster, and Leonard Rosenfeld, Paul Shore, and more.

Extended through October 10, 2022. Neelon Crawford at MoMA.

MoMA’s retrospective of the films of Neelon Crawford has been extended through October 10 of this year. Ron Magliozzi, Curator, and Brittany Shaw, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Film present a stunning showcase for this body of experimental film from the 1970s and 80s.

March 23, 2022. George Gibson at Boca Raton Museum of Art.

George Gibson’s pathbreaking contributions to the art of scenic design are on display at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in “Art of the Hollywood Backdrop,” curated by Karen Maness. The exhibition brings together the scenic backdrops painted for MGM movies under Gibson’s guidance. Many objects not scene since they were shelved are on view, giving a unique insight into the great invisible art of backing design. Through January 22, 2023.

March 23, 2022. Affordable Art Fair, Spring, 2022, New York.

Jonathan Miller Spies Fine Art, LLC exhibits five contemporary artists at New York’s Spring Affordable Art Fair, March 23 - 27, 2022 at the Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, New York, NY 10011, booth A14 on Level 2.

Jonathan Miller Spies Fine Art, LLC presents the work of Carrie Beckmann, Neelon Crawford, Kieran O’Hare, Marissa Paternoster, and Paul Shore. These contemporary artists work in media ranging from traditional watercolor to photogravure and digital animation, but all engage the viewer in a voyage of visual discovery and reward the challenge of close inspection. 

Carrie Beckmann will be represented by large, mosaic-like watercolors, explosive contemporary interpretations of traditional floral motifs. Neelon Crawford, currently the subject of a film retrospective at MoMA, will present photogravures of the vanishing Antarctic landscape. Kieran O’Hare and Marissa Paternoster draw from an illustrator’s lexicon of pop culture to assemble twisted visions – in large scale and glossy finish in O’Hare’s oils and drawings, more darkly contemplative in Paternoster’s intimately-scaled ink drawings. Paul Shore’s drawings of water towers are a small portion of his epic ManhattoLand project – a love-letter to the city’s edges from within.

March 15, 2022. Hyperallergic calls us a “standout newcomer.”

Hyperallergic called Jonathan Miller Spies Fine Art a “standout newcomer” at this Spring’s Affordable Art Fair in “Affordable Art Fair NYC Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary”:

“With editions around the world, the Affordable Art Fair has a long history of acting as an entry point for curious art-goers and new collectors seeking access to the contemporary art market. Among the Affordable Art Fair NYC’s exhibitors are Linda Blackstone Gallery and Art Movement, two of four legacy galleries that have participated in the fair since its debut 20 years ago. Standout newcomers to this year’s edition include the New York-based Jonathan Spies Miller Fine Art, LLC, and Paris-based Galerie Duret.”

January, 2022. Joining the Board of the Art Students League of New York.

Jonathan Spies joins the Board of Control of the Art Students League of New York, one of the most esteemed arts institutions in the city and among the oldest art schools in the country. Having studied at the League and generously enjoyed the benefits of this storied institution, Jonathan looks forward to giving something back as the League approaches its 150th year of providing world-class education in the visual arts.

October 13, 2021. Marissa Paternoster’s first solo album under her name, Peace Meter, on Don Giovanni Records.

Visual artist and musician Marissa Paternoster is releasing her first solo LP under her name on December 3rd via Don Giovanni Records. You can hear the first single, “White Dove” and pre-order it here.

October 12, 2021. Announcing two Shows by Paul Shore.

Jonathan Miller Spies Fine Art, in association with C. G. Boerner, presents two bodies of work by Paul Shore, from November 2 - 20, 2021. Left-Handed Year — a year’s worth of drawings made with the artist’s non-dominant hand — will hang alongside ManhattoLand, a love-letter to the New York borough, at the Blackburn 20|20 Gallery, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, 323 W39th St., New York 10018.

October 6, 2021. ArtForum praises Neelon Crawford: Filmmaker.

J. Hoberman writes in “Practical Magic,” in the latest issue of ArtForum, on Neelon Crawford’s film retrospective at MoMA, calling his films “deeply unfashionable and exactly on time.” “MoMA’s curators have not only rediscovered Crawford but, of necessity and perhaps for the better, reinvented him as an artist.”

August 13, 2021. Critical Note for Neelon Crawford: Filmmaker at MoMA

Neelon Crawford: Filmmaker, on view now at New York’s Museum of Modern art, presents short experimental films of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Filmmaker Magazine interviewed Crawford about his work, and Art Wolf, Broadway World, and Screen Slate favorably mentioned the exhibition. Antioch College, where Crawford studied in the 1960s, shined a spotlight on Crawford’s time at Antioch.

June 25, 2021. Representing the estate of George Gibson, NA.

Jonathan Miller Spies Fine Art represents the estate of George Gibson. Gibson studied in his native Scotland before coming to live and work in California, working on set design of some of the most visually daring sets in cinema, from The Wizard of Oz to An American in Paris and beyond.

HIs watercolors and oils unrelated to film share this sense of world-building, but on a more intimate scale. He painted both the vernacular life of rural California and exotic scenes of world travel, joining the realist watercolor tradition of Henry Roderick Newman, John Singer Sargent, and Edward Hopper.

June 10-24, 2021. MoMA screens Neelon Crawford.

Neelon Crawford work in many media, and now the Museum of Modern Art is presenting the newly-restored experimental films by the artist from the 1960s to the early 1980s. Museum members can stream from home now, and the bricks-and-mortar museum will present Neelon Crawford, Filmmaker, Jul 24, 2021–Spring 2022.

June 1, 2021. Hanging Papers Newsletter Launches on Substack.

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May 27, 2021. Representing the work of Marissa Paternoster.

Jonathan Miller Spies Fine Art represents the fine artwork of Marissa Paternoster. Paternoster makes art on everything from postcards to the sides of buildings, in many places but centering on her native New Jersey. A source of inspiration has been her mother’s struggle with mental health and creativity. Paternoster’s work is activated by the tension between the gift/curse, considering shared solitude through frenetic and sometimes frightening visions. She went to school for visual art, but owes an equal debt to the underground music subculture that fostered her. The gift/curse of punk's DIY ethic also informs her aesthetic: you must do it yourself, because you are alone. She has nonetheless found collaborators and supporters, not least in the form of her acclaimed band, Screaming Females. Her first graphic novel, with writer Joe Steinhardt, is set for a 2022 publication date, and her third full-length solo effort will arrive early the same year. Fittingly, it is the first she will release under the name Marissa Paternoster. She lives and works in Philadelphia.

May 26, 2021. Representing the work of Kieran Michael O’Hare.

Jonathan Miller Spies Fine Art represents the fine artwork of Kieran Michael O’Hare. O'Hare takes cues from his work in animation. As an animator, he has created TV and web content for platforms including Adult Swim, VICE, MTV, and YouTube Premium. His fine art looks askance at the informational function of infographics, taking a critical view in his maps, non-linear narrative “bricks,” and various hand-drawn simulacra. His commitment to painstakingly handcrafting copies of mechanically-reproductions, from baseball cards to receipts, attempts to elevate the overlooked details of the human experience left by excavations of the digital data. He lives and works in Brooklyn.