FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE
big paintings by MILES TOLAND
august-september 2021 • Artist reception saturday, august 14, 5-9pm
“This series of paintings is one of my smallest in quantity and largest in square feet. Each piece began as a live art demonstration for a different arts festival that took place as close as Belden Town, CA and as far as the Swiss Alps. The subject matter of each painting speaks to the context from where it was created, capturing an essence of the people, time, and place. Going even further, they are literally infused with the dust, water, and air of each location. Although they all have different origins, the paintings have since been refined in my art studio in Nevada City, CA to bring them into a cohesive whole. These pieces coexist at the intersection of geometric shapes and naturalistic figures like a conversation between two different dimensions. The flat patterns bring symbolic substance to the energetic patterns of human emotions and behaviors and offer a window into our unseen realms. Join me in celebrating this liminal space.” ~MT
All works available for purchase.
Please contact the gallery at info@groundswellart.com or click on any image to send us an email.
Coalesce • acrylic on canvas • 72.5" x 142.5" • $15,000 • originated in Big Summit Prairie, OR
“I started this piece in Big Summit Prairie, OR for an event celebrating the total solar eclipse in 2017. The subject matter is inspired by that profound experience witnessing the eclipse and seeing duality merging into unity.” ~MT
Witness • acrylic on canvas • 77.5" x 123" • $13,000 • originated in the Swiss Alps
Continuum • acrylic on canvas • 83" x 83" • $11,000 • originated in Belden Town, CA (sold) Prints available in our shop link; select the image to purchase.
Nested • acrylic on oak • 62" x 50" • $9000 • originated in Tidewater, OR
"From Somewhere Else, Big Painting by Miles Toland" at Groundswell through September 30, 2021
The Groundswell team with Miles Toland: June Steckler, Miles, John Johnson, Micah Crandall-Bear
Threshold print • Limited Edition Print • 26” x 20” • $270 • available framed at Groundswell (only one available!) sold
The Space In Between print • Limited Edition Print • 18” x 18” • $180 • available framed at Groundswell (only one available!) sold
Vessel print • Limited Edition Print • 18” x 30” $300 • available framed at Groundswell (only one available!) sold
Gallery opens at 11 am
Miles Toland grew his roots in the artistic city of Santa Fe and is currently making art in the woods of Nevada City. His creative juices have been squeezed from the fruits of graffiti culture, a BFA at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, live painting at festivals, and traveling around the world creating street art in places including Paris, Switzerland, Art Basel Miami, Mexico, and Canada. His mural series at the Beatles Ashram in Rishikesh has been published in the Smithsonian Magazine and The New York Times blog. Another one of his murals in India was readapted to be featured as the artwork in the second season of the AMC show Better Call Saul. Miles’ work finds an even split between studio art and street art.