Brooklyn Artist Featured in New Book on the Power of Art

Los Angeles filmmaker Chase Maenius describes New York painter Adam Miller's work as "Timeless - Brooklyn, New York artist Adam Miller is the embodiment of the spirit of masters of years past. His work demonstrates a deep understanding of the human psyche-using the canvas as a storytelling medium that tackles themes and issues as relevant today as they were four hundred years ago."

Adam states, "On a conceptual level I'm dealing with a lot of things that are contemporary issues - the environment, the place of science and psychology and what's motivating us as human beings. When you look at the news you see this ongoing struggle for power, dominance, wealth and authority - that's always been interesting to me. I like to look into the motives of why we are doing what we do as human beings and then try to find a language that can address those motives. I think that's why I was drawn to sixteenth century paintings, because they were doing the same thing. They were talking about issues that were going on in their time - the authority of the church, the aristocracy, and they were doing it in a really funny, witty way - that's really important to me.

"I also like a little bit of humor in my work, so I would say it is darkly sardonic with an undertone of sweetness to it. It goes along the tradition of social criticism that starts back in the sixteenth century and goes through the eighteenth century - the Enlightenment with people like Voltaire and Swift."

The Power of an Image is now available in bookstores around the United States.

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