Adam D. Miller’s newest body of work centers on his ongoing exploration of community, communication, and playfulness. This series marks a shift toward a more aesthetically universal language, moving beyond personal narrative to tap into something shared and intuitive. Through a practice rooted in spontaneous and empathetic mark-making, Miller invites the viewer into a tactile dialogue—one that celebrates the communal joy of touch and the immediacy of gesture.

After several years working with more painterly ceramics, Miller has embraced a renewed focus on the physicality and material specificity of his forms. This evolution signals a move away from image-centric surfaces and towards a rawer, more elemental engagement with medium. While past influences like the Bay Area Funk artists and H.C. Westermann remain part of his visual vocabulary, the current work draws energy from the emotional intensity and dynamic approach of the German Neo-Expressionists. The symbolic language and rhythmic mark-making reflect a deep connection to artists like A.R. Penck, whose balance of abstraction and iconography resonates throughout the series.

Layered with the artist’s signature California punk sensibility, these works channel the gritty aesthetics of Goth, D-Beat, and Industrial music. Their bold, graphic presence is as much at home in the world of DIY show flyers as it is in the lineage of expressive painting. This new body of work captures a moment of artistic clarity, where emotion, intuition, and community converge in a compelling, tactile language uniquely Miller’s own.