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Julia Huang of @interTrend Communication says that when the Pow! Wow! Festival first came to Long Beach, CA, it was hard to get walls from business owners. After seeing the results of the first two years however, things have changed and in 2017 22 artists participated, with 8 of them local. When landmark E 4th St dive-bar, V Room, agreed to provide a wall they requested it be painted by someone from Long Beach, and Art Center-trained illustrators Gary Musgrave and Jeff McMillan were happy to get the assignment. Each leading their own busy lives, when the two get together to paint it usually ends up being late at night so in 2015 they adopted the name The Draculas for their partnership. Believing in the value of including the ominous and a hint of danger, the two often include elements of the haunted or creepy in their visual stories, but leave it up to the viewer to create their own accompanying narrative.   @thedraculas  @powwowlongbeach  @VRoomCocktails

Jeff McMillan has been awarded the Abbey Fellowship in Painting and is resident studio artist at the British School at Rome until the end of December 2020. Congratulations, Jeff! @jeffmcmillanstudio Images: Untitled (Hercules - Blue) 2019-20. Oil on linen. 41 x 31 cm Studio, Rome. #jeffmcmillan #americanartist #americanart #abstractart #kristofdeclercqgallery #rome #abbeyfellowshipinpainting #painting #congratulations (bij Rome, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGDVa5Cl0G6/?igshid=1fbhk9bxhejmo

Jeff McMillan's idiosyncratic approach of dipping stretched antique linen canvases face down into thinned pools of oil paint create paintings with beautiful veils of colour that become virtual monochromes when complete. The four edges of the painting are also dipped to create a visual framing device. McMillan later attaches the works to the outside of his studio on a south-facing wall where they are exposed to sun, rain and wind usually for 1 to 2 years, until the artist intuits that they are ‘ripe’ or ready. The works are then brought back inside to be finished in an assortment of different manifestations. He speaks of each painting finding its own form, either splayed, or folded or dipped vertically into more oil paint. At times the final result becomes sculptural or architectural by employing symmetry and simplicity to make low-relief works casually pinned to the wall. Alternatively, some are framed between sheets of glass, others are flag-like, sewn together and pinned flat to the wall. Their size and shape varies greatly but ranges in scale from 40 x 30 cm to 200 x 160 cm. These works are highly durational and distinct, their bold but desaturated colours bear the traces of their interaction with nature: water stains, slug trails, bird markings, soil, pollution, all a testament to their long gestation. They are part recording device, part history painting, an emblematic elegy to modernist painting. Image: Jeff McMillan, Untitled (H-109), 2019, Oil on linen, 40 x 29 x 3 cm | Kristof De Clercq gallery | JMM82 #jeffmcmillan #herculespaintings #modernistpainting #monochromes #americanartist @jeffmcmillanstudio (bij Kristof De Clercq gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCk0wYDlO1L/?igshid=1vniain7y1cns

In the 'Hercules Paintings' American artist Jeff McMillan follows an idiosyncratic approach of dipping stretched antique linen canvases face down into thinned pools of oil paint create paintings with beautiful veils of colour that become virtual monochromes when complete. The four edges of the painting are also dipped to create a visual framing device. McMillan later attaches the works to the outside of his studio on a south-facing wall where they are exposed to sun, rain and wind usually for 1 to 2 years, until the artist intuits that they are ‘ripe’ or ready. The works are then brought back inside to be finished in an assortment of different manifestations. He speaks of each painting finding its own form, either splayed, or folded or dipped vertically into more oil paint. Jeff McMillan, Untitled (Hercs 106), 2019, Oil on linen, 49 x 44 x 4 cm | Kristof De Clercq gallery | JMM79 #americanartist #jeffmcmillan #HerculesPaintings #dipping #stretching #veilsofcolour #monochromes #americanart #abstractart #kristofdeclercqgallery (bij Kristof De Clercq gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAe78diFqFj/?igshid=32abecxfz5hu

Preparing the solo exhibition of American artist Jeff McMillan at the galllery. Image: Jeff McMillan, Untitled (H-107), 2019, Oil on linen, 41 x 30 x 6 cm | Kristof De Clercq gallery | JMM83 #jeffmcmillan #oilonlinen #solo #exhibition #kristofdeclercqgallery #americanart #americanartist #artcollector #artcollectorsoftheworld (bij Kristof De Clercq gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAKvK1aFgWz/?igshid=1sxw5lsnr93po

#rvca spring 18 arrivals have a healthy dose of #rvcaanp artist prints on custom garments. You can't find that anywhere else! The stretch selvedge denim is 🍒 too. #peopleskate #rvcaskate #markoblow #jeffmcmillan #balanceofopposites (at People Skate & Snowboard)