Chris Miller
Current Issue, 2026
Mixed media on wood panel (hand-cut wood, decoupage, and watercolor)
61 x 45.7 cm
24 x 18 in
24 x 18 in
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My work combines woodworking, illustration, and the visual language of skateboarding to examine the relationship between subculture and the world beyond it. For Current Issue, I reconstruct a recent Thrashermagazine...
My work combines woodworking, illustration, and the visual language of skateboarding to examine the relationship between subculture and the world beyond it. For Current Issue, I reconstruct a recent Thrashermagazine cover using hand-cut wood, layered decoupage, and transparent watercolor over clippings from The New York Times, allowing the headlines to remain visible beneath the image. Skateboarding often feels like a self-contained universe where video parts, trips, and magazine covers become the events that matter most. Yet every session unfolds within a much larger story. Weather determines when we skate, politics and economics shape where we travel, and world events inevitably find their way into our experiences. This piece layers paint and news clippings, mirroring how skateboarding exists within and is constantly shaped by the world around it.