DAYDREAMS is a new body of work by photographer Baxter Miller on view at Charlotte Russell Contemporary June 3 through June 30.
"My mind is a funny place — it races and it plows, it treads and it swallows, it's sharp and it's foggy. It is a place where attention, presence, resonance, and focus are all in turmoil, besieged by creativity, spontaneity, whimsy and dopamine.
Diagnosed with and medicated for ADD over 25 years, I've spent the better part of my life fighting, pushing against, working through, coping with, and distilling how the condition does and does not define me, and here's what I know: it shapes how I see.
This work is about where I go in my mind when it's all been a bit too much. It's about the distractions, the tangents, the searching, the staring, the looking, the never-finding-it but-the-die-trying. This is about my mind's eye and the places it goes when it needs to escape." - Baxter Miller
Charlotte Russell Contemporary is pleased to announce DAYDREAMS, a solo exhibition of photographs by Baxter Miller. Baxter Miller is an artist and creative director based in her hometown of New Bern, North Carolina, where she returned in 2021. Her photographic work is deeply rooted in place and is known for its quiet but graphic compositions that leans heavily on her unabashed relationship to color. DAYDREAMS, a new body of photographs by Baxter Miller, will be on view at Charlotte Russell Contemporary, June 3 - June 30, 2022, with an opening reception on June 3, 2022 from 5:30 - 7:30 PM.
DAYDREAMS is a deep dive into the liminal space between the artist’s memory and her dreams as she reflects on her own emotional journey through vignettes of coastal North Carolina. The work depicts the challenges and superpowers of a life defined by ADHD, far-reaching creative ambitions and a reverence for home.
Baxter Miller is an artist, photographer, and creative director based in New Bern, NC. In 2018 and 2019, her series RISING, a multidisciplinary collaborative exhibition on perspectives of Change along the North Carolina Coast, traveled to Center for the Study of the American South, Chapel Hill, NC, Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center, Harkers Island, NC, Coastal Studies Institute, Wanchese, NC and the Witherspoon Center, Raleigh, NC. In addition, her photographs have appeared in publications such as This Will Make it Taste Good by Vivian Howard, and Edible North Carolina: A Journey Across a State of Flavor edited by Marcie Cohen Ferris and foreward by Vivian Howard.
