Current Exhibition

Urban Patina; The Colors of Time

Ralph Miller

September 2nd - September 20th

Tuesday, September 2nd – Saturday, September 20th, 2025

Opening Reception:  Thursday, September 4th 6 – 8pm

Closing Reception:  Saturday, September 20th 4 – 6pm

Chelsea, New York:  Viridian Artists gallery is proud  to present “Urban Patina: The Colors of Time” an exhibition of new works by artist Ralph Miller.  The show opens Tuesday, September 2nd and runs through Saturday, September 20th with an opening reception Thursday, September 4th from 6 to 8pm.  A closing reception will be held at the gallery Saturday, September 20th between the hours of 4 and 6pm.

In Urban Patina:  The Colors of Time, artist Ralph Miller invites the viewer into a world often overlooked in daily life.  Where erosion becomes elevation, and what has been passed over by passers by becomes a point of focus, and even enlightenment.  This collection unearths urban decay, illustrating a rich and layered eye that sees stories found in the worn corners of cities.  Through the mixed media of camera lens and paint brush, Miller turns forgotten alleys and crumbling walls into moments of reverence reflecting the artist’s decades-long pursuit of meaning and the unfolding of this meaning in the day-to-day.

Raised in the Caribbean with an education in philosophy, psychology, and fine arts, Miller’s interests in the details of diverse urban lifestyles have taken him to many signature places all over the world.  Each wall, each fragment of crumbling concrete that has gone before Miller’s eyes holds stories not just of use and function but of endurance, neglect, ascendancy, and unexpected beauty.  Where time is not linear but layered.  Where what has come of the past now surfaces from what is worn and broken to become, as an image, an emblem for what through the art is made whole.  

Having been influenced by artists such as Peña-Defilló (“Papo”), Guillo-Pérez, and Armando Cruz, color formed an early foundation for Miller fostering a lifelong embrace of bright blues, sun soaked yellows, vivid greens, and bursting reds. From the vibrant remnants on a graffiti wall in San Sebastian, Spain, to the pitted alleyways of Havana and Mexico City, this series offers a visual meditation on impermanence where Miller finds clarity in chaos, aesthetics in the accidental through the exceptional skill of capturing layers of life and time in the textures left flippantly behind.  From sunlight breaking through a ruined roofline, the shadow cast across a peeling poster, or the overspray of red on discarded masking paper, each detail becomes a verse in an ongoing visual poem of perception, change, and resilience. 

Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12-6PM

For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director at 212 414 4040 or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com

or view the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com or instagram @viridian artists