{"id":525,"date":"2006-02-13T03:16:31","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T03:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=525"},"modified":"2008-11-02T03:23:34","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T03:23:34","slug":"christopher-miner-at-mitchell-innes-and-nash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/13\/christopher-miner-at-mitchell-innes-and-nash\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Miner at Mitchell-Innes and Nash"},"content":{"rendered":"

For ‘Time Out New York’ magazine
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Christopher Miner, Still from 'The Best Decision Ever Made', 2004, Courtesy of Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\n‘How Beautiful Heaven Must Be’
\nYou may never have heard it argued that Jesus had it easy. But, in one of two videos in his second solo show, Christopher Miner points out that at least the Son of God had a purpose in life, something the artist worries he doesn\u2019t. Such unorthodox thoughts – and the total disregard for political correctness in his second video – indicate that Miner is unafraid to grapple with the hot-button topics of faith and race in America.<\/p>\n

In \u2018The Best Decision Ever Made,\u2019 Miner trains his camera on the memento-filled rooms in his late grandparents\u2019 house, while comparing their stable lives and happy marriage with his own endless string of jobs, girlfriends and homes. It\u2019s a twist on the classic prodigal-son story: Miner leaves home dissatisfied and returns disillusioned, with no one to welcome him back into the fold. By the closing shot viewers are no wiser about the title\u2019s \u201cbest decision\u201d as the artist listens to a gospel song by another prodigal artist, Johnny Cash.<\/p>\n

In the back gallery, Self-Portrait finds Miner sitting in a dimly lit room, paying the role of a foul-mouthed African-American man. In a rambling phone conversation, which includes a tirade about how wrong it is for \u201ca white man to talk like a black man,\u201d Miner creates a disturbingly complex closed circuit of self-portrait as self-censure.<\/p>\n

Both videos employ monologues, a classic trope of introspection, but neither is gratuitously self-obsessed. Instead, they are at once brutally honest and confoundingly evasive, leaving viewers eager for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For ‘Time Out New York’ magazine ‘How Beautiful Heaven Must Be’ You may never have heard it argued that Jesus had it easy. But, in one of two videos in his second solo show, Christopher Miner points out that at least the Son of God had a purpose in life, something the artist worries he … <\/p>\n

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