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Color image of a mixed media artwork with an oil painting depicting a house in an empty filed attached to a wooden box with two speakers and a red button on a white gallery wall

Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: Small Works

Through mixed media collages and constructivist sculptures sometimes employing sound and motion, the artists explore the storytelling potential of various objects.

White House in Winter, 2020-23 (exhibition video)

Color image of a mixed media artwork consisting of four speakers and exposed wiring on an aged piece of wood with found objects attached to the face of the work — Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Did you hear me, 2000

mixed media, electronics, sound, 11 x 9-1/2 x 6 inches (overall) [27.9 x 24.1 x 15.2 cm]

Did you hear me, 2000 (exhibition video)

Color image of a mixed media artwork with paper and photo collage on wooden pieces within a wooden box on a white wall — Janet Cardiff, Guitar, 2023

mixed media collage in wooden box, 12 x 10-1/2 x 2-1/2 inches (overall) [30.5 x 26.7 x 6.4 cm]

Color image of a mixed media artwork with a framed black and white photograph along with a small plastic superman figure on a wooden pedestal with a small gramophone — Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Superman, 2023

mixed media with sound & electronics, 20-1/2 x 12 x 6 inches (overall) [52.1 x 30.5 x 15.2 cm]

Superman, 2023 (exhibition video)

Color image of a mixed media sculpture made up of scrap wood pieces along with a black and white image of a female figure resting with text above reading 'it was not my fault' and wooden block pieces spelling out 'fuck you' on a white wall — Janet Cardiff, It’s not my fault, 2023

mixed media, 14 x 3 x 2 inches (overall) [35.6 x 7.6 x 5.1 cm]

Color image of an oil painting on wooden panel depicting an empty filed at night perched on a shelf with text reading "The sound of footsteps now became audible" — Janet Cardiff, House in Field, 2022

oil paint on Birch panel, shelf, and found text, 9 x 9 x 5-1/2 inches (overall) [22.9 x 22.9 x 14 cm]

Color image of a mixed media artwork compromised of three gramophones and wooden pieces with collaged photographs and hair on a wooden pedestal — Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Doppler Dance, 2023

mixed media, electronics, audio, motor, battery, wooden pedestal, 52 x 12 x 12 inches (overall) [132.1 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm]

Doppler Dance, 2023 (exhibition video)

Color photograph with abstract paint splotches framed in white depicting a still life of utilitarian objects — Janet Cardiff, The long kiss goodbye, 2021

acrylic paint on archival inkjet print, 14-3/4 x 11-1/4 inches (framed) [37.5 x 28.6 cm]

Janet Cardiff & George Bures MillerWhite House in Winter

2020-23

oil paint on Birch panel, audio, electronics, 12-1/2 x 11 x 2 inches (overall) [31.8 x 27.9 x 5.1 cm]

Janet Cardiff & George Bures MillerDid you hear me

2000

mixed media, electronics, sound, 11 x 9-1/2 x 6 inches (overall) [27.9 x 24.1 x 15.2 cm]

Janet CardiffGuitar

2023

mixed media collage in wooden box, 12 x 10-1/2 x 2-1/2 inches (overall) [30.5 x 26.7 x 6.4 cm]

Janet Cardiff & George Bures MillerSuperman

2023

mixed media with sound & electronics, 20-1/2 x 12 x 6 inches (overall) [52.1 x 30.5 x 15.2 cm]

Janet CardiffIt’s not my fault

2023

mixed media, 14 x 3 x 2 inches (overall) [35.6 x 7.6 x 5.1 cm]

Janet Cardiff & George Bures MillerDoppler Dance

2023

mixed media, electronics, audio, motor, battery, wooden pedestal, 52 x 12 x 12 inches (overall) [132.1 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm]

Janet CardiffThe long kiss goodbye

2021

acrylic paint on archival inkjet print, 14-3/4 x 11-1/4 inches (framed) [37.5 x 28.6 cm]

Photograph of an installation of a chair in front of a keyboard, surrounded by multiple stacked speakers

Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: Installations

The artists’ immersive multimedia sound installations utilize narrative musical composition to augment and challenge our perception.

Color photograph of a piano and chairs facing the piano in the middle of an old church — Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Instrument of Troubled Dreams, 2018

interactive audio installation with ambisonic sound

Color photograph of a group of people seated in a forest — Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, FOREST (for a thousand years…), 2012

audio installation, 28 minute loop, edition of 3

Color image of nine rotary phones on an aged green armoire in a white walled gallery — Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Conversations with my Mother, 2023

wooden shelf, telephones, electronics, audio, 81-1/2 x 39 x 21-1/2 inches (overall) [207 x 99.1 x 54.6 cm], edition of 3

Color image of nine rotary phones on an aged green armoire — Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Conversations with my Mother (detail)

Photograph of an installation of a slide projector, flanked by chairs, projecting a color landscape onto a screen — Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Road Trip, 2004

computer controlled slide projector with audio, dimensions variable

Janet Cardiff & George Bures MillerThe Poetry Machine

2017

interactive installation, words and voice by Leonard Cohen, dimensions variable

Janet Cardiff & George Bures MillerInstrument of Troubled Dreams

2018

interactive audio installation with ambisonic sound

Janet Cardiff & George Bures MillerFOREST (for a thousand years…)

2012

audio installation, 28 minute loop, edition of 3

Janet Cardiff & George Bures MillerConversations with my Mother

2023

wooden shelf, telephones, electronics, audio, 81-1/2 x 39 x 21-1/2 inches (overall) [207 x 99.1 x 54.6 cm], edition of 3

Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller

Janet Cardiff & George Bures MillerRoad Trip

2004

computer controlled slide projector with audio, dimensions variable