(after Miller)
The series ‘After Miller’ sees Aldridge’s response to the work of painter Harland Miller, appropriating his well-known penguin book cover paintings within his own pin-up scenes, thus creating a tandem of personalities which comment on the social psyche of growing up in the 1960s and 1970s. As art critic Michael Bracewell comments on Aldridge: ‘In his work, the tension of film noir conflates with Pop and post-Pop vibrancy; what could be tableaux of science fictional erotica mingle with a hyper-stylized account of domestic British vernacular; the visual language of a mid-twentieth century centrefold pin-up articulates icily depersonalized desire.’
