John Millei

John Millei is an artist born in 1958 in Los Angeles. He currently lives and works in Pasadena, California. He works as an associate professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Pasadena, at the Claremont Graduate University and at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

His style oscilates between abstraction and expressionism. He uses mainly secondary and tertiary colors in a succession of gestural traits composing a thick layer of paint.

Alternating between organic and geometric shapes and drawings, Millei's work gathers the feelings of the observers. His pieces confronts the viewer with himself instead of a confrontation with his pieces. Contemplation leads to confusion. He creates confusion with paintings that are almost a prose.

His paintings has been the used in book besides the works of great artists and exhibited by prestigious galleries: "Procession, Robert Creely, Kevin O Sullivan, Mitchell Kane, John Millei", "For Surfing, Jamie Brisick, Dennis Philipps", "Terra incognita"..... He is regularly acclaimed by the press and by documentary directors.