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12 120 Volo IL 815-344-6062 Or Voloantiques.com By Mary Daniels Tribune staff reporter Bill Miller creates the kind of artwork that will floor you. When the artist first called Duff Lindsay, owner of Lindsay Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, to tell him about his lush, gorgeous Van Gogh-like landscapes and quirky portraits in vintage linoleum bas relief, Lindsay said to himself, you got my attention. Now is the work any What Miller does as art a truly original idea and original ideas are so says Lindsay. So it be good, too, he thought. it And is.

Today assemblages, which resemble a cross between mosaics and collages, are gaining attention around the country. like to refer to him as a genre- buster as an artist, as he is so hard to categorize. But if I had to, say he belongs to the Recycled Art says Lindsay. His gallery is representing Miller in the Outsiders Outside Art Fair, held in the tented acre back yard of Judith Racht Gallery inHarbert, next weekend for details, see accompanying story This is a rare Midwestern appearance for the Silver Springs, Searching for Garbage: A graphic artist by trade, was always says Miller, 43. He was one of the founders of the Pittsburgh Industrial Arts Co-op, an activity collective whose members broke into abandoned steel mills to harvest found objects from which they would create sculpture.

On one of these forays, Miller came across some vintage vinyl. was beautiful and it was blue. I saw the sky; I saw water. It is so beautiful and it is garbage. I have to save he recalls thinking.

first I used the linoleum to mat my he says. It took about a year from the time he started collecting the vintage vinyl for Miller to begin using it as his main media. Similar and Different: started doing this stuff 10 years says Miller. At the very outset, his assemblages were similar to his pre-vinyl paintings, the same type of he says. was definitely similar subject Beyond His Doing: His portraits are not like portraiture, but more like folk art, he says.

He also does commissioned portraits of animals. think the No. 1thing for me about making it and showing it is the idea that all this is a lost art he adds. about that attracted me to the material. I started collecting it just to save it.

In ages gone by, people lived their lives on this material. It has a quality beyond my doing, that has more to do with connecting with and exploring memories of the he says. What he does with it a new way of looking at it, which is something that really triggered it for Only Original Drips: People think that assemblages are made of some type of material and that he thenpaints on top of the material. never paint on the he says. If there are spots of paint on it, rest assured they are there because someone dripped paint on the floor while painting the ceiling, he says.

First Frenzy: The biggest challenge to what he does is the finite amount of material available, he says. When he started out, would work tire- lessly to get it before it was peek through the windows of abandoned houses, crowbar in hand, and if he spied linoleum on the floor, he would get (If been glued down, it come up.) was very desperate for He would also go Dumpster diving. Once he paid $50 for permission to harvest the linoleum for two hours in a derelict building without electricity, and slated for the wrecking ball. His flashlight went out as he descended a dark stairwell of a building with his arms full of linoleum. He made it out.

Donate Your Old Floor: I have a really nice he says. People in the construction business call him to come and get it, while some people donate their old linoleum to him, more people find out about me. There definitely is a finite amount available, so it is important for me to keep making it as long as I he adds. Mind-opening: can be says Miller, whose repertoire has included his own compassionate portrayal of the Crucified Christ, and his depiction of the World Trade Center twin towersas double waterfalls of blood. have to open your mind up as to what art says Miller.

fact I make them out of this material is my own unique He uses industrial-strength shears to cut the linoleum up, storing even the smallest pieces in bins. Then he cuts up wood backing on which he starts arranging the scraps, piecing them out. He secures the resulting composition with construction adhesive. Finally, he seals it with polyurethane varnish and adds a frame. More Alternative Than Ever: that doing the linoleum art as my main thing, I have done a lot more pieces per says Miller, who has an associate degree in graphic arts from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.

Before he became a full- time artist, he was the art director at several alternative newspapers, including the Village Voice in New York. Getting Engaged: Vincent Van Gogh was one of his more important influences, Miller says. There also wassurrealist Salvador Dali and Gustav Klimt, whose paintings are patterns on patterns; so I studied him. The main trick of what I do is combining patterns that look says Miller, who regards this as his second greatest challenge. Prices: $300 to $5,000.

For more information: Call 917-741-9410or visit billmillerart.com.Or see him at the Outsiders Outside Art Fair. What: 11th Annual Outsiders OutsideArt Fair at Judith Racht Gallery, one of the main sources for collectors of this genre of art. More than 40artists and dealers including Dewey Blocksma of Beulah, Connie Covent and Bob Ketelhut of West Bloomfield, Lindsay Gallery of Columbus, Ohio; Pardee Gallery of Iowa City will exhibit. When: Noon to 6 p.m. EST Saturday, 10 a.m.

to 5 p.m. EST Sept. 4. Where: Judith Racht Gallery, 13707 Prairie Harbert, 75 minutes from downtown Chicago. Highlights: Preview party: 6 to 9 p.m.

EST Friday $50 per person, includes dinner, a first look at this show and a weekend pass. Meet the artist: Bill Miller will be available from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday in the Lindsay Gallery booth. Admission: $7 for one day, $10 for a two-day pass. For more information: Call 269-469-1080or visit judithrachtgallery.net.

Mary Daniels At the fair WHO AT THE ART FAIRS Maryland artist teaches old flooring some new tricks Bill assemblages like his (shown here) resemble a cross between mosaics and collages and are gaining attention around the country. Bill Miller linoleum artist Photo by Russell Howard can be says Bill Miller..