Diagnosed with autism, and with few conventional verbal communications skills, Miller has developed an intensive body of work that employs language as its fundamental subject and departure-point.  His extraordinary drawings take the form of accumulations of descriptive texts, alphabets, and numerical sequences.  (The texts often have strong biographical references, e.g. acknowledging specific Bay Area locales, and aspects of his immediate day-to-day life and family history.)  Typically superimposed on top of one another, these individual words, numbers and phrases start to merge, creating all-over fields of partially obscured and often illegible texts. Juxtaposing formal methodologies (e.g. the use of indexical language and alphabetical and numerical systems, and repeated motifs such as light bulbs and books) with dynamic, yet highly disciplined drawing and mark-making, Miller’s drawings intuitively combine both conceptual and expressive approaches, to create a truly idiosyncratic hybrid form.

Dan Miller's work was shown in "Glossolalia: Languages of Drawing" (March 26 - July 7, 2008) at the Museum of Modern Art. His work is also in the permanent collection at MOMA.

See the articles on Dan Miller:
Artnet article by N.F. Karlins
Time Out New York, July 1-7, 2010 issue
Fluence magazine by Ricco/Maresca, May/June 2010 issue