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  • A gallery visitor observes a wall of letterpress poster by Brad Vetter in the "Makeready" exhibition.

Makeready

2024

Artists: Brad Vetter & Adrienne Miller
Exhibition Title: Makeready
Exhibition Dates: February 26 - March 1, 2024
Opening Reception and Gallery Talk: February 29, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

SVAD is proud to present a pop-up duo exhibition featuring collage and printed works by Brad Vetter and Adrienne Miller.Brad Vetter is showcasing over 100 commissioned letterpress posters created over the past decade, highlighting his collaborations with acclaimed artists such as Chris Stapleton, Death Cab for Cutie, and Noah Kahan. Adrienne Miller is presenting a curated selection of her current collages and mixed-media drawings, offering an exploration of surreal and psychologically-charged landscapes.

Artist's Biographies

Brad Vetter is a designer, educator, and one of the preeminent letterpress artists in the country. Brad began printing letterpress at the legendary Hatch Show Print in Nashville. His select client list includes Nike, Fossil, Anthropologie, Ryman Auditorium, Penguin Books, Texas Tourism, Domtar Paper, AARP Magazine, Head Snowboards, Lost Highway Records, Garden & Gun Magazine, Boonville Cider House, Rebel Wine Co, Fatz Cafe, Signal Ridge Vineyard, Brink International (Chili’s), Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, and Chevy. 

Primarily focusing on works on paper, Adrienne Miller’s recent studio practice explores the use of symbolic landscapes and abstract interior spaces to reflect on the meaning of physical and mental boundaries and her personal research in psychology, the American relationship to natural spaces, suburban expansion and the history of property ownership.Miller is both a full-time studio artist and the Exhibition Coordinator at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. Born in Memphis, TN, she gained her MFA in Printmaking from Northern Illinois University in 2015 (BFA from Murray State University in 2007). She has managed the presentation of all exhibitions at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky since 2017.


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