Date of event: June 11, 2011, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Miles is a furniture maker and found materials artist, building with common materials such as cardboard, cork, and copper.

Using the ready debris of our everyday lives, found in such places as Craig’s List, recycling yards, dumpsters, and the street, Miles designs and builds carefully crafted furniture. His pieces strive to achieve both longevity and graceful function as well as provoke questions about perception of value, the nature of waste, and the joy of materiality.

“My aim is to carefully manipulate human-used objects using the simplest of tooling, a bit of patience, and the joy of good craft.”

A true disciple of found object art, the graphic piece America, above left, is a paper collage of s&h greenstamps, blue chip stamps, chevrolet ads from the 1960′s, cheaply printed american flags from a bottled water company, and map parts.

Miles has a studio space at Workspace Ltd where he builds spec work and does commissions. Workspace is “a nonprofit dedicated to the provision of affordable studio space for Bay Area artists”. At its heart is the Workspace Gallery, a gallery/event space available for rent. Workspace is also part of the Mission Artists United (MAU) studio collective, and Miles contributed this collage at right in the April MAU exhibit at FLAX.

To learn more about Workspace and Miles’ art work, visit milesepstein.com .