Slow the Wheel is a two-person exhibition featuring recent paintings by Christopher Miller and Lily Timberlake. A reference to Canadian singer-songwriter Andre Ethier’s song of the same title, Slow the Wheel is an attempt to dwell in a moment for long enough to lose one’s awareness of the habitual and sometimes monotonous forward-motion of everyday life. The paintings reflect these idle interactions, often implying a particular time of day or quality of light that locates the image in a specific setting. Ranging from the commonplace to the sublime, the work explores the desire to pause, reflect and revisit these fleeting moments again.
Christopher Miller is an Austin based painter. He makes large, colorful landscape paintings entrenched in personal experience. Through a process of layering akin to printmaking, he constructs these environments through working over a ground of strong, saturated color in both direct and indirect applications of paint. After attending the Kansas City Art Institute and earning his BFA in Painting in 2018, Christopher relocated his practice to Austin, Texas. His work has been shown at the Leedy-Volkous Art Center, Cloudtree Gallery,GoodLuckHaveFun Gallery, and has been featured in I Like Your Work’s 2025 Winter Catalogue.
Lily Timberlake is a painter based in Austin, Texas, currently working on a series of oil paintings that lean into the joyful, tender, and transient moments that sustain a life. Drawing from her immediate environment, her work seeks to capture the fleeting nature of experience, and encourages the viewer to slow down. Her paintings are often built up in washes of both thick and thin paint, leaving certain areas open and gestural, while rendering others more defined and dense. After receiving a BFA in painting from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2018, she relocated her practice to Austin, where she lives with her partner, painter Christopher Miller, and their cattle dog Rio. Her work has been shown at Cloudtree Gallery, the Dodge Painting Gallery, and has been featured in I Like Your Work’s Winter 2024 Exhibition Catalogue.
