In the life and studio of LA-based, Trinidad-born artist Miles Regis,

every action is an opportunity for creative self-expression. Prolific

in both fine art art and fashion design, Regis freely swaps the

materials and languages of each to enrich the other. His large-scale

mixed media paintings on canvas and linen incorporate dimensional

collage elements of denim, buttons, leather, printed matter, sequins,

and patches of eclectically sourced found textiles along with his

dextrous, gestural, richly hued abstract and figurative painting

techniques. Aggressively hopeful and humanistic, Regis embraces a

storytelling stance in his stylized renditions of fundamental scenes

of love, loss, freedom, survival, activism, and living history.

Tapping into the emotional experiences of exotic cultures around the

world and presenting them in ways that are relevant to today’s

modernized societies, Regis favors the simplicity of black and white

structure, starkly juxtaposed with the complex dimensions of color;

recurring motifs include his use of eyes, encouraging the viewer to

look deeper. His paintings are often layered with vibrant hues,

powerful imagery, text, abstract brush strokes, and purposeful objects

-- the same eye-catching iconography and palette which also appear in

his original wearable art. Hand-painted by the artist, each

garment highlights a delicately detailed working of both surface and

narrative, in the same process that expresses the personal and

collective mythologies enshrined in his art works.

During the summer of 2017 Regis made his first foray into the word of

artisanal perfume, creating an original series of signature scents developed

during a month-long art-and-fashion residency at LA’s Institute for

Art and Olfaction. Regis has also been delving into new technologies

as an early adopter of the emerging realm of Virtual Reality as a

fine art application.

One of the main elements in constructing interdimensional visual

worlds based on his art is a painstaking process building the

compositional structure layer by layer -- a technique ideally suited

to Regis’ established language of painting. The results, which he

sometimes pairs with his own original auric electronic beats, are

kinetic, vibrating, seductive travels in AbEx hyperspace, and all on

their own make the case for VR as a proper tool for all kinds of

artists.

Regis is in the permanent collection of Intel Corporation,

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture,

California African American Museum, and Senegal's La Musee Borindar;

and has appeared in association with CNN, Art Basel Miami, The

Coachella Music and Art Festival, CCH Pounder, Million Dollar Listing,

The Marley Family, Josh Flagg, American Rag Cie, Art For Amnesty,

Campaign for Black Male Achievement, Manifest Justice, Adobe, and

Tonny Sorenson. Regis has exhibited at Art Basel Miami and The

Coachella Arts And Music Festival and has been featured on CNN, The

Huffington Post, Extra TV and Ebony Magazine.