FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                       

MILES REGIS

SOUL FIRE

November 8th, 2025 through December, 2025

Opening reception:

Saturday, November 8th, 4 - 7 pm

Von Lintel Gallery is pleased to announce Miles Regis: Soul Fire, the artists fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. 

Miles Regis paints with earnest emotion and thoughtful social purpose, fusing figuration, abstraction, and text into rhythmic declarations of diverse identity and collective conscience. His musical energy—gestural brushwork, layered surfaces, material inventiveness, and graffiti-like inscriptions—vibrates with the syncopation of life itself, capturing the spirit of culture through symbolism and storytelling.

With Soul Fire, Regis turns that same expressive force toward a new story, perhaps his most intimately personal, and yet as always, in tune with the zeitgeist of ancestry and care. The figures in a new portrait series are not (or not only) allegorical—they are people from his own life and family. Here, faces and bodies are rendered through gesture, texture, and light as well as likeness with the purpose of portraying the enduring character of their souls. The color-field backgrounds radiate around them like auras, enveloping each subject in an art historical atmosphere that piques emotionally as well as optically. Several do evoke the iconography of classic album covers, a natural motif for an artist whose career is equally steeped in music as well.

Several major new works continue to engage wider social themes of protest, heritage, justice, resilience. Taken together, works such as Matriarch (Fire of Self) and We All Just Want to Be Free trace a movement from the social to the sacred, from an outward call to action to an urgent inward reflection. His materials—acrylic, spray paint, pencil—carry an improvisational energy as an extension of the artist’s hand, in a nod to the more intimate nature of this series, undertaken during a time of great shifts in the dynamic of his family and community in both his birthplace and adopted homeland.

As the exhibition proceeds in two interrelated aspects—portraits of the individuals whose powerful presence in life and in death continue to shape Regis’ understanding of the world, and more monumental works examining how those dynamics play out in society—the main idea behind Soul Fire is a simple one: We all have something burning inside of us, and its our duty to nurture that power and then use it for good.

—Shana Nys Dambrot

Miles Regis has work in public collections such as the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History, the Californian African American Museum, the North Dakota Art Museum, the Intel Corporation and other notable private collections such as The Bunker Art Space, Halle Berry, Mariah Carey, Spike Lee and Russell Westbrook to name a few.  Regis lives and works in Los Angeles.

For additional information or visual material please contact the gallery at by email at gallery@vonlintel.com.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/morgansimon/2021/01/21/miles-regis-is-rapidly-gaining-cultural-currency/?sh=2a5f5308b159

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