Miles Regis
Soul Fire
November 8 – January 10, 2026
Opening Reception:
Saturday, November 8th, 4-7pm
Miles Regis, We Got Work To Do
2025
Acrylic and Spraypaint on Canvas
63 x 43 inches (160.0 x 109.2 cm)
verso
$24,000
Miles Regis, Soul
2025
Acrylic and Spraypaint and pencil on Canvas
26 x 23 inches (66.0 x 58.4 cm)
verso
$6,000
Miles Regis, We All Just Want To Be Free
2025
Acrylic and Spraypaint on Canvas
62 x 56 inches (157.5 x 142.2 cm)
verso
$29,000
Miles Regis, Sacred Ocean
2025
Acrylic and Spray Paint on Canvas
25 x 20 inches (63.5 x 50.8 cm)
verso
$4,500
Miles Regis, Matriarch (Fire of Self)
2025
Acrylic and Spray Paint on Canvas
56 x 36 inches (142.2 x 91.4 cm)
verso
$21,000
Miles Regis, If Not Us, Then Who?
2025
Acrylic and Spray Paint on Canvas
54 x 44 inches (137.2 x 111.8 cm)
verso
$21,000
Miles Regis, Fire
2025
Acrylic and Spray Paint on Canvas
34.5 x 43.5 inches (87.6 x 110.5 cm)
verso
$15,500
Miles Regis, Feathers
2025
Acrylic and Spray Paint on Canvas
50 x 44 inches (127.0 x 111.8 cm)
verso
$22,000
Miles Regis, Ancestral Blue
2025
Acrylic and Spray Paint on Canvas
27 x 20 inches (68.6 x 50.8 cm)
verso
$5,000
Miles Regis, Love Sweet Love
2025
Acrylic on canvas
42 x 32 inches (106.7 x 81.3 cm)
signature on back
$13,000
Miles Regis, Will You Hide Me
2024
Acrylic and Spraypaint on Canvas
47.5 x 43.5 inches (120.7 x 110.5 cm)
verso
$18,000
Miles Regis, Migrant Surge
2023
Acrylic and Spray Paint on Canvas
59 x 56 inches (149.9 x 142.2 cm)
verso
$28,000
Miles Regis, Cancel Culture is Real
2023
Acrylic and Spray Paint on Canvas
68 x 44 inches (172.7 x 111.8 cm)
verso
$25,000
Miles Regis, Some Daddies Are Good Daddies
2020
Acrylic and Pencil on Canvas
60 x 43 inches (152.4 x 109.2 cm)
verso
$24,000
PRESS RELEASE
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 310.559.5700 or by email at gallery@vonlintel.com.
Von Lintel Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue, Unit A7
Santa Monica, CA 90404
gallery@vonlintel.com
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday - Saturday
from 12am until 6pm
