High Noon is pleased to present Ali Miller’s second exhibition with the gallery, Distant Gratification. Miller’s newest paintings engage a post-impressionist philosophy of image composition and mark-making, centering the subject— most often a self-portrait— amongst supernatural fantasy worlds which exist as meta-narratives for overlapping themes within the artist’s life. Miller’s narratives are adjacent to a kind of speculative fiction that implies its own invented but consistent social order, existing somewhere between truth and perception. This fabricated order expresses itself through a series of allegories on temptation, procrastination, indulgence, and self-sabotage within the same frame as desire, dreams, and potential.