Mixed Media
for when you need more than one tool for the job
Love, MN, 2022
Through the mobile arts studio, Miller engages with communities at public events.
The Love, MN project is a collaborative community project that is offered by the studio. The project was done for first time at the International Festival in Worthington, MN. That experience inspired this piece.
The work includes acrylic paint, alcohol ink, ink, cardboard, paper, canvas, and tissue paper.
Self Portrait
As we level-up in life, we change. Why can’t a self portrait be as ever changing as ones life experience?
Self Portrait, unfinished
Miller revisits this piece every few years and adds gesso panels to represent the events and people that have reshaped her self portrait.
The mediums and materials used for Miller’s Self Portrait include: an, up-cycled tabletop, cheese cloth, thread, paint, gesso, chalk, graphite, charcoal, and polyurethane.
Polyurethane is a medium that transforms this work. The surface is reflective, the viewer will find themselves a part of the work and part of the story it tells.
Planets Collection
This collection of work is designed as a field study. Miller explores the topography of a mythical planet. The project started with textural studies of rocks and geographical structures and, moved into plant biology and bio-luminescent plant life. The latest work added to the collection was completed in 2017.
These pieces start with a textured layer of gesso. Using a combination of paper mache, guache paint, oil pastels, conte crayons, and charcoal, Miller fabricates a richly textured landscape.
Later plant life drawings in the series were done in oil pastels.
Charcoal +
Miller enjoys combining paper mache and collage with charcoal work.
One of the displayed pieces is the second panel in a triptych. It describes the journey of a woman named Elizabeth. The story is based around the turn of the 20th century. All of the text in these works is backwards in reference to mirrors and the photography of that time.
The other works displayed here were made as samples for the Lamberton Installation project to test how the different materials would interact.
These pieces utilized a reverse photo transfer technique, collage, and charcoal work.
