Dimensions: 10 x 10 Media: Pinhole camera - 8" x 10" film Photography Artist Statement : I began to make multiple images of a nude in a grid in 1967 while beginning my MFA Thesis in Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
I have been photographing the nude for over 50 years, exploring different cameras, processes and techniques. From the beginning of my working with the nude, I have been interested in making an image that says something, not being just a pretty image.
I worked with a pinhole camera beginning in 1998 for about twenty five years. In the later part of this project, I focused on the Nude at Home theme as at the model’s home everything that was in the image was a part of that models identity. With the Pinhole camera I would make an image using 8x10” film in a Quaker Oats cereal cylinder and the exposures would take two minutes. Often many of the images were ruined by the model’s movements. But this was a successful project because of the special moments that were successfully captured.
Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1.5 Media: High-textured oil on gallery-wrap canvas. Artist Statement : Under Construction (12X12) is a whimsical interpretation of a physical area under renovation. The painting is bright, cheerful, textured, but also complex and very directional. Abstracted, the composition begs the questions: Are we talking about actual roads/buildings? About a psyche? A career? A dream? A life? We're all under construction constantly, voluntarily or not. This is a tiny intuitive piece that caused me to smile but also to look into my own psychological mirror. Art often does that!
Dimensions: 11 x 11 x 0.5 Media: Mixed Media: Digital painting printed on water color paper with color pencil and marker. Artist Statement : Portraits of my imagination.
Dimensions: 8 x 8 x 1.5 Media: Mixed media on wooden pnel. Artist Statement : Blue and orange is one of my favorite color combinations, and for this collage, I brought together a mix of materials in these two colors, simultaneously highlighting their visual as well as tactile textures.
Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 0.5 Media: Digital Painting printed on archival fine art paper, framed. Image size is 10" X10." With frame, dimensions are 12" X 12." Price includes frame and museum quality plexiglass. Artist Statement : Kathleen Miles is a New York City based artist who works with digital media, and also works with traditional media using acrylic and gouache paints. Her digital paintings are bold and colorful abstracts with geometric structures, layered elements, as well as painterly details and textures that are revealed when viewed at close range. Patterns and forms are repeated, conveying energy, movement and rhythm. The most basic shapes such as triangles, squares, and circles are a source of inspiration. The compositions are built primarily with layered iterations of shapes that vary in size and angles, but fit together with the aim of expressing a dynamic whole. Color plays a vital role, delineating each element, creating rhythms and interplay. Her work has been invited to be a part of many juried international and national exhibitions in New York City galleries, as well as galleries and art venues in other parts of the United States and her digital art has received numerous awards.
Dimensions: 7 x 7 x 2 Media: Oil on canvas, construct Artist Statement : I’ve always wondered what it would look like for my artwork to be shown in a museum. Through these “Museum Series” I can explore how they would look and imagine the comments from the museum-goers.
Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1 Media: Digital Archival Photograph Sublimated to Aluminum Artist Statement : I am passionate about photography as an art form. In a world overfull with images, ideas, and messages streaming at us at warp speed, there is profound value in the thoughtfulness, the provocation, the silent aesthetic, the power of a single image made with the vision and ever evolving techniques of fine art photography.
Dimensions: 12 x 12 Media: Acrylic on canvas Artist Statement : I started the piece "Loops and Lines" by applying cobalt blue acrylic paint to a canvas using a soft roller. Later I added mars black acrylic paint to the top of the painting.
I applied the white "lines" using strands of embroidery yarn dipped in white and in iridescent white acrylic paint, as well as some blue and black acrylic paint. I added the blue "loops" using strands of embroidery yarn dipped in cobalt blue acrylic paint.
Dimensions: 8 x 8 x 2 Media: Mixed media assemblage with wooden stamp handles in glass fronted box Artist Statement : "I Am Blue" the title indicates emphasis on the color blue. Being "blue" can mean a depressed state. But the Blues in music brings us out of ourselves to cope with the ups and downs of life. So too, can art.
Dimensions: 12 x 12 Media: Digital graphic on aluminum Artist Statement : Experimentation through digital manipulation of a photo of a brick building in DC (Eastern Market) led to this collection of colorful squares. The viewer might get the impression of stained glass windows, but the squares reminded me of an apartment or office building lit up at night. I had some fun by superimposing smaller, rotated versions of the image on itself, resulting in the smaller squares.
Dimensions: 7 x 7 x 1 Media: Oil on Canvas, painting is 7x7 inches mounted in a 12x12 inch frame. Artist Statement : The way the light hits this sink each sunny morning, with the dramatic highlight on the wall behind is always so captivating. In the tradition of artists painting their studio sinks, I created this little study in oil.
Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 0.5 Media: Graphite Artist Statement : I like to keep myself in shape by doing these small expression drawings often. This is a favorite.
Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1.5 Media: Oil on clayboard Artist Statement : In a new series involving landscape and abstract I am studying cloud formation with depth and light from a distant perspective. In doing so, the point of view feels like the cover of a mysterious story. The hues dance with the idea of being in an illuminating dream or dimension. For me, the tobacco barns hold an eerie, but magical essence because they encapsulate so many compressed and untold stories of our past. In this piece, the clouds express the barn's deep and expansive stories.
Dimensions: 11 x 9 x 7 Media: Handcarved Danby marble stone sculpture on 12" x 12" base (i.e., frame). Artist Statement : "Touching Words" sculpture depicts life-sized human hand touching a stack of books. The hand, representing the living human, pairs seamlessly with a defining characteristic of our humanity -- our written language. Each element inseparable with the other.
Dimensions: 8 x 8 x 0.5 Media: collaged with pieces of oil and acrylic paintings Artist Statement : This piece was inspired by an evening spent photographing on the beach. The grasses made a sort of screen through which to view the water.
I have been repurposing old paintings of mine, giving them new life as materials for collage. The background sky had been waiting patiently for a new foreground and so off I went into the dune grasses. I find it satisfying to take something old, forgotten, and discarded and give it new life. Everything in my studio has the potential for new use. Just like life's experiences. They can be seen as negatives or positives depending on perspective. All can be used to find a new way forward.
Dimensions: 8 x 8 Media: Oil Artist Statement : A square meal or at least part of one. Doing a small painting keeps it fresh and lively. I do small paintings often just to keep the juices flowing.
