MIKE MILLER | Art as investigation

Welcome to Mike Miller

These paintings comprise two collections along with a few random works. Family images are based on old photographs, many taken in Williamstown, New Jersey in the 1950s and others in Pennsylvania in the 70s and 80s. I’ve tried to stay true to each era. This group merits a very unpleasant narrative I’ve yet to write.

Images from China reflect my brief stay in that country, 2005-2007, to study Chinese law. Constructing them, I framed my only philosophy of art: the comedic need not undermine the outright beautiful.

I’m a Philadelphian at heart if a suburban resident right now, and I find my interest shifting to Paulownia trees along Regional Rail lines, brick row houses with marble stoops, the hard Delaware and rowers on the softer Schuylkill, Market Street both East and West, and obviously July Fourth on the Parkway. Maybe Atlantic City, too. It’s all my territory.

Please enjoy.