SNAPSHOTS | MIKE MILLER

These paintings are based on family photographs, many taken in Williamstown, NJ during the 1950s.

My brother and I in a questionable pose.

Mickie and Chuck, 11″ by 14″ oil on canvas

Mom with Chuck. The image captures her characteristic tension.

Spring, Williamstown, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas

Nana in her Pennsylvania backyard. She always kept a big dog.

Nana and Shep, 18″ by 14″ oil on canvas

Baba, my Polish great-grandmother, a family legend.

Baba, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas

My mom when she still had her swagger.

Virginia, 18″ by 24″ oil on canvas

Aunt Dolly, fundamentally destroyed by this point.

Dolly, 11″ by 14″ oil on canvas

Me, in overalls and a babushka, with a chicken.

Red scarf, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas

My grandparents’ wedding. I suspect that look was meant for her mother.

Nana’s wedding, 18″ by 24″ oil on canvas

Dolly and Virginia, the sisters who will eventually drive me crazy.

Sisters, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas

My brother and me and some background drama.

Williamstown, 18″ by 24″ oil on canvas

My Russian step-grandfather standing behind a rosebush, God knows why.

Grandpop, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas

Nana and me, her captive.

Nana and me, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas

Dolly in her blond era.

Birthday cake, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas

My mom at the Philadelphia Flower Show.

Flower show, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas