ONE PERSON SHOW IN NEW YORK

Please come if you can!

Still Moments
Representational Still Life and Landscape Paintings by
Nancy Bea Miller
May 28th – June 21st, 2008
Opening Reception for the artist:
Saturday, June 7th from 1 to 4 pm
at
SHERRY FRENCH GALLERY, INC.
601 WEST 26TH STREET
NEW YORK, NY 10001-1101
212-647-8867 fax 212-647-8899
sherryfrench@earthlink.net
www.sherryfrenchgallery.com

To see the images on-line, just click here!


Monhegan Museum, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches, 2008

Magazine Article

My painting Blue Hydrangeas and Grandmother's Clock was recently the focus of an article in En Punto, the South American timepiece design magazine. "Huh? What? How?" you ask? Easy answer, the internet! One of the magazine's editors, Beatriz Bunduel Smith, was googling around for images of women's clocks, when she came across my painting. She then emailed me a few questions, and when she heard the story, how it really WAS my grandmother's clock etc. she seemed very interested, and wrote up the article...just a little human interest piece tucked in amongst the more serious (and swanky!) industry analyses. Guess I'm going international, or as my son H pointed out "intercontinental" (En Punto is based in Guatemala.)

It's a beautiful full color two page spread, The only slight downside is that the article is all in Spanish (the price one pays for "going international" I guess!) Here are some excerpted paragraphs, in translation:

Each element in the painting is there for a reason: the alive and colourful flowers represent a living and feminine memory. The clock, passed from one female generation to another…becomes a memento that contains emotional memories. It is a mere object, but it grips time and makes it stand still in remembrance.

This composition by Nancy Bea Miller, created with impeccable technique and well-studied colours, is not a mere painting. It is a memory made into a painting, a link of blood turned into colour. In the heart of everything we find a living and beating being: the antique clock. ~Beatriz Bunduel Smith

Waterpark, oil on canvas, 20 x 30 inches

YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW

Group invitational
June 4 to June 29, 2008
Receptions:
First Friday: June 6, 5-8:30pm
Sunday, June 8, 1-4pm

Artists' House Gallery
57 North Second Street Philadelphia, PA 19106 USA
(215) 923-8440 Wed - Sun 12-5 PM or by appointment

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I will be at the Sunday reception, so please stop by then if you are in town.
For more information about this exhibition click here.

IN A MAGAZINE

A painting of mine, In the Chestnut Grove, has been reproduced in the magazine Artful Blogging. It was included in an article about the weekly blog-meme called Illustration Friday, in which I sometimes participate. The article runs several pages and includes many beautiful pieces by several artists. I'm only a very sporadic IF participant, so I was very surprised indeed that that one image was picked from the hundreds of fine artists and talented illustrators who enter every single week. But something about this painting caught their eye. A very pleasant surprise!



In the Chestnut Grove, 20 x 16 inches, oil on canvas

INTERVIEW

I was recently interviewed by Sue Smith of Ancient Artist. It was just posted today. You can read it here.

Many thanks Sue. Some of her questions made me understand a few things I hadn't realized before...the mark of a good interviewer!

FLOWERS IN FEBRUARY SHOW

January 30-February 23
Sherry French Gallery
601 West 26th Street
New York City, NY 10001

Winter Treats, oil on canvas, 16 x 16 inches

I'M TEACHING

a class this semester at the Wayne Art Center. Portrait Painting in Oils. It's fully enrolled at the moment, but more information can be found on this page.


Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, 1785
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (French, 1749–1803)

Lost Dreams on Canvas

is a program developed by Veterans Against Drugs and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, my alma mater. Families devastated by the murder of a family member can give photos of their loved one to the coordinator at PAFA who then contacts one of their volunteer alumni artists to paint a memorial portrait.

I painted this young man whose beautiful spirit seemed very present in my studio while I was working. It was a moving experience. Only after I delivered the painting to PAFA yesterday did I google around to see if I could find anything out about him. I was stunned to find an enormous amount of info on his murder and even this tremendously touching short video.

14th Annual Lost Dreams on Canvas Holiday Celebration & Memorial Event
Dec 16, 2007 1-4 pm
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
215-972-7600
Lost Dreams on Canvas

Ronald Santiago, 20 x 16 inches, oil on canvas, 2007