Joseph A. Miller

Joseph A. Miller | Private Stories

” I have always been inclined to pursue art in a manner, which emphasizes drawing and concern for naturalism.
I focus primarily on the human figure depicted in environments that create a context for psychologically charged, open-ended narratives.
Many of these narratives explore ideas about power and vulnerability.
Images of figures or figures in landscapes, in groups or in isolation, share a common feeling of significance. Wholly absorbed within themselves or the dialogue shared between one another, they wait for the unfolding of their private story.”

– Joseph A. Miller

Joseph A. Miller is an Associate Professor of Art at S.U.N.Y. Buffalo State, where he has taught drawing and painting since 1997.

He earned a B.F.A. degree from Kutztown University, Pennsylvania, in 1990 and an M.F.A. degree in painting and drawing from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1993.

Joseph Miller’s work is in numerous public and private collections. It has been shown internationally in Finland, China, Poland, and the Czech Republic, as well as across the United States, from Berkeley, California to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Joseph A. Miller’s work has been exhibited at the Arnot Art Museum, the Castellani Art Museum, and the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in New York, the Allentown Art Museum, the Woodmere Art Museum, Erie Art Museum in Pennsylvania, and the Springville Museum of Art in Utah.
He has earned numerous awards, including a First Place Award in A.D. Gallery’s Art in Times of Anxiety National Exhibition, at Pembroke, NC, a Purchase Award and a People’s Choice Award at the Royal Nebeker Gallery, in Clatsop Community College’s, Au Naturel: The Nude in The 21st Century International Exhibition, in Astoria Oregon, a First Place Award in Manifest Creative Research Gallery’s International Drawing Annual V, in Cincinnati Ohio, a Best in Show Award in the National Drawing and Painting Exhibition at the Lore Degenstein Gallery at Susquehanna University, Pennsylvania, and two Purchase Awards from Wright State University Art Galleries in Dayton, Ohio.
Joseph has given lectures about his work at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Daemen College, New York, Southern Utah University, The University of Utah, Utah State University and at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York where his work was included in the Beyond/In Western New York 2005 Exhibition.

” Quality of light is a common theme. In particular, the way in which atmospheric light and locale can suggest a sense of mystery and silence. These works are dark, humid and hopefully, at their best, memorable. For me, the most successful are those that evoke the feeling that an event is about to happen or has recently happened.”

– Joseph A. Miller

Read the full article on Art Market Magazine Issue #48