SHERRY MILLER SHERRY MILLER has exhibited frequently in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maine and San Francisco. In addition to working in oils, Miller has used digital media since 1978 when early color copiers became available. Her intensely colored oils, oil pastels, watercolors and giclée prints portray several major themes: Africans and other third world people; volcanoes; and painted quilts. Since growing up in Philadelphia, a severely racially polarized environment, Miller has painted African Americans and native Africans perhaps as a way of healing her early experiences there. In 1988 she spent a month in the West African country of Cameroon. People she met in Cameroon continue to figure prominently in her work. As world politics continue to evolve, Miller feels that portraying Africans in visual media becomes a political statement. She lived in Maine for eighteen years but after nine years of being seduced by the incredible beauty of the Maine landscape, she longed for red, red, and more red. Miller began painting volcanoes although she has never seen a real one except from Highway 5 in the Northwest. Volcanoes allow for the intensity of color that Miller finds normal in everyday life. For more than twenty-five years Miller has also been sewing together small paintings to make large quilts – sometimes out of canvas, sometimes out of paper. These painted quilts have a wide variety of themes from abstract, to Russian churches, to landscapes, gardens, and even fish quilts. They are made to be framed and hung on the wall, however, and not put on your bed. Miller studied art history at Barnard College and Columbia University. She studied studio art at the Pennsylvania Academy, the Tyler School of Art, Columbia University Graduate School, and the Art Students League in New York City. Arriving in California in late 1991, Miller became an early Internet visionary, guru and web developer. She also maintained a studio for many years at Hunter's Point in San Francisco and has just opened a new studio in the ICB Building in Sausalito where she is painting full time.
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