Inclinations

Rods

IRONS

BACKGROUND:
After a career as a professional potter, Irene Miller found a new passion, monotype printmaking Her background as a potter and the marks she made on her ceramics have influenced the shape and design of her monotypes and mixed media works on paper.  Irene prints on the presses at Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, Connecticut..

ARTIST'S STATEMENT:
My prints and mixed-media works are in the most part non-representational but straddle the line between realism and abstraction.   I use family photos and documents and ideas that have long been a part of my life and surroundings.  I have been experimenting with textures, layers, and lines and how they interact with each other on the paper.  Using layers of similar colors and values I build up my prints and collages with various printing and transferring techniques.   My artwork is also based on mark-making and how the mark in its abstract nature is able to communicate the excitement I feel in composing my work.

SELECTED EXHIBITS

2006    Connecticut Women Artists, Inc. 77th Annual Open Juried Exhibition, New Haven, CT.
2006    CityLights Gallery,  Flower Power, Bridgeport, CT.
2006     Jewish Community Center, Printmakers  of Creative Arts Workshop, Woodbridge, CT,
            invitational.
2006    Monotype Guild of New England Portfolio, Coming of Age, Chatham, MA, juried.
2005    Los Angeles Printmaking Society, 18th National Exhibition, Pasadena, CA, juried.
2005    Mount Ida College, Envisioning the Surface, Newton, MA, juried.
2005    Haviland  Street Gallery, Women Make Art, South Norwalk, CT.
2005    Creative Arts Workshop, Cultural Passages, New Haven, juried.
2005    Sacred Heart University, Singular and Unique, Bridgeport, CT, juried.
2005    Jewish Community Center, Facing our Ancestors, Woodbridge, CT, invitational.
2005    Orange Library, Expressions on Paper, Orange, CT (two-person show).
2005    City Lights Gallery, The Heart, Bridgeport, CT.
2004    Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Members Show, South Norwalk, CT.
2004    Small Space Gallery, 6" x 6", New Haven, CT, juried.
2004    Arts and Literature Laboratory, 6" x 6", New Haven, CT, juried.
2003    Center for Contemporary Printmaking, International Miniature Print Competition, South                                    Norwalk, CT, juried.
2003    Mattatuck Museum, The Connecticut Vision, Waterbury, CT, juried.
2002    Silvermine Guild Arts Center, Art of the Northeast Annual Exhibition, New Caanan, CT,                                     juried.
2002    American Print Alliance, Memorial Portfolio, New York, NY.
2002    University of Connecticut, Redemption: Art from Found Materials, Stamford, CT.
2001    Silvermine Guild Arts Center, National Print Biennial, New Caanan, CT, juried.
2001    Canton Arts Guild, The Miniature Show, Canton, CT, juried.
2000    The Stamford Museum and Nature Center, New Art Annual, Stamford, CT, juried.
1999    New London Art Society, Printmaking: Imagery and Process, New London, CT.
1996    John Slade Ely House, Connecticut Women Artists Annual Exhibit, New Haven, CT, juried.
1996    Small Space Gallery,  City Spirits Annual Juried Artists Members Show, New Haven, CT.

1997-2006   New Haven Paint and Clay Annual Exhibitions, New Haven, CT, juried.
1999-2005   Hamden Hall School, Printmaking at Creative Arts Workshop, Hamden, CT.
1998-2005   City-wide Open Studios, New Haven, CT

ARTIST AFFILIATIONS.

  Los Angeles Printmaking Society
  Connecticut Women Artists
  New Haven Paint and Clay
  Center for Contemporary Printmaking
  Women=s Caucus for the Arts
  Monotype Guild of New England

All the works shown on this Website are protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States of America. They may be reproduced only by permission of the artist.