SHAWNA MILLER
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SHAWNA MILLER
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About
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The Artist

The Artist

Shawna Miller is a figurative oil painter living and working in El Jebel, CO. Her current work focuses on the bittersweet beauty and weight of motherhood. She began oil painting seven years ago and has studied in the studio of Michelle Doll in Hoboken, NJ. Shawna moved to the Roaring Fork Valley five years ago from Manhattan, NY with her husband and two young sons and she is a 2022 Aspen Art Museum Fellows participant.


"My paintings begin with my own photography. Most of my muses are friends or acquaintances, and I start by photographing them in their home environments. I do much of my compositional work in the photo-editing process in which I crop images or combine elements of different photos to define a narrative and mood. Recently, I’ve gone a step further with technology to break the composition into bright color fields that I paint onto a primed panel or linen as a fluid underpainting. I generally cover this underpainting completely with layers of oil paint, but sometimes I leave it visible as a window into the process, a graphic element, and a play between flatness and dimensionality. Some of my paintings I intentionally leave “unfinished” as an invitation to the viewer to fill in the gaps."


Work

Exhibitions

solo

Love Letters to My Mother — The Art Base, Basalt, Colorado November 2022

two person

UPCOMING with Maria Teicher — FAO Art Hub, Oslo, Norway. October 2023

select group shows

Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO — Aspen Art Museum Artist Fellows Show

March 2023R2 Gallery Carbondale CO — Valley Visual Arts Show February 2023

Aspen Chapel Gallery, Aspen CO — Les Femmes, April 2023

Basalt Library, Basalt, CO — Capsule, part of the “Taking Up Space” initiative, May 2022

BrooklynWorks, Brooklyn, NY — RPCV NYC Art Show, November 2016

Fellowships > Residencies

Château d’Orquevaux Artist Residency, Denise Diderot Grant recipient — Champagne-Ardenne, France — July 2023

2022 Aspen Art Museum Artist Fellowship, Aspen, Colorado



Education

Independent study in VR technologies via Harvestworks, NYC — Spring/Summer 2023

Private study/mentorship with painter Michelle Doll, Hoboken, NJ — 2018-2022The Rome Artist Workshops, Rome, Italy — July 2018

University of Miami, Miami, FL — M.A., International Political Economy, 2012

Septima Ars, Escuela de Cine y Television, Madrid, Spain — Certificate in Camera > Lighting for Film — 2004

University of the South, Sewanee, TN — B.A., History, 2000


Press & Speaking Engagements

Aspen Public Radio Interview

Local artist paints ‘emotional and physical manifestations of motherhood’ in new show

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Essay by Mark Eberfeld: Shawna Miller’s “Love Letters to my Mother”


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Artist Talk at The Art Base

In conversation with artist Teresa Booth Brown, November 15, 2022.

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Aspen Art Museum Artist Fellows Presentations

February 8, 2022

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