Janvier and Gus are interviewed in their former Vero Beach home on their paintings, sculptures and pottery with Victoria Palacios.
Victoria sits in the garden to talk with Jan and Gus on their art. She also takes us inside the studios.
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Thursday, September 28, 2017
__a long run____
autobiographical - challenging - immersive - pleasure of color -
Many hours of joy.
Many hours of joy.
Saturday, September 16, 2017
Friday, September 15, 2017
Fans and Vessels, Show at Mystic Museum of Art, Janvier Miller
Janvier Miller, Fans and Vessels Show at the Mystic Museum of Art The paintings begin with studies on paper, Each canvas takes about a month to complete. I work on several at once trying to a balance betwwn description and abstraction. I enjoy playfully pushing paint around, then slowly imposing order to create a unified picture. I am also a potter. The vases naturally become subject matter.
Show ran from August 4, 2017 - September 16, 2017
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Saturday, July 8, 2017
Sunday, July 2, 2017
Friday, June 30, 2017
studio
Two shows of my work coming up in August. The Underground Velvet Studio in the Velvet Mill here in Stonington is showing Gus and me together for the month.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Thursday, May 25, 2017
long gone
Before this blog I wasn't keeping track of my work. These flower paintings sold. I don't have a record of where paintings have gone.
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Monday, May 22, 2017
Monday, May 8, 2017
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Friday, March 24, 2017
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
show review
Thoughts About
The Art of Janvier Miller
There's something about the art of Janvier Miller
Walk up to one of her paintings in a gallery on a gloomy day and pay attention
to how your mood subtly elevates. It's not a matter of clever manipulation by an
artist toying with our emotions. It has much more to do with her ability to infuse
her subjects with a sense of her own tranquility and joy. It's very hard not to intuit
those sensibilities in her work.
The joy is there in the way she handles color and paint. She can imbue her
pictures with a kind of breezy nonchalance that captivates and is distinctly upbeat.
At the opposite end of her spectrum(with acrylic) seems to be a tone of oriental
elegance, of unruffled calm.
Her paintings often have an all-over quality, with a jumble of ideas and objects
covering the surface as if situated by an I Ching chance operation or, more likely, an
act of nature. But she sidesteps what could easily become a slide into chaos by
anchoring the work with a series of carefully placed everyday objects or creatures.
Or, as in her show at the Center for Spiritual Care, she may focus on a large
image that covers almost the entirety of the canvas.
For example, in the very successful Pond-Fan our attention is drawn to the
placid, light-dappled fish pond. It is only on closer inspection that we realize the
image is not simply a pond but a rendering of a pond emblazoned on another object:
a painting of a painting.
At a certain point in her career, Miller worked almost exclusively in silk screens.
She wanted her art to be affordable and available to viewers from all walks, and
this reproducible medium allowed for that. Yet the attention she paid to nuance and
the refinement of these pieces differs not in the least from the way she approaches
her more ambitious acrylics.
In the silk screens shown here, note the finesse with which she blends colors, one
shading into the next with almost indiscernible grace. It is this kind of care,
balanced by her willingness to throw caution to the winds, that distinguishes her work.
Her mastery of ceramics also deserves mention. She produces pots that have a
tactile integrity. These she finishes with images as notable for their simplicity as their
wit and sophistication. Their unconsciously Japanese flavor once encouraged an
admirer to muse that in a former life Miller surely was the abbess of a Zen convent.
Omedito gozaimasu, Miller-san.
Warren Obluck
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Palm and Cardinal
12" x 12" acrylic on panel painted at EcoFest at the Environmental Learning Center this past week end. Painting outdoors is a battle with bugs, wind-weather. It helps to work small.
Monday, February 27, 2017
Fishbowl and Begonia
acrylic on panel 20" x 24" Last painting ready for hanging show tomorrow. The 2 rooms are small so I've focused on smaller pieces.
Friday, February 24, 2017
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Friday, February 17, 2017
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Pond Fan
Acrylic on canvas 36" x 36"
This will be in my show next month at the Center for Spiritual Care.
I find square canvases harder to resolve. This is part of a series of fan subject paintings
that follow a series of vessel paintings I've been doing.
This will be in my show next month at the Center for Spiritual Care.
I find square canvases harder to resolve. This is part of a series of fan subject paintings
that follow a series of vessel paintings I've been doing.
Friday, February 3, 2017
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
casserole
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