Katherine Downey Miller

My work is about the honest energy of nature. Often times, it is a meditation on my thoughts and feelings regarding nature, surrounding and the elements.
I believe that beauty lies in minimal complexity. I create freedom within structure. I paint because it is the most intuitive and effective form of communication for me. When my mind is in a creative, uninterrupted intellectual flow, I feel at peace, and am drawn to the pure organic quality of paint, to the feeling of the paint, and to its many colors. I express myself through the feeling and power of brushstrokes.

Everything about nature and the landscape inspires my imagery. I make decisions about imagery by considering the honesty and purity of color and the use of visual metaphor. My goal is to try to create paintings that capture visual and emotional moments. Using the shapes derived from the landscape, I distill the visual essence of purity to capture feelings through abstraction. I turn paintings in different directions to abstract the landscape. Working from a foundation in painting and drawing, building up, constantly reworking, reorganizing, the work becomes an investigation of form and content

MFA Illustration, Illustration as Visual Journalism, School of Visual Arts, NYC, 1996

BS Studio Art/ Art History, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1993

Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy, 1992

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015-New Art Center, Two Satellite Galleries exhibiting landscapes, Newtonville, MA
2014-“A Tribute to the Landscape,” Land’s Sake Artist in Residence, Weston, MA
-“Lines of the Land,” Land’s Sake Artist in Residence, Josiah Smith Tavern, Weston, MA
2013-“Minimal Imagery,” Curator, John Quatrale, Athan’s Cafe Gallery, Brighton, MA
-“Meditations,” Museum School Gallery, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
2012-“Touched/ New Paintings,” Galatea Fine Arts, Boston, MA
-“Paintings and Drawings,” Katherine Downey Miller, The Liberty Hotel, Boston, MA
2010-“Moving Through Light,” Galatea Fine Arts, Boston, MA
SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2015-On Site in 16 Cities, Berlin Collective, NYC
2014-Studio Visit Magazine, Volume Twenty-Four, Open Studios Press, Juror: Barbara O’Brien, Executive Director, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2013-“To Deny Our Nothingness,” Berlin Collective, Gallery Brooklyn, Juror: Carolina Puente, NY Curator, Berlin Collective, NYC, NY
2012-“Community of Artists,” Danforth Museum, Juror: Katherine French, Director, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
2011-“Community of Artists,” Danforth Museum, Juror: Katherine French, Director, Danforth Museum, F...