The things I make— collage, assemblage, mixed media— are hybrids, internally diverse and externally beholden to a broad range of influences, from African masks to Renaissance Madonnas to the Merzbau of modernist Kurt Schwitters. Story-like, the pieces are narrative, but broken into fragments; their subjects, often women, recognizable but not exactly real. I wish to make something which invites many levels of interpretation, rather than dictating a single idea. In my pieces, backgrounds are often ambiguous (heavily patterned, black or abstract), suspending the image in a visual limbo, precluding fixed meaning and urging the viewer’s interpretation. In this sense, the work is incomplete, purposely so, propelled outward as is, into the unknown.
Awards and Honors
2014 Winner, Courting Art, Montgomery County Community College, Ambler, PA
2012 Tuition award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Publications
2014 Miller, PhD, Debra, “Envisioning Shakespeare at 450,” published by Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Exhibitions
Solo
2015 Under The Skin, InLiquid @ 222, Philadelphia, PA
Syringa Tree, Theater Horizon Gallery, Norristown, PA
2013 - 2014 Tango, Ringpfeil Gallery, Haverford, PA
2011 One Part Paradise, Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Group
2019 Visionary Voices, Magic Garden Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Four Artists, Cerulean Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Constructing A Body, The InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, InLiquid at The Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Naked in New Hope, Sidetracks Gallery, New Hope, PA
Sixth Annual Germantown Show, Imperfect Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Art from the Heart: Hurricane Relief Fundraiser, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
2016 Dear Fleisher, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia,PA
Naked In New Hope, Sidetracks Gallery, New Hope, PA
Second Language, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
A Man's World, Hamilton Street Gallery, Bound Brook, NJ
2014 Dear Fleisher, Fleisher Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Courting Art, Montgomery County Community College, Ambler, PA
Annual Juried Show, SPP Galleries, Conshohocken, PA
2013 Envisioning Othello, Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Annual Juried Show, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
Professional Artists’ Show, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
2011 Mascara, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Members Show, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
2010 Anniversary Show, Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Invitational Exhibition, Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Contemporary Voices, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Invitational Exhibit, Fleisher Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Collaborative 22, Third Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibit, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA Curator: Julian Robson
