River Through Earth, 18” x “27, Watercolor on rice paper

Joe Miller is an established painter of American abstract landscapes.  His boldly rendered paintings bear the imprint of remembered landforms, rainwater and rivers, the slow accretion and erosion of rock.

Born and raised in the mountains of the West, he studied drawing and painting at the University of Notre Dame, earned a BFA at the University of Utah, and an MS in Art at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His work has been shown in galleries throughout the Mid-West, Southwest and Northwest. Two significant group shows he participated in were:  Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas: Paintings from Mexico, Canada, and U.S.A.; and The Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism,

Joe Miller works in a variety of media, including oils, acrylics, watercolor, oil pastel, and India ink.  His vibrant color, composition, and line, infuse his work with both complex and simple abstract geometries, clearly taking cues from nature yet distilling them to their fundamental forms. His ability to combine such expressive color with elegant, minimal, confident lines creates dynamic compositions that are compelling to a broad range of art world enthusiasts.

He is the recipient of an NEA Artist in Residence grant for three of the United States’ most spectacular national parks: Arches, Bryce Canyon, and Zion National Parks in Utah.

In addition to catalogue publications, two films have been made about the artist:

 1)     The Joe Miller Painting a Painting for a Film, produced by Roger Darbonne, Oxnard, California;

2)     A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land, a two-hour documentary of eleven artists.

His work is included in several well-known corporate and private collections.