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My Studio is rebuilt and I'm back to work. Check back once in a while for new paintings.
On May 13, 2010, my studio burned to the ground. Over twenty years worth of artwork was lost in the fire. Luckily, I have images of almost everything that was destroyed. Don't worry, I'll make more. Enjoy.
Steve Miller is a stay-at-home daddy to two little girls. He paints whenever he's not taking care of them or exhausted from taking care of them. His paintings sometimes reflect his life as a domesticated man, finding inspiration from daily routines. At other times, Steven's paintings reflect his desire to break away from routines in hopes of discovering new terrain via abstraction.
Steven Miller received his BFA from the University of Oklahoma in 1995. Since then his paintings have been given to family, loaned to friends, commissioned and licensed by companies, selected for publications, collected by people just like you, bartered for preschool tuition, put on consignment in galleries and selected for exhibitions around the nation, including Michigan where he currently resides.
If you ask Steven what else has shaped his artwork, he'd say two things: his background as an art director in advertising and his moonlighting as a rusty, improvisational, pseudo-jazz/rock drummer. Since the mid-nineties, Steven has done graphic design and advertising (LookAtMyDesigns.com) for clients such as Pepsi, Coca-Cola and Rolling Rock Beer and he continues to create unique brand identities for new businesses. Of course, this experience has helped him hone his compositions, concepts and visual articulation. But, it also gave him a deeper realization that it is important to forget everything he's learned in advertising and rely on his instincts in order to push the expressive quality of his artwork while striving for something true to his personal vision. Furthermore, Steven's expressiveness also comes from his process of making quick decisions while being experimental...a definite parallel with the way he drums. (CV/Resume)
As an artist, painting helps me capture some of life's simple moments while exploring complex emotions. My process is improvisational and my goal is to be inventive, open and reflective. I paint when I have an idea as well as when I am searching for one. That process of discovery is one of the things that drives me. With a completely open mind, I'll often just push paint around and use free association until subject matter magically appears and grabs hold of my imagination. Then, I refine and develop what I see until it becomes a clear and believable environment. I find that archetypal imagery and ordinary household objects often emerge and become metaphors to explain complex emotions.