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Julia
Anderson-Miller
Vase Paintings Exhibition
The Vase Painting Series:
This series, The Vase Paintings that I began painting late spring of 2005 and finished up early 2007 enable me to unleash the spirit within each form and still allow me to add birds, fish, insects and black-stemmed alien probes.
The Vase Painting series combines unlikely natural
companions (Tennessee River fish and African birds for example) with ancient temple sensors, or rare vases from around the world. Most of the objects in these paintings come from the Field Museum, where I spent many hours, sketch pad in hand. I have tried to expand the parameters of the containers to include a global view of culture: human-made vases of varied origin somehow all getting along in the same paintings.
Haloed songbirds show there is a heaven. Black-stemmed alien probes
prove that life exists on other planets. And olive oil bottles (that should have been discarded long ago) become dangerous tombs with a curse. All of this is done in circus colors and gold to hide the melancholy of death and to try and evoke the living.
Artist Bio:
Julia Anderson-Miller studied art history, studio arts and design at Moorhead State University and University of Minnesota. In 1982 she produced a performance piece based on her experience working as a waitress in Minneapolis. This dramatic foray led her to a six-year run as a cast member of What's So Funny about Being Female, a revue at Dudley Riggs Comedy Theater. The character she created was the subject of a one woman photographic exhibit by Keri Pickett in New York and a short, independently produced film in Minneapolis called Breakfast on Broadway. She appeared regularly on Minnesota Public Television.
Julia moved to Chicago In 1987 where she took a job as Art Director at Academy Chicago Publishers. She designed book jackets and illustrated many books, including MR. RACCOON AND HIS FRIENDS, by Sen. Eugene McCarthy and THE STORY OF MY LIFE by Augustus Hare. She also resumed painting, mainly in acrylics and water color.
Her work was shown in 1991 at Metal Works Gallery in an exhibit with Ozzie McMahon entitled Parallel Lives. The following year several of her paintings were displayed at Kiki's Bistro.
Julia's paintings were exhibited solo at the Dance Theater Workshop in New York In 1995. In 2004 Julia’s new watercolors of the universe and acrylic paintings were at Metal Works Gallery in an exhibit.
The Citadel Press in New York published her book, DREAMS OF BILL, a Collection of Funny, Strange and Downright Peculiar Dreams about Our President, Bill Clinton (1994). It received many positive reviews and was the subject of international media attention.
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