about

Sarah Gee Miller’s work is largely concerned with clarity, equilibrium, and the expressive possibilities of vibrant color.

For her, there is an interesting duality to hard-edged abstraction. It hides energy behind order, and is capable of great emotional variance despite a minimal vocabulary. This is where her art lives: a Mesotopia, in the world but not of it, sympathetic to society and yet unable to abide it.

In many ways painting targets hits a kind of sweet spot between the formal and the aesthetic. Target, of course, being shorthand for concentric circles, a bewitching image drawn since our species could pull a stick through dust. Miller believes she could paint targets forever and never run out of ways to alter, change, enhance and engage them. See them as you will, as meditative, instructive, divine or basic; to her they are a visual respite, and they will always form a central part of her practice.

Recently she has welcomed a softer, more biomorphic imagery into the work, forms and shapes that reference our natural world and our place in it. Always experimenting with new ideas and methods, her dedication to bright, clear, saturated color will always be a primary one. Miller finds her shapes by distorting fonts through a digital process, creating templates from those shapes using a plotter, then employing a complex masking and taping process to use them repeatedly. In this sense, derived primarily from a font, every painting is a secret language.

Above all, she is hoping to create a sense of calm and elation as we walk through these challenging and divisive times.