Gammy Miller
Gammy Miller · Source: New York Artists Circle · Rights retained by the original rights holders
- Medium
- Fiber, Ink, Pencil/Colored Pencil, Watercolor
- Based in
- West Village, Manhattan
- Practice
- Collage, Drawing, Fiber/Textile Art, Works on Paper
Gammy Miller is a self-taught artist using mixed media. Her drawings are accumulations of marks, stitching and collage that reflect her interests in natural history including marine biology as well as the concern that w… Full biography
Biography
Gammy Miller is a self-taught artist using mixed media. Her drawings are accumulations of marks, stitching and collage that reflect her interests in natural history including marine biology as well as the concern that we are on the precipice of a much diminished biosphere. Her work is inspired, in part, by the many years spent in Skunk Hollow in what is now the National Seashore of Fire Island. Her work has been exhibited in small group shows through out the United States and in Botswana as well as solo exhibitions including the Hudson Opera House Gallery and The Courthouse Gallery in Lake George, New York. Her work is included in the collections of The Roberson Museum, Binghamton, NY and The Decorative Arts Museum in Little Rock, Arkansas. After she received her degree in Languages from Adelphi University, Gammy moved to Manhattan where she has lived in the West Village for 50 years and in the last 10 years has had the honor of working as volunteer horticultural assistant on the High Line.
Artist statement
Along with biological interests, I have a fascination with minuscule organisms and with microscopy. I once had the privilege of peering through an electron microscope in which one could see the cells of a pollen grain and a dog's hair. It was an eye-opener. In addition, I love the act of repetition which in these tumultuous times has a calming effect. Through aggregations of small marks and small stitches I "build" cellular structures that are the sum of their parts.
The naming of the compositions often uses a kind of binary Latin nomenclature in the descriptors of their biomorphic features and structures.
