Lavely Miller Spotlight Exhibition - April 29-May14, 2023

ARCADIA SPOTLIGHT

Lavely Miller

Lavely Miller (b. 1978, Camp and figures have focused of universal experience. literal. That the format evokes around her, close members

Miller’s work is held in McVarish’s Architectural Philadelphia and the Twenty-First Art Basel and fellowships In 2021 she was named Miller graduated summa Clinical Mental Health from Baltimore, Maryland. Her

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Lejeune, North Carolina) is a contemporary realist painter who works in large scale. For the past three years her portraits focused primarily on the visual narration of the effects of trauma. They are windows into intimate, personal journeys and reflections experience. Mark Jenkins, writing for the Washington Post, describes her work as containing depths that are “both metaphorical and evokes Renaissance art seems apt...her paintings have an eerie timelessness.” Miller draws reference from faces she observes members of her family and friends, found images in the media and film stills. She paints with her fingers, building layers and layers of acrylic and thick gel medium. in various public collections such as the New Salem Museum in New Salem, Massachusetts, the University of Virginia, Maria Architectural Library in San Francisco, the National Center for Transgender Equality in Washington, D.C., the Delancey Street Museum in Twenty-First Century Fox and News Corporation building in New York City. Awards for Miller’s painting include a top prize at 2013’s fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Dacia Gallery in New York City, where she studied under Iliya Mirochnick. named a finalist for the Bennet Prize and in 2022 received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Her work has been published in interviews, reviews and textbooks worldwide. summa cum laude with a BFA in Studio Art from James Madison University. She holds both master’s and doctoral level degrees in from the University of Virginia, completing her residency in the area of serious mental illness. She currently lives and works in Her work is represented by Arcadia Contemporary (Los Angeles, CA) and Artist’s Proof (Washington D.C.). She also serves on the board of Foundry Gallery, Washington’s oldest member-run contemporary art space.

Eternity in Her Eyes

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Emerging Acrylic on Paper on Canvas

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The Beauty of Youth

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Breathless Acrylic on Paper on Canvas

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Lindsay with a Parakeet

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Casually Cool

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Poseidon

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There Is Hope

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Anne-Isabelle

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Classic Beauty

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Goddess

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On the Horizon

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A Fresh Face

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A State of Undress

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The Romanticist

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