LINDA A. MILLER

STATEMENT

Creative expression has been a lifelong passion.  I am inspired by natural forces - the flow of water, the heat of the sun.  To my eye there is beauty in the delicate balance between dynamic movement and meditative stillness.  My challenge is to visually describe the playful quality of those varied energies on fabric with surface texture and color.  I work intuitively, and thrive on the unpredictability of the art making process, which nourishes my journey of discovery and appreciation of the world around me.

BIOGRAPHY

Linda trained in the visual arts with a focus on printmaking and photography, receiving a B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles.  She completed the Printmaking Certificate Program at Bradford College of Art and Technology in England.  A skilled seamstress, Linda found her way to quiltmaking in the early 90's.  She soon found ways to expand away from more traditional quilt forms with the addition of painting, drawing and printmaking to her quilts.  This meshing of techniques made a natural transition to fiber art becoming the medium of choice.  Linda's work is commissioned and exhibited nationally in solo and group shows at venues including Visions Art Museum, Sacred Threads, PAQA-South, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Road to California, Museum of Ventura County, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and Avenue 50 Gallery.  In 2005 Linda developed  The Bhavana Project, an ongoing community work based on Tibetan prayer flags.

Linda is a member of Studio Art Quilt Associates, Surface Design Association, Visions Art Museum, Quilts on the Wall, and Fiber Fanatics.

Linda has been a long time student of yoga and eastern studies, as well as a certified yoga teacher since 1988. Specializing in adaptive yoga, she taught for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society for many years.  Linda finds tools within yoga and art traditions that allow each person to bring out the best from within themselves.

RESUME

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Interpretations 2011, Visions Art Museum, California 2011

Sharing Stories: Expressions and Stitched Meanings, Front Porch Gallery, California 2011

Merge and Flow, Surface Design Association, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minnesota 2011

Sacred Threads 2011, Virginia 2011

Art Quilts Movement,  PAQA-South, North Carolina 2011

Road to California, California 2011

Innovations in Fiberart V, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, California 2010

Quilting is Art, The Framery and Fine Art Gallery, California 2010

Becoming Art at the Seams, Museum of Ventura County, California; AQS Quilt Show, Tennessee 2010

Dream Rocket, Florida and Kentucky 2010 - 2011

Open Call L.A. 2009, L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, California 2009

The Bhavana Project 2, Washington 2009

Explorations 2009 - Santa Monica Quilt Guild Show, California 2009

International Fiber Collaborative - Interdependence, Alabama 2009

SAA Squared, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, California 2009

Portrait of the Sewing Artist, Sewing Arts Center, California 2008

Santa Cruz Art League 4^th Annual Fiber Art Exhibit, California 2008

The Bhavana Project, New Mexico and Washington 2008

International Fiber Collaborative - Gas Station Project, New York 2008

The Bhavana Project, Red Bluff Art Gallery, California 2007

University of California Los Angeles, California 1979

Bradford College of Art & Technology, England 1975

Santa Monica College, California 1974