MORE THAN YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE ARTIST Boith Sherry Miller, a native New Yorker, was born and bred in Philadelphia. She began painting at age five and hasn't stopped yet. At 17 she escaped to New York, via Montreal, where she attended Barnard College by day and the Art Students League by night. By the time she was 22 she had obtained a B.A. in Anthropology and had studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Tyler School of Art, the Art Students' League and Columbia Graduate School in sculpture. New Yawk New York in the early sixties was Abstract Expressionist or Nothing. Sherry was Nothing, a painter and sculptor of figures, landscapes and interiors. Around 1972 she moved from New York's Soho to the Siberian visual paradise of rural Maine. Painting constantly, she was always moved by the spectacular Maine light and terrain that had captivated American painters for over a hundred years.Since 1978 she has held regular exhibitions through the Northeast, New York and Pennsylvania. In late 1991 she moved to the Bay Area where she has exhibited at Red Oak on Solano Avenue in Berkeley, Falling Dog Cafe in the Mission and at the Breger Art Institute. Colah Sherry Miller, aka Miranda Knickerbocker and Valencia Guerrero, works in oil pastel, oils, watercolors and laser printing. Her only conscious interest is in color and her subject matter is her vehicle for using color. She began creating imaginative tropical and third world settings long before she saw such places. After painting alligators, palm trees, tropical plants and non-Caucasians for years, Miller traveled to West Africa and Central and Northern Asia. Qvilts (sic) Miller also sews painted quilts. These consist of pieces of painted paper, or a series of small paintings or laser prints of original paintings, machine stitched together. Her American Landscape Quilt, 6' x 7' consisting of 42 oil paintings, was displayed in a craft exhibition in the San Francisco Airport. Writah Miller was an art journalist and critic for major New England papers. When she visited Maine in August, 1994, a gallery owner, not realizing he hadn't seen her for four years, tried to encourage her to review the show in his gallery. In the Bay Area she began innocently writing about new work and new personalities in digital media. She became Managing Editor for a major world wide web site about nanotechnology and then built the SherryArt web site using her writing, graphic and technical skills. See the first digital art review of a digital art show here. Les Enfants Terribles Miller/Knickerbocker/Guerrero used to have three children, all geniuses. Now she has seven. Go figure. Sherry's Paintings Quilts American Landscape Quilt Back to Sherry's Home Page ©1995-2000 Sherry Miller.All Rights Reserved. info@sherryart.com