Artist Statement
I create wall-based fiber works and installation environments that elevate aspects of human culture that are often neglected, overlooked, or discarded. I see the slow process of weaving colorful cord through these objects as an act of care and a way of assigning splendor, wonder, and purpose to otherwise obsolete objects. My work explores our desire to acquire objects--and our constant need to get rid of them and replace them with something newer and“better, serving as a reminder of the things we live with daily, the things we discard, and the subconscious imprints that domestic objects make on our memory. Installed together, these objects create a collective sense of domestic history, beauty, nostalgia, and possibility.
Bio
Liz Miller’s work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad. Her awards include a McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Fiber Artists, a McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, and numerous grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board. Miller has completed residencies at Mass MoCA (North Adams, MA), Stove Works (Chattanooga, TN), the Joan Mitchell Center (New Orleans, LA), and the McColl Center for Art + Innovation (Charlotte, NC), among others. Miller lives and works in Good Thunder, MN and is Professor of Installation Art and Drawing at Minnesota State University-Mankato.