December Group Show

I have four paintings in the new group show at F.A.N. Gallery in old city Philadelphia! The opening reception is tomorrow, Friday December 1, 2017, 5-8 p.m! All are welcome. The show is up through December 30th. 🌟
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For more information: https://www.thefangallery.com/

F.A.N. Gallery
221 Arch Street 
Philadelphia, PA 19106
215-922-5155
fan@thefangallery.com

Summer Show in a New Gallery

"Pink Roses with Mints", oil on canvas, 22 x 18 inches

I'm tickled pink to have been invited to be in "Summer Paintings" at F.A.N. Gallery in Old City Philadelphia! I have four pieces in the show.

July 7 - August 19, 2017

Opening Receptions:
Friday, July 7, 5-9 PM
Friday August 4, 5-9 PM

Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 12 to 6 PM
F.A.N. Gallery
221 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
215-922-5155
fan@thefangallery.com

At the fun first opening reception with fellow artists Rachel Constantine (l) and Susan O'Reilly (r!) There's another reception on Friday August 4 if you missed the first one.

For more information on this show please see: https://www.thefangallery.com/

Judge of Many Flowers

Hey, I am honored to be one of the judges for this upcoming exhibition at the Philadelphia Sketch Club:

Art of the Flower 2016 
March 4-26, 2016 
Enter Online http://sketchclub.org/psc-official-online-submission-site/ Online Entry 
Deadline: Sunday Feb 14, 2016 at Midnight

Watercolor Award: Taneisha

Taneisha Watercolor 2015 NBMiller

I was honored to receive Best Transparent Watercolor Award for my painting Taneisha at the Philadelphia Sketch Club’s 2016 Annual Works on Paper Exhibition.
• On view: Jan 2-24, 2016
• Reception: Sunday Jan 10, 2016 2-4 PM
• The Philadelphia Sketch Club
235 S. Camac Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107-5608
215-545-9298
www.sketchclub.org

Receiving the medal  photo credit: Molly Bolger Jenssen

The 2016 award winners line-up  

Many thanks to the judges, and to the Philadelphia Sketch Club, and most of all to my model Taneisha Shaw whose inner and outer beauty inspired my painting.

Ellipsis Gallery Group Show

Sunny Sketch watercolor 9 x 5 inches 2015 NBMiller

I have two watercolor paintings in "Studio Cats & Friends" at Ellipsis Gallery. 
Opening Reception 12/3/2015, 5-9 pm.
Ellipsis Gallery

5009 Florence Ave Philadelphia, PA 19143

phone: 267-664-7939

https://www.facebook.com/PreGallery/shop?rid=10153729650792978&rt=8&location=group&actor_id=669647977&story_id=0&ad_id=0&_ft_"Flesh")

Panel at PAFA

Life & Work and & Art & Family: Is a Balance Possible?
A Panel Discussion with Michael Kowbuz, Nancy Bea Miller and Susan White

Wednesday, July 15, 6-8 p.m.
Hamilton Auditorium
PAFA The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Presence  oil on canvas  2014  24 x 30 inches   Nancy Bea Miller

This panel discussion will range over the issues artists confront when they integrate their studio practice into a life that may include work obligations, the pull of close relationships, and the everyday distractions of Netflix, yard work and answering emails. We’ll discuss time management, studio set-ups, and maintaining supportive connections with art communities.

Michael Kowbuz is the co-founder of Cerulean Arts Gallery & Studio and the Director of Continuing Education at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Nancy Bea Miller is a painter, photographer, and author. She currently teaches art at Montgomery County Community College and the Main Line Art Center.

Susan White lives in Philadelphia and currently teaches Non-Toxic Printmaking Methods in the Book Arts/Printmaking Department at The University of the Arts and in the Visual Studies Department at Drexel University where she teaches
Space/Time and Printmaking. Susan White has also served as the Assistant Director of The Print Center; a non-profit arts organization which focuses on printmaking and photography.

Wednesday, July 15, 6-8 p.m.
Hamilton Auditorium
PAFA The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Bridgette Mayer Gallery benefit for Ballet X

My Photograph "Danger Dancer" (seen below) is in this benefit exhibition at Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia, which opens tonight September 5th, reception 5-8 pm. All are welcome!

BALLET X

September 5 - October 4, 2014

Gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m 

For pricing, images or additional exhibition information:  

t: 215 413 8893 e: bmayer@bridgettemayergallery.com

website: http://www.bridgettemayergallery.com

Reception: Friday 9/5/2014  5-8 pm   

City Hall Show!

I'm happy to announce I am included in Without the Wall, a group show curated by Treacy Ziegler. This show will be on display on the second floor of Philadelphia City Hall, right outside the Mayor's offices. The opening is Wednesday June 25, 5-7 pm. Can you guess which piece is mine in this photo? :-)

Ziegler invited a number of  professional artists to create artwork which she then paired with artwork made by her students who are inmates in a New York prison. “Ziegler’s curatorial play further blurs the line between professional and self-taught art,” says Helen Haynes, the City’s new Chief Cultural Officer. “But what she’s also doing in her comparisons, whether it’s her intention or not, is to allow us to recognize through the prism of art - within the darkest of settings such as a prison - there can be an uplifting display of human potential.” You can read more about the show by clicking here.

Without the Wall

June 25-August 22, 2014

Opening Reception: June 25 5-7 pm

Second floor, NE corner

Philadelphia City Hall

1401 John F Kennedy Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 686-1776

PAFA's 113th Annual Student Exhibition

On May 9th I received my MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. As part of my graduate requirements I had to write a thesis and also hang a 21 foot long wall in the museum with a mini show or sampling of my current work. That display of work is part of this show:

113th Annual Student Exhibition

May 9 - June 1, 2014

Preview Party: May 8, 4 - 8:30 p.m.

Public Opening: May 9, 5 - 8 p.m.

The Annual Student Exhibition (ASE) has been a tradition for over a century and is the culminating event in PAFA’s artistic calendar. Each spring the graduating students of the Certificate, BFA and Master's programs mount an exhibition that fills the Museum exhibition galleries in the Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building. Over 11,000 visitors see more than a thousand works in all media. Sales at last year’s ASE grossed over $270,000. Graduating students compete for dozens of distinguished prizes and awards, including the illustrious Cresson Traveling Fellowship and the Caldwell Purchase Prize, in which a work by a graduating student is selected for purchase by the Museum and inclusion in PAFA’s permanent collection.

Click here to view an image gallery featuring a selection of works by students participating in this year’s exhibition.

Click here to view a sampling of my particular work in this exhibition.

On opening night we had to stand by our "walls" ready to discuss our work and greet patrons. Many friends and family members came by to show support. To view my informal photo album from that night click here.

PAFA, Broad and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia, PA, USA

The show is up through June 1, 2014. For museum hours and directions click here.

Rosenfeld Gallery Show

I will have work in this exhibition: ART, ALIBI, AND AN ANONYMOUS WE
Curated by Treacy Ziegler

March 9-30, 2014, Opening Reception, March 9 12 to 5:30.p.m.
Talk: March 13, Thursday, 5:30p.m.
Rosenfeld Gallery, 113 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19106

This exhibition is the work of approximately 50 artists. Half of the participating artists exhibit their art in the free world. The other half of the exhibition’s participants consists of artists living in prisons; most who live in solitary confinement or on death row. If these artists get the opportunity to exhibit their work it is within the confines of “prisoner art.”

Each artist was asked to create a work of art within a 6” circle. Space restrictions of the 6” circle become the theme of the work. The presentation of all work is anonymous asking the viewer if this art or any art can be experienced without the story of the artist.

In the case of prison art, the viewer most often sees the art of the prisoner through the lens of rehabilitation instead of the lens of art.

Ultimately, art asks that the viewer forget the artist in order to experience the art as an aesthetic experience. Can this happen with prison art?

For more information on the exhibition visit An Open Window Project.
www.anopenwindowproject.org

Two new magazine articles..part 2

I have two articles in the current issue of Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine! By chance, they are running back to back. The first is an exhibition preview which you can find in the previous post, and the second is a comprehensive guide to Philadelphia as an art destination.  Philadelphia: Art Mecca of the Mid-Atlantic Pages 103-107, Fine Art Connoisseur, October 2013.

Philadelphia is the U.S.A's eighth largest city and it is also well-known for its vibrant art scene, so this was a huge undertaking, but it was also a lot of fun doing the research. Many thanks to everyone who responded to my public and private cries for help requests for suggestions! I could not have done it without you. Many people responded to my Facebook queries and emails asking for information, and I am grateful to everyone. In particular I want to thank Margaret Hughes, Cara Schneider, Martha Kent Martin and Dr. Kevin Richards whose timely suggestions were immensely helpful.

NOTE: People's screen sizes and browser capabilities vary, so to read the pages it may be necessary to drag them to your desktop and then open them in Photoshop or Preview. Of course, the best way to read the article and see the full glory of the six spectacular color reproductions is to buy a copy of the magazine!

The Last Picture Show

In front of my three paintings in this last Artists' House exhibition, July 2013

This month brings the final exhibition at Artists' House Gallery. The directors, Lorraine and Marv Riesenbach are retiring after twenty-two wonderful and successful years. I have been with this fine gallery since it began, a stroke of luck for which I am immensely grateful.  How did it come about? It was my good fortune to meet Lorraine when we were both studying in the certificate program at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Lorraine is one of the most wonderful people anyone could ever happen to meet, and we became good friends. When I got married a few months after graduation Lorraine supported me through the ceremony as one of my bridesmaids. Within the year,  she and Marv started Artists' House Gallery and I was honored to be part of the original Artists' House gang.  I know how lucky I was, and I still feel honored today...nobody could ask for a better gallery than Artists' House or a better friend than Lorraine Riesenbach. Thank you Artists' House folks, Lorraine, Marv, Leigh and Rita, a million times over for all that this wonderful gallery has done for me personally and also, more importantly, for the arts community at large! ~♡♡♡~

RETIREMENT EXHIBIT---ARTISTS' HOUSE GALLERY
July 5 to August 25
Reception: July 7, 1-4 pm.

Artists' House57 North Second Street  Philadelphia, PA 19106  (215) 923-8440    Wed - Sun 12-5 PM or by appointment
http://www.artistshouse.com/ 

My Latest Article: Susan Hagen

My latest article for Fine Art Connoisseur magazine just came out! It's a four page spread on Philadelphia wood carver Susan Hagen.  Click on the individual photos, then drag to your desktop to bring them up to readable size (or just go out and buy the issue!) 

 

I have been following Susan's career with great interest ever since we met about a dozen years ago. We had both been selected as participants in a program generously sponsored by the Main Line Art Center to assist local emerging artists in their career trajectory by connecting them with a nationally-known art critic, and I guess, also each other. It was an intriguing concept.  It was a selective program and I was honored to be chosen, and did very much enjoy talking at length with the art critic, Gerrit Henry, but unfortunately he died unexpectedly about six months after this endeavor, which was extremely sad and also pretty much stymied what was probably one of the art center's main goals for the project. But it was indeed beneficial to meet a bunch of other artists at a similar stage in their careers and see their work.  Susan's aesthetic spoke to me very strongly, so it's been a real pleasure to have this opportunity to interview her and examine her work more in depth.

Susan's show at The Center for Art in Wood  entitled "Social Studies" runs through July 20. Go take a look!

YOW Sunday Reception Invitation!

CLICK TO ENLARGE! 

YEAR OF THE WOMAN exhibit

I'm honored to be included in a group of twenty artists in the Year of the Woman exhibit opening tonight at Artists' House Gallery in Philadelphia. I have three new pieces in the show:

Painting Girl 

Young Painter

Hijab Me

 ...and also a piece from a few years back borrowed back for the show from the collectors who bought it (that's a first for me!)

Hazel and Katie

YEAR OF THE WOMAN
paintings and sculpture of women by women

April 3 to 28, 2013 

First Friday: April 5, 5 to 8:30 PM

Sunday Reception: April 7, 1 to 4 PM

Artists' House Gallery  

57 N. Second Street  

Philadelphia, PA 19106

(215) 923-8440 

Email: artistshouse@aol.com

Gallery hours: 

Wednesday to Sunday 12:00 Noon to 5:00 PM, 

or by appointment.

www.artistshouse.com

Click here to read a great review of the Year of the Woman show in Fine Art Today!

Still Life Invitational

My painting, "Italian Roast", is on display with three other of my pieces in the Invitational Still-Life exhibition at Artists' House Gallery in Philadelphia, PA. The opening was Friday night, and artist's reception is today, come on down if you can! ;-) Live music, coffee and snacks at the Sunday reception (that's the one I will be at!)

For more info go to the Artists' House website: http://www.artistshouse.com

Artists' House57 North Second Street  Philadelphia, PA 19106  (215) 923-8440   Wed - Sun 12-5 PM or by appointment 

upcoming show

www.artistshouse.com

Celebration of Music

Small African Drum, o/c, 12 x 9 inches

This piece of mine and the work of many friends and colleagues can be seen in a wonderful group exhibit opening this weekend:
Celebration of Music
March 30-May 1, 2011

Artists House Gallery

57 N. 2nd Street
Philadelphia, PA USA  19096

Receptions:

First Friday, April 1, 5-8:30pm

and

Sunday, April 3, 1-4pm

Click Here for more information

Small Works 2010

Tangerine Rose, oil on linen on board, 7 x 5 inches, 2010

I am in a small works show that opens today at Artists' House Gallery in Old City Philadelphia.  I have several small pieces in this show that includes many of Philadelphia's finest representational artists like Renee Foulks, Daniel Miller, Carolyn Pyfrom and Peter van Dyck. Both of Artists' House receptions are always wonderful, but I prefer the Sunday one (live classical guitar, coffee and cake) so that's the one I will be attending: if you are planning to come then be sure and let me know!

Small Works 2010
December 3 to December 24, 2010

Receptions:

First Friday December 3,  5 - 8:30pm
and
Sunday, December 5,  1 - 4pm

Artists' House 

57 North Second Street  

Philadelphia, PA 19106  (215) 923-8440    

Wed - Sun 12-5 PM or by appointment

Philly Photo Day exhibition

Nancy Bea Miller, Sarah Barr, Lisa Mintzer at the

Philly Photo Day Exhibition
November 11 - 21, 2010
Philadelphia Photo Art Center
Grey Area, Crane Arts Building
1400 N. American Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215.232.5678
267.324.3268 (fax)
info@philaphotoarts.org

I do a lot of photography in addition to painting. I don't consider myself a professional, even though I have had several photographs bought for book-covers, magazines and websites, and I am occasionally commissioned to take product shots, art shots and head shots. But I still think of it more as a hobby. I don't really know what I am doing, technically. Photography simply satisfies my unflagging impulse for observation and appreciation of this world and self-expression, and in a quick-n-easy way too! I can't be painting 24/7 but I do have a camera to hand at all moments. You never know when something will reach out and grab your heart. When that happens I reach out and grab my camera. As Baudelaire put it:
To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion)

This is the first time I've exhibited my photography in a gallery setting. On October 28, Philly Photo Day, photographers took their best shot within the Philadelphia city limits and sent it in to the Philadelphia Photo Art Center. The work was catalogued, compiled and printed out on huge banners and hung.


"Leaf Blow on Clearfield Street" (click image to enlarge.) On Philly Photo Day I happened to be driving through the East Falls section of the city when a sudden gust of wind whipped the leaves into a hail of gold. I checked behind me, saw there was nobody coming up and quickly shot the scene. Talk about driving while distracted (just kidding, I of course, stopped the car while shooting.) Steering wheels make good tripods! Rotopods? :-) Prints can be ordered through the PPAC: $10 for a 5 x 7, $20 for an 8.5 x 11. If you're interested in purchasing a copy of "Leaf Blow" contact the PPAC and tell them you want image number 168.

Philly Photo Day Exhibition
November 11 - 21
Philadelphia Photo Art Center
Grey Area, Crane Arts Building
1400 N. American Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215.232.5678
267.324.3268 (fax)
info@philaphotoarts.org


It is truly an amazingly interesting show, giving a wildly varied portrait of a single day. It should interest Philadelphia historians and sociologists as well as artists and anyone who just loves Philadelphia!