Article - "We Speak"

Just out: my article in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine on the "We Speak" show currently at the Woodmere Art Museum. Take a look if you can get hold of one. The reproductions are so beautiful. And go see this show if you're in the Philadelphia area. It's truly amazing, humbling, and inspiring!

We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s

Woodmere Art Museum

September 26, 2015 - January 24, 2016

Magazine feature

My painting Painting Girl (oil on canvas, 36 x 24", 2013) is featured (detail) in the new issue of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine (April 2015), page 122.

You can see the full size version of the painting on my website: http://www.nancybeamiller.com/recentpaintings/ctdnazg6aw68ntjqcjpp4vfulvhpl9

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!

Two new magazine articles..part 1

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 of a show that's about to open soon, Women Painting Women: (R)evolution.   Pages 98-102, Fine Art Connoisseur, October 2013.

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 review and see the full glory of the twelve glorious color reproductions is to buy a copy of the magazine! I also suggest heading to Principle Gallery to see the show, which looks pretty amazing! Here's the information:

WPW: (R)evolution

September 20^th- October 18^th, 2013

Opening Reception: 6:30 pm- 9pm, September 20th, 2013

Principle Gallery

208 King Street

Alexandria, VA 22314

(730)739-9326 

www.principlegallery.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!

Article in Fine Art Connoisseur

December 2012 (pages 55-59)

I was privileged to speak with Linda Lee Alter a few months back about her incredible collection of art by women, which she recently gifted to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.  PAFA is celebrating this enormous and important donation with an exhibition (opening tonight!) which they call The Female Gaze: women artists making their world. I was thrilled that my editor at Fine Art Connoisseur allowed me to write on this topic which is so dear to my heart and even gave the piece what looks to me something like ☆star billing☆ in the magazine. Five pages, right in the middle! Aaah. Of course, Ms. Alter's genius was the spirit behind it, and the art speaks for itself, but here's what I wrote:

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Many thanks also to Robert Cozzolino, the senior curator at PAFA, for sharing his insights with me!

The Female Gaze:
Women Artists Making Their World

November 17, 2012 - April 7, 2013

PAFA

Hamilton Building

128 N. Broad Street

Philadelphia, PA 19102
215-972-7600

Alumni Spotlight interview

I am honored to be the subject of a really in-depth interview in the current issue of Preview Magazine, the publication of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. I was asked because of my position as the President of the PAFA Alumni Association Council. In this role I am relishing the challenge to get things done for my fellow alumni and am lucky to have the camaraderie, energy and mutual assistance of a wonderful council of PAFA alums and the strong support of many superb PAFA administrators and staff.

Preview Magazine, Fall 2012
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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New Magazine piece

Fine Art Connoisseur, p. 92, October 2012

Not long ago I interviewed David Campbell Wilson for Fine Art Connoisseur magazine. Very pleased with how the piece came out, and how it looks. I just got my writer's copies of the magazine in the mail a few days ago, and it should be hitting the stands about now too.  David is an intriguing painter whose first one person show on the east coast is coming up next month at Rodger LaPelle Galleries.

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Latest Magazine Article

My friend Eliza Auth has a lovely exhibit on right now at the Rosenfeld Gallery in Old City Philadelphia. By happy planning and a little luck an article I wrote about her work is now out in the current issue (November/December) of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine. I urge you to go see the show (and buy the magazine..tee hee!) Reprinted below with permission (click to enlarge:)

My Latest Article!

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I am two days away from deadline on my next article and suddenly realized I never mentioned my previous piece which came out a couple of months ago! I interviewed the painter Sarah Lamb for a piece which came out in the July/August issue of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine. I have long admired her work and had her in my far sights, and then the opportunity arose and I grabbed it! Lucky me, Sarah was a joy to interview. She currently has an exhibition at Connecticut's New Britain Museum of Contemporary Art and I am looking forward to her show at Spanierman Gallery which opens in November.

Outdoor Painter article!

My friend Alex Tyng and I have reciprocal portraits in the Painters Painting section of Outdoor Painter! Outdoor Painter is the online version of Plein Air magazine. Both the paintings in the article (written by Steve Doherty) were done on the same trip, one year ago when Alex and I went on a "business trip" to Maine. Click each image to enlarge and read.

What a fun and fruitful trip that was! For a time at least, you can read the piece online by clicking here.

Photos

I've been getting more and more photo work and exposure. My photograph of neighbor Hiroshi Iizuka's viola workshop is in the current issue of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music newsletter Upbeat:

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My photograph of friend Alexandra Tyng appears in the current issue of Artists and Poets magazine, in a one page feature about Alex's work:

Click HERE to read the entire piece. Congratulations to Hiroshi and Alex, and I am delighted my photos were able to be useful.

A new magazine article

I was very consumed with this writing project a short while ago. I'd gotten the idea to poll artists on what their favorite art books were, and what an enormous outpouring of ideas I received! I ended up limiting the field to thirty people, and even then, it was a huge effort to be brief despite the fact that my editor gave me four pages! This turned out to be a topic that really got people thinking. The piece is just out, in the most current issue of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine, April 2011. Thanks to all the artists who participated! If you're interested in reading the piece, here it is (click on images to enlarge:)

Main Line Today magazine

Amber Dreaming, oil on canvas, 28 x 20, 2009

Main Line Today magazine ran an article in their October issue on the Philadelphia Sketch Club, an organization I had the honor of joining recently. The online version, which includes several of my images, can be seen here.

Essay in Fine Art Connoisseur

My essay on contemporary Philadelphia artist John Moore has been published in the current issue of Fine Art Connoisseur, March-April, 2010.
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Lilipoh magazine article

An article I wrote about Plein Air at Beaver Farm has been printed in the current issue of Lilipoh magazine. Issue 58, Vol.15, Winter 2010. Heaven in a Muddy Farmyard pages 42-44. Click images to enlarge:

PABF in American Artist Magazine

Wow!
Many thanks to Steve Doherty and the other folks at American Artist magazine for giving this wonderful shout-out to Plein Air at Beaver Farm! (As always, click pix to enlarge .)



American Artist
November 2009
page 8
Photo credits: Carol Goetz, Garth Herrick and Nancy Bea Miller

Curious

Magazine coverage
of Plein Air at Beaver Farm has kicked off with a local freebie but goodie,
Curious Parents! Thank you Kelly Wolfgang for a nice article.
We've already gotten many web mentions, including Fallon & Rosoff's Art Blog, American Artist Magazine's blog (and blog highlights!), The Autism Society of America's website and more. More to come, as well, I think.