INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST

Elizabeth Miller

I am a painter that combines familiar geometric shapes and vivid colors to create patterns that illustrate various theories of visual perception in a captivating sensory experience.

Uniform and repetitive imagery within my paintings and sculptures taps into our innate human ability to look for and recognize patterns. I choose the color palettes of my paintings and murals carefully, juxtaposing them together in a way that causes the shapes they fill to appear to pulse, float, or vibrate. I continue these patterns into 3-dimensional space by rendering the same shapes and colors in glass. Given the ability glass has to refract, reflect, and otherwise distort light, i.e., its surroundings, when looking at and through it the viewer is not only offered a new perspective of this idealized geometry but of every object that can be seen through it. As their eyes bounce from shape to shape this primitive survival instinct is stimulated and the viewer is pulled into the present moment. Consumed by what they are seeing, they are prompted to consider not only what they are looking at but what it means to look at all.