October 9, 2010 – January 30, 2010 Exhibition – Tucson Museum of Art
Judy Miller: Imaginary Dioramas
Opening: October 29, 2010
Tucson Museum of Art
140 North Main Ave.
Tucson, AZ 85701
520-624-2333
April 15, 2010 Exhibition – Review by Nick Malewski in The Kansas City Star
Quotes from Nick Malewski's review:
"The movies never existed and the settings are improbably, but the images are powerful."
"More than just proferring famous faces, these photos suggest the entertainment industry's manipulation of perception."
March 5th – April 24th, 2010 Exhibition – Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art
Imaginary Dioramas
2004 Baltimore Avenue
Kansas City, MO 64108 • 816-221-2626
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commentary by Ronn Spencer:
It is a rare occurrence when an artist unifies diverse and seemingly contradictory images with any degree of elegance or plausibility. When it happens, it brings to mind Lautreamont's oft-quoted line, "as beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella."
That poetic circumstance, as desirable and beguiling as it may be, only succeeds in a skilled artist's hands. Typically, it is a less appealing encounter--a messy collision of conflicting forms and ideas that rarely congeals into an understandable or persuasive whole.
Judy Miller's work defies that pitfall. Each of the thoughtfully-chosen elements in her photographic works are engaged in a rich and provocative dialogue with every other. Miller's vision is so precise, her craft so unerring, the viewer is easily beckoned into another reality.
In a Miller photo-composite there is the troubling notion that something is terribly amiss but, at the same time, utterly believable; that you are gazing through the portal of something familiar yet wholly unexpected--a phantasmagoric otherness torn from the pages of Through the Looking Glass. continue reading
April 2009 Cover, THE Magazine and Exhibit Review by Alex Ross:
Quotes from Alex Ross's review:
"...the artist develops uncanny juxtapositions that defamiliarize and dehumanize celebrity figures."
"...wholly original expressions of absurdist glee."
June – September 2009, Preview Magazine Cover – Tucson Museum of Art
Judy Miller's Outtake #14, Lucy 2 was selected to be exhibited in the Arizona Biennial by Tim Rogers, Chief Curator of New Mexico Museum of Art.
Arizona Daily Star, August 2, 2009, article titled Arizona Art Contrasts, by Rosalie Robles Crowe includes Judy as one of the 12 Arizona artists to keep your eyes on.