Ruane Miller
Contact the artist:
www.ruanemiller.com
ruane@ruanemiller.com
Ruane Miller received MFA degrees from Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester,
NY (Computer Graphics Design) and Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy (Painting/Printmaking)
and a BFA degree from Tyler in Philadelphia.
She has exhibited her work extensively in national and international solo, group,
and juried exhibits. Her work is in numerous public and private national and international
collections including the Print Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art;
Museum of Art; Print Collection, San Francisco; Mercer County, New Jersey, Cultural
Commission Permanent Collection. Her work has been recognized through numerous
awards, grants, and fellowships. She was a recipient of a Residency Fellowship
at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming and has been awarded numerous Faculty Research
Awards from The College of New Jersey.
Ruane is a Professor of Art at The College of New Jersey where she has taught
since 1986. She has served as Chairperson of the Art Department, Coordinator of
Fine Arts and Coordinator of Digital Arts. She developed and implemented the computer
graphics curriculum and facilities for the Art Department and coordinated the
development of a new BFA major in Digital Arts. She has taught on the college
level since 1977 in other teaching positions at UCLA, SUNY Albany, and Lycoming
College in the areas of Digital Media, Painting, Silk Screen Printmaking, Drawing,
Design, and Art History.
Artist Statement
I find the exquisite in nature intriguing and inspiring. My work, in both gouache
paintings and digitally imaged prints, has developed from my ongoing fascination
with and observation of land and sky and the Southwest and West, especially Northern
Arizona and the Four Corners regions. I have spent many many hours hiking and
photographing in those areas ‘taking in’ the skies, the changes in weather and
time of day, the space, the color, and the cultural history. The sense of the
place pervades my work in the studio where I attempt to visually describe the
presence, beauties, and powers of this environment.
My artistic technique is an attempt at the exquisite in execution and aesthetic
whether the specific piece is created electronically or traditionally. I am drawn
to richness and depth of surface texture and pattern; a complexity of color relationships;
contradictory forms and structural inter-relationships; a balance of delicacy
and strength.
The digital prints reflect this context and my ongoing investigation of digital
imaging and archival digital print production. They incorporate digital scans
of my photography of sky and landscapes as well as of my paintings and sketches
of similar subject matter.
The digital prints are printed on an Epson wide-format digital printer on Somerset
mould-made 100% rag paper from Cuthbert Mills in England with Epson archival inks;
I do my own scanning, editing, and printing.
