Cartoonist / photography / assemblage / box art
144 Chestnut Street Willimantic, CT 06226
860 423-1990

Pat Miller is a visual artist who creates cartoons, photographs, assemblage sculpture, and box art.  Her work ranges in tone from meditation to comedy, from elegy to satire.  The “Rudimental Art” of her primitive painted cartoons reveals her wholesome cynicism, unabashed silliness, and firm belief in the curative powers of laughter.  Her landscape and architectural photographs reflect her love of color, composition, and serenity, while her animal portraits convey both a quirky sense of humor and an abiding interest in character.

For her box art, Miller uses a wide range of materials and objects (wood, metal, fabric, polymer clay, acrylics, glass, lights, mirrors, organ pipes, marbles, bells) to build miniature scenes in a variety of containers, such as crates, small boxes, an old camera, and a Victorian bathtub. In pieces that explore subjects ranging from illness and grief to visual puns and politics, she invites the viewer to probe what lies “inside the box”: within our own bodies and minds, our social conventions, or our cultural and political institutions. Her background in literature has led her naturally to explore rhythm, motif, perspective, tone/color, and narrative in her visual work