Languid cloudscapes from Tanzania, France, and Wellfleet line the dining room. Self-portraits stare back from the living room walls. Canvases are stacked three deep along the hallway. One bedroom has a crowd of portraits viewing visitors with equanimity. I wanted to see if the paintings would bear the weight of that question.
Painting is visual intelligence at work.
Structure in painting is in many ways the most important element, and is often hidden to the first glance. Miller has been making art for as long as she can remember. Although she trained when abstract expressionism was in vogue, she remains a figurative artist whose work has been compared to masters such as Vermeer and Degas. The most recent in an impressive lineup of exhibitions opened last week at New York's respected First Street Gallery. Horses Indoors focuses on the casual workaday world of horse and rider.