About
My name is Daniel Lloyd-Miller. I am a painter who works primarily in Oils. I grew up in New England and studied art in Boston, MA. I currently live in Chicago, IL where I’m working on attaining my masters in Fine Arts from SAIC.
I work intuitively; I find joy in finessing a panel and cajoling a painting out of it. I like the unending challenge of uncovering a painting; conjuring an image from oil and pigment on a surface. Given infinite options, I narrow my scope for precision and begin. I learned my methodologies from Gloucester School adherents and collegiate inquiry. Formal aesthetics and pleinair is the framework through which I am able to express life.
I physically explore the world, bringing the viewer with me. In the tradition of modern representational painters, concerned with light, I paint from observation. I paint places to harmonize with them, to familiarize myself and become more than a stranger to them. This is an introductory process, like making a friend. As people change over time, so too do places and as time continues on, I am reintroduced all over again.
I’ve painted cities and nature, though I’m far more sympathetic to the latter than the former. Many of the recent paintings I've produced are about the anxieties of modern urban development. There is tension between the unending construction against the backdrop realities of global climate change. Such colossal problems lead me to believe that the solutions are both smaller and more intimate. More than catharsis, embracing my surroundings is essential to my work.
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Curriculum Vitae
Education:
2022- : Graduate candidate at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Drawing, with the benevolent assistance of the Jeffrey Geesa Memorial Scholarship Award.
2015: Massachusetts College of Art and Design, BFA Painting, BFA History of Art
2013: Paint making workshop, Academy of Realist Art, Boston
Exhibitions:
2022: Bryan Memorial Gallery — Land & Light & Water & Air
2022: Alfred Art Studio at the West, Alfred — Water and Ways (solo exhibition)
2021: The Firefly Artists, Northport— Works on Paper
2020: St. Pete Figure Drawing — Figure Book 2020
2020: I Like Your Work Podcast — Congruence
2020: Morean Center for Clay — In the Garden
2020: St. Pete Figure Drawing — Figure Book 2020
2020: Mize Gallery — Glitch
2019: 2019 Exquisite Corpse Games (link)
2019: Bar@548, St. Petersburg — Our Planet
2019: Morean Arts Center, St. Petersburg — Scenes of Transformation
2019: Brick Street Clay, St Petersburg — Exit Show
2018: Dobrow-Freeman Gallery, St. Petersburg — The Neighborhood
2016: Midway Gallery, Boston — You Think It’s ____, But It’s Really ____.
2015: R.E.S Gallery, Brookline — Perception's Edge
2015: Boston City Hall, Boston — Boston City Hall Student Exhibition
2015: Student Life Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston — ^ to Interpretation
2015: Student Life Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston — Painting Senior Show
2015: Boston Art and Framing, Boston — DOWNSTAIRS: Watch Your Step!
2015: President’s Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston — All School Show
2015: Melk Gallery, Xenogogue, Boston — {…} (Insert Title)
2014: The Middle East Cambridge, Massachusetts — Travelogue
2014: North Crackatorium Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston — Shades of Consciousness
2014 Boston City Hall, Boston — Boston City Hall Student Exhibition
2014: Student Life Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston — Call for Art – Architecture
2013: Wilder Center, Wilder, Vermont — 4th Annual h.ART Gallery
Professional Work Experience:
2022-2024: Teaching Assistant for the following professors: Mary Lou Zelazny, Dan Gustin, Judith Geichman, and Conor Stetchschulte at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
2022: Taught Capturing the Great Outdoors: Plein-Air Painting Workshop at Sugar Maples Center for the Arts
2020: Interview on Ari Forrester’s Hotline
2015-2018: Maintained a studio space with multiple guest artists including:
2015-2018: Assistant Director at The Guild of Boston Artists
2016-2018: General Administrator and Web Manager for The Boston Hassle, part of Brain-Arts Organization
2015: Studio intern for artist James Leonard, Boston Center for the Arts, Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies
News and Writeups
2021- Christopher Shea, Dartmouth Week (PDF) ”Artists take their talents outdoors for third annual Wet Paint Padanaram contest “, https://dartmouth.theweektoday.com/article/artists-take-their-talents-outdoors-third-annual-wet-paint-padanaram-contest/54962