'Queens': Vinetta Miller

Beauty Gallery

02.17.2024–03.29.2024February 17th – March 29th, 2024

Acrylic on paper artwork featuring an abstract interpretation of a dark-skinned woman wearing a green and blue dress, surrounded by red and black hues. — Vinetta Miller, The Woman that's Got all Different Kinds of Dresses On, 2023

A painted portrait of a light skinned figure in a floral print dress surrounded by brown, black and orange brushwork. — Vinetta Miller, Woman with a Flower Dress On, 2019

An acrylic on canvas painting of a woman sitting in a chair wearing green and blue. She is surrounded by textural light green, blue, and white brushwork. — Vinetta Miller, The Woman who is Sitting Down on the Chair, 2016

A vivid, textural painted portrait of a light skinned woman with a blue dress surrounded by black and blue brush work. — Vinetta Miller, Woman a Model, 2018

An acrylic on canvas painting of a light skinned, long-haired figure wearing black and white and surrounded by brown, black, and white brushwork. — Vinetta Miller, Young Boy, 2021

A colorful, abstract painting with two figures surrounded by brushwork and glitter paint. — Vinetta Miller, The Woman in a Tight Dress and the Woman in the Sparkly Dress, 2018

An abstract painting of what resembles a white skinned figure surrounded by textural black and brown brushwork with hand painted red text that reads, "a tragic generation. — Vinetta Miller, A Tragic Generation, 2018

Painting of two light-skinned figures against a deep purple background, so closely positioned they appear conjoined. The figure on the left is wearing a blue outfit and a red tie, while the figure on the right is dressed in yellow. Both figures have straight faces and a sullen expression. — Vinetta Miller, Woman and Man, 2023

Textural, expressive abstract painting featuring a light-skinned, princess-like figure adorned in reds, golds, and blues, set against a turbulent red background. — Vinetta Miller, Queen, 2023

An abstract acrylic monoprint with pale greens, blues, and yellows converging with darker hues. — Vinetta Miller, The Woman Wearing Shoes, 2018

In their own finery, and now in the finery of their painted representation, these queens look levelly out at us, regarding us as we regard them. And because they are so lusciously painted we are so lusciously invited to take a good long look. In mark-making full of wander and expression Miller scoops these figures up from the dust of their epochs, fixes them up with the exciting material excess of her paint, and, now presentable, presents them to us here new with the vestigial shapes of their times and places ghostily about. Queens are tragic, are thoughtful, are quick, careful, fabulous, time-travelers (as is paint itself!), are lofty, physical, tender, curious, sparkling.

Artworks and Images