'Queens': Vinetta Miller

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.