Bio

Kelsey Miller is a multi-disciplinary artist born and raised in Antigua, West Indies, and now living in New England. 

In recent years, Miller has participated in artist residencies with the Arctic Circle Residency in the International Territory of Svalbard and Proyecto ‘Ace in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her work has been exhibited in venues in Italy, Argentina, and throughout the United States in solo, juried, and small group shows. Miller is a 2019 recipient of the MacColl Johnson Fellowship from the Rhode Island Foundation. She currently teaches printmaking at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Commonwealth School in Boston, MA.

Artist's Statement

My studio practice is expansive yet rooted in the language of printmaking, building on its inherent qualities of iteration, layering, accumulation and dissemination. I am guided by everyday cycles—the rapid pace of news, the shift in weather patterns and landscapes that once seemed immoveable, the slow build of archives and scientific data—toward an iterative practice of recording, scanning, altering and assembling. 

Right now, we receive news and information at a rate faster than we are able to process and build narratives reflective of our own perceptions, beliefs and experiences. My practice is an archive of my experience, a glimpse at one chapter of an unfolding story that is in constant flux. The ordinarily vapid language of weather forecasting, with its uncertainty and foreboding, transforms into uncanny metaphors for the roiling environment of politics, protest, and opinion.

The storm system will intensify.

A high pressure system will remain in control across the region.

There will be sun in the morning.

The inherently haptic process of transferring ink from matrix to paper signifies a specific time—I am here—that galvanizes presence in our surroundings and a moment of reflection on the past. My work is a call to action, and also a pause, with the intention of offering a moment of reflection and sanctuary for maker and viewer.