Phyllis Miller Lee
The sketches and ceramic figures are, for me, a form of note-taking and
narrative, a way of commenting on what I see and remembering it in a
certain way.
They are small. With a few exceptions, I prefer to paint small paintings, draw little sketches, and make small figures. Although they are based on drawings or people I see, they become, as I work on them, very real for me. I can imagine what they would express and how they might act. I think that everyone brings to their perception of a figure their own ideas, which is great, and sometimes, surprising.
If I had to choose my favorite period of art it would be the Italian Renaissance—Paolo Uccello, Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca, and in the north, Pieter Brueghel.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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Southern Vermont Arts Center, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2007
Canfield Gallery at Arlington Library, Vermont, 2008
Dorset Library, Vermont, 2005
Dorset Theater,Vermont, 2006
Smith Center, Manchester, Vermont, 1998
Chaffee Arts Center, Rutland, Vermont, 1996
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont, yearly shows
Member of Epoch, Manchester, Vermont (gallery of 18 Artisans), 2009
Gallery One, Saratoga Springs, New York, 2004
Stratton Arts Festival, Stratton, Vermont, 1996, 1997, 1998, Award of Distinction, 1997
Chaffee Arts Center, Rutland, Vermont, traveling show, “Working Drawings of Vermont”, 1997
Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, New York, 1997
Art in the Round Barn, Waitsfield, Vermont, 1997
Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, “Small Works”, 1996
Left Bank Gallery , Bennington, Vermont, 1996
Beside Myself Gallery, Arlington, Vermont, 1996
Elm Street Arts, Manchester, Vermont, member artist, 1994
EDUCATION
- Cornell University, B.F.A., College of Art, Architecture and Planning
Parsons School of Design, NY, fashion illustration courses
Studio of Alfred van Loen, sculptor, Huntington, NY
One-on-One seminar with Robert Reid, Yale professor, New Haven , CT
Critiques with David Miller, Skidmore College
Ceramic courses with Regis Brodie, Skidmore College