Walrus
We are proud to announce our fifth publication with Melissa Miller! The color linocut published this year is titled Walrus. It is the first of a series of linocuts Miller intends to create. Walrus features not only a Walrus but other animals of the Arctic. Created during the time of Covid, Miller places her subjects in isolation, which is not in character with her paintings that explore all manner of interaction between animals.
Miller collaborated with her husband, Bill Kennedy, to crate the icy blue second color of the linocut. Kennedy, a photographer, printed the color with archival pigment onto the printmaking paper, and her linocut block was printed in registration to the color at Flatbed. Richie Peña editioned the block and Alfonso Huerta was Miller’s resource for the development. The block (and image) is 10” x 8” and is printed onto 19.75 by 13 inches Rives BFK French printmaking paper. An edition of 30 was printed and signed by Miller in November.
Miller, who is widely known for her paintings, has her work featured in many public collections, such as the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York; the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; the El Paso Museum of Art, Texas; the Orland Museum of Art, Florida; Sweet Briar College, Virginia; and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Among her many honors, Miller has been the recipient of three individual Artist Fellowships from the National Endowments for the Arts (NEA), as well as awards from the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation, the Dallas Museum of Art, The Art League of Houston, the Dallas Visual Arts Association, and the National Council of Arts Administrators. In addition, she was named “Texas State Artist of the Year” in 2011 by the Texas State Legislature.