Current and Upcoming Shows

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Nance Miller, ICB stu 325a, Sausalito, CA, 94965, 415-444-6856

Education and Credentials

Bachelor of Arts, Diversified Liberal Studies - California State University
Master of Arts, Special Education - St. Mary's College

CA Multiple Subject Credential

CA Severely Handicapped Credential
CA Single Subject Credential - Fine Arts

IAU, Marchutz School, Aix en Provence, France - Advanced Studies in Fine Arts
Atelier des Arts, Aix en Provence, France - Advanced Drawing and Painting
Studio Escalier, Paris, France - Advanced Drawing

Benefits and Auctions

Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Selected for Live Auction
LymeLight Foundation,  Dart For Art, Palo Alto  
Hair to Stay, San Francisco
http://www.hairtostay.org/about-us/

Aids Foundation Benefit, San Francisco

Residencies

Chateau d'Orquevaux, France 

*recipient of the Denis Diderot Grant*

Past Shows

2024

Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2023

Robert Allen Fine Art, Sausalito, CA

Chateau Orquevaux, Orquevaux, France

2022

Robert Allen Fine Art, Sausalito

Solstice Gallery, Mill Valley, Solo Show

2021

Robert Allen Fine Art, Saus, CA, 2 person show

Winter Open Studios, ICB, Sausalito, CA

Mill Valley Fall Arts Show, Mill Valley, CA

URC, Davis, CA, Permanent Collection

2020

China Basin, San Francisco, CA, Solo Show

Robert Allen Fine Art, Sausalito, CA, 3 person show

2019

Foundry Art Center, Nationally Juried Show, Foundry Art Center, St. Charles, MO

"Ensemble" Group Show, MCF, Novato, CA

Winter Open Studios, ICB, Saus., CA

Solo Show, 4Barrel Coffee, Portola, SF

ARC Gallery "Bridge to Abstraction", SF, CA

Three Person Show, Four Barrel Coffee, San Francisco

Solo Show, Mill Valley Public Library

O'Hanlon Center for the Arts,Bay Area Women's Show Juried by Seager Gray Gallery

Solo Show, Dorfman Thompson, Mill Valley

Marin MOCA Altered Book Show
Jen Tough Gallery, Benicia, "Flora and Fauna"
Marin General Hospital
SNAP, Arc Galleries, SF

2018 
GROUP
Art San Diego,  Jen Tough Gallery, Opus Collective
Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival
Marin MOCA "Color Works" Juror:  Danielle Fox of SLATE Gallery 
               *received "Honorable Mention for "Deep Water Reflections"
Sausalito Fine Arts Festival
O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, "Tell Me a Story",  Juror:  Chester Arnold
Marin General Hospital
Marin Civic Center, main Galleria
Renee Marie Gallery, Benecia, CA "Art of the Book"
Marin MOCA, Novato, CA   "Art of the Book", selected for Live Auction
O’Hanlon Center, Mill Valley, CA  Bay Area Women Artists group show,
            Jurors:  Donna Seager and Suzanne Gray Gallery
 

SOLO

Solstice Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Mill Valley Community Center
Coldwell Residential Banker,Mill Valley
Belvedere Tiburon Library, Tiburon, CA
The Tamalpais Gallery, Greenbrae, CA
Branded Boutique,  Mill Valley, CA
VenturePad, San Rafael, CA
Homestead Valley Community Center. Mill Valley, CA
Fitwise Pilates, Mill Valley, CA

2017 
Marin County Fair, Mill Valley, CA   Award for “Lord Tennyson”
Bel Aire Shopping Center, Greenbrae, CA 
SOLO  At The Top Gallery and Salon, Mill Valley, CA 
SOLO  Equator Coffee, Mill Valley, CA 
SOLO  Depot Café and Bookstore, Mill Valley, CA 
SOLO  Marin Open Studios

2016
SOLO  At The Top Gallery and Salon, Mill Valley, CA 
SOLO  Hairfax Gallery and Salon, Fairfax, CA 
2015
At the Top Gallery and Salon, Mill Valley, CA
2014
The Parlor, Mill Valley, CA
2010 
Cave De Huillle, Aix en Provence, France
Studio Marschutz, Aix en Provence, France

Nance Miller, Sausalito, California I am a Bay Area painter working primarily in oils.  I move the pigments across the canvas with my hands, no brushes, focusing on light and building atmosphere layer by layer.   While a life-long painter and lover of the arts, I first taught elementary school for 35 years and finally went to art school in France as an adult with the belief that it is never too late to follow your dreams. In this series I am exploring light, atmosphere, and the passage of time. Time passes and much changes, yet there is a quality that remains and holds history. I am exploring that ephemeral essence, the light that comes through all living things, that feeling one gets when you look out and discover, "Ah, I am at peace here".  By eliminating many recognizable forms, I seek to take a landscape down to its barest bones and let the viewer's emotions, memories and personal history fill in the scene. My influences are Rothko, Turner, and the Hudson River School of painters.  While these may seem like odd bedfellows, they all  inform my work equally.  It is the power of emotion these artists can evoke in the simplest of forms. The Hudson River School painters understood place, in its most ephemeral and atmospheric sense.  With inspiration from Rothko, I seek a separation of space and color as the backdrop, loving the sometimes gentle, sometimes not so gentle vibration that comes from shifting hues and values within a color space, putting colors in conversation with each other.  From Turner I strive to emulate his strong sense of movement and emotion.  And then there is the horizon line - the place where land/water meets sky, where earth meets the heavens.  As a dear friend of mine said, “It is the place where the world quivers”.  The (scene) contains what is accepted as necessary when it is not yet so; the (other scenes), what is imagined as possible and, a moment later, is possible no longer. – from Invisible Cities by Itlaio Calvino  Nance Miller, Sausalito, California I am a Bay Area painter working primarily in oils.  I move the pigments across the canvas with my hands, no brushes, focusing on light and building atmosphere layer by layer.   Currently I am exploring light, atmosphere, and the passage of time. Time passes and much changes, yet there is a quality that remains and holds history. I am exploring that ephemeral essence, the light that comes through all living things, that feeling one gets when you look out and discover, "Ah, I am at peace here".  By decreasing or even eliminating many recognizable forms, I seek to take a landscape down to its barest bones and let the viewer's emotions, memories and personal history fill in the scene. My influences are Rothko, Turner, and the Hudson River School of painters.  While these may seem like odd bedfellows, they all  inform my work equally.  It is the power of emotion these artists can evoke in the simplest of forms. The Hudson River School painters understood place, in its most ephemeral and atmospheric sense.  With inspiration from Rothko, I seek a separation of space and color as the backdrop, loving the sometimes gentle, sometimes not so gentle vibration that comes from shifting hues and values within a color space, putting colors in conversation with each other.  From Turner I strive to emulate his strong sense of movement and emotion.  And then there is the horizon line - the place where land/water meets sky, where earth meets the heavens.  As a dear friend of mine said, “It is the place where the world quivers”.  The (scene) contains what is accepted as necessary when it is not yet so; the (other scenes), what is imagined as possible and, a moment later, is possible no longer. – from Invisible Cities by Itlaio Calvino  Sense of Place.  It enter’s through your eyes, travels through your veins and into your soul.  And, takes you away.  Light, water, air creating a place to sense peace and calm.  Take a moment fly through the clouds and breath.