About me: Bio / Statement Cathey Miller
I was born in 1963 in the Bay Area of Northern California, and I still love the smell of the ocean, seafood, and sourdough bread.
We moved to Texas when i was in grade school, but I returned to California to attend Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.
Upon graduation in 1985, I moved to New York City where I freelanced as an editorial illustrator. I started wearing black clothes, mirrored sunglasses,
and painting people i saw in the subway, and on the streets. I spent my spare time in museums, galleries, and bookstores .
In 1987, because I couldn't find any decent salsa , I moved to Dallas. I established my own art studio which catered to Interior Designers,
and I later branched out into theatrical backdrops, and scenic painting for television.
The work I do for clients that hire me is completely different than the paintings I make for the sheer love of painting.
I can explain it this way: I am an experienced, professional commercial artist financially supporting a wild eyed poet that is always
spending my well earned money on glitter, fluorescent paint, and giant rolls of canvas to make cockeyed projects that may or may not sell.
If I am on a job, the Girl Scout always shows up on time with the client's dream in mind.
When I am not on a job, the Poet is at at the art supply store supply spending my money, and plotting her next series of paintings.
Since 2001, the subject of my personal artwork has been the mythical planet of Cathedonia, a place I invented and populated with only my
closest friends . My amateur studies in particle physics convinced me that I existed simultaneously in a parallel universe, flying around in a spaceship,
drinking big gulps, and saving the earth from monsters.
My paintings are portrait based explorations into a symbol rich outer space environment. These images are painterly, colorful, and communicate
Cathedonian ideals of truth, beauty, girl power, and heroism in the face of gigantic eagle headed flying intergalactic lobsters.
Currently, I have been placing my alien narrative in a more remote setting: West Texas.
Childhood roadtrips with my grandparents through the American Southwest, vacations in the Joshua Tree National Park with my BFF from art school,
and dusty weekends on a semi abandoned ranch outside Marfa with other artists have led to this latest landing spot for my aliens.
For me, there is an appealing post-apocalyptic quality to these scenes. The heroes I paint are outsiders struggling against empty landscapes,
and night skies filled with ludicrous monsters.
We moved to Texas when i was in grade school, but I returned to California to attend Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.
Upon graduation in 1985, I moved to New York City where I freelanced as an editorial illustrator. I started wearing black clothes, mirrored sunglasses,
and painting people i saw in the subway, and on the streets. I spent my spare time in museums, galleries, and bookstores .
In 1987, because I couldn't find any decent salsa , I moved to Dallas. I established my own art studio which catered to Interior Designers,
and I later branched out into theatrical backdrops, and scenic painting for television.
The work I do for clients that hire me is completely different than the paintings I make for the sheer love of painting.
I can explain it this way: I am an experienced, professional commercial artist financially supporting a wild eyed poet that is always
spending my well earned money on glitter, fluorescent paint, and giant rolls of canvas to make cockeyed projects that may or may not sell.
If I am on a job, the Girl Scout always shows up on time with the client's dream in mind.
When I am not on a job, the Poet is at at the art supply store supply spending my money, and plotting her next series of paintings.
Since 2001, the subject of my personal artwork has been the mythical planet of Cathedonia, a place I invented and populated with only my
closest friends . My amateur studies in particle physics convinced me that I existed simultaneously in a parallel universe, flying around in a spaceship,
drinking big gulps, and saving the earth from monsters.
My paintings are portrait based explorations into a symbol rich outer space environment. These images are painterly, colorful, and communicate
Cathedonian ideals of truth, beauty, girl power, and heroism in the face of gigantic eagle headed flying intergalactic lobsters.
Currently, I have been placing my alien narrative in a more remote setting: West Texas.
Childhood roadtrips with my grandparents through the American Southwest, vacations in the Joshua Tree National Park with my BFF from art school,
and dusty weekends on a semi abandoned ranch outside Marfa with other artists have led to this latest landing spot for my aliens.
For me, there is an appealing post-apocalyptic quality to these scenes. The heroes I paint are outsiders struggling against empty landscapes,
and night skies filled with ludicrous monsters.
