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Scott Miller (artist)

Scott Miller (24 December 1955 - 15 May 2008) Miller was a fine artist born in Cleveleland, Ohio. Miller earned two BFA's having studied initially at the now-defunct Cooper School of Art in Cleveland before graduating in 1983 from the Cleveland Institute of art as a photography and videography major.

Scott Miller was born into a nuclear family and raised in the Valley Forge suburb of Cleveland, Ohio in the 1950's. His mother was a homemaker while his father aided America's space race working for NASA. Scott began to paint at the young age of 5 and by 7 years of age his paintings showed skillful use of perspective and modelling. When he was 8 years old he scrawled an expletive on a school wall making sure to sign his full name much to the shock of his parents and instructors. Scott's initial childhood influences were early monster films. Portrayals of misunderstood monsters resonated with him and this feeling of outsider-ness would act as a driving force.

In his paintings, Miller focused initially on dreamy agglomerations of cartoon-like creatures, animals, plants and figures, including men who sported a crewcut like the artist's own. More recently, Miller painted images of strange and eerie bio-morphic organisms.

Miller excelled at quick and fluent brushwork, enjoyed rich and often lurid colors and had a way of creating imagery that suggested a trompe l'oeil realism. Many of his paintings incorporate pocked surfaces, as if they were produced through scarring. These signature "divets" are similar to the imperfections found in Japanese earthenware and are suggestive of our own imperfect nature(s).

Miller's paintings were reviewed by the prestigious national magazine Art in America and his shows were covered by Northern Ohio Live, The Plain Dealer and other regional publications. He also contributed illustrations to Playboy magazine.

In recent years, Miller split his time between the Los Angeles area, where he had a house in Long Beach, and Cleveland, where he lived and worked in a storefront building remodeled with a glass brick facade and the name "OBOE" emblazoned across the top, a word he reportedly chose because he liked the sound.

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