Allison Miller: An Interview by Mary-Kay Lombino, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

In this interview, artist Allison Miller (American, b. 1974) talks with Mary-Kay Lombino, Deputy Director and the Emily Hargroves Fisher '57 and Richard B. Fisher Curator at the Loeb. They discuss her painting "Snare" (a work from the Loeb's permanent collection), some of the artists and works from which she draws inspiration, her artistic process, and opposing philosophical views on abstract expressionism—as well as the potential for a painting to embody multiple contradictory perspectives simultaneously.

Allison Miller earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1996 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2001. Miller has held multiple solo exhibitions at galleries across the United States, including at ACME.; The Pit in Los Angeles; and Susan Inglett Gallery, New York. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including the first Los Angeles biennial, Made in L.A. 2012, organized by the Hammer Museum; Mülheim/Ruhr and the 1970's, curated by Alice Könitz in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany; and NOW-ISM: Abstraction Today, organized by The Pizzuti Collection in Columbus, Ohio. Several public collections currently hold Miller's work, including the Orange County Museum of Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Pizzuti Collection, The West Collection, and The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. Allison teaches in the MFA Fine Arts program at Otis College of Art and Design. For her teaching, Miller has received a Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship, among other accolades. Her work has been featured in publications such as Artforum, Frieze, the Los Angeles Times, and The Brooklyn Rail.