Raquel Miller, "Spring flowers fighting through the heavy dirt"
Acrylic ink, 7” x 5”, 2022.
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BIO
Born and adopted from Cuenca, Ecuador, Raquel is an emerging artist from Biddeford, Maine. She is focused on using her art as a mode of expression and developing a visual language of her own. From painting to drawing, her work is focused on the confrontations and expressions of identity, experiences, and emotions. She received a BA in English with minors in Studio Art and Spanish from the University of Southern Maine in 2017. She was the recipient of a 2022 BIPOC Fellowship at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Her work has been displayed throughout Southern Maine at the Harlow, the Buoy Gallery, New System Exhibitions, and Engine.
STATEMENT
I am longing to communicate through my work and longing for my work to communicate with me. I want to unearth the unexpressed, relive memories, and explore dreams–piecing together experience and my own identity. By using water based media like acrylics, watercolor, inks, and gouache I am able to explore fluidity through intuitive mark making as I create images that allude to the act of dreaming and remembering. Through this process I am able to guide myself towards a point of articulation as images, themes, and marks begin to create a visual language of my own. I am interested in the images and marks that emerge again and again, deciphering their meaning and tendencies of behavior, becoming familiar with them until they are no longer something to fear, but something that provides comfort and healing.
Acrylic ink, 7” x 5”, 2022.
SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED. PLEASE CONTACT INFO@COLLARWORKS.ORG FOR A SHIPPING ESTIMATE.
BIO
Born and adopted from Cuenca, Ecuador, Raquel is an emerging artist from Biddeford, Maine. She is focused on using her art as a mode of expression and developing a visual language of her own. From painting to drawing, her work is focused on the confrontations and expressions of identity, experiences, and emotions. She received a BA in English with minors in Studio Art and Spanish from the University of Southern Maine in 2017. She was the recipient of a 2022 BIPOC Fellowship at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Her work has been displayed throughout Southern Maine at the Harlow, the Buoy Gallery, New System Exhibitions, and Engine.
STATEMENT
I am longing to communicate through my work and longing for my work to communicate with me. I want to unearth the unexpressed, relive memories, and explore dreams–piecing together experience and my own identity. By using water based media like acrylics, watercolor, inks, and gouache I am able to explore fluidity through intuitive mark making as I create images that allude to the act of dreaming and remembering. Through this process I am able to guide myself towards a point of articulation as images, themes, and marks begin to create a visual language of my own. I am interested in the images and marks that emerge again and again, deciphering their meaning and tendencies of behavior, becoming familiar with them until they are no longer something to fear, but something that provides comfort and healing.
Acrylic ink, 7” x 5”, 2022.
SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED. PLEASE CONTACT INFO@COLLARWORKS.ORG FOR A SHIPPING ESTIMATE.
BIO
Born and adopted from Cuenca, Ecuador, Raquel is an emerging artist from Biddeford, Maine. She is focused on using her art as a mode of expression and developing a visual language of her own. From painting to drawing, her work is focused on the confrontations and expressions of identity, experiences, and emotions. She received a BA in English with minors in Studio Art and Spanish from the University of Southern Maine in 2017. She was the recipient of a 2022 BIPOC Fellowship at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Her work has been displayed throughout Southern Maine at the Harlow, the Buoy Gallery, New System Exhibitions, and Engine.
STATEMENT
I am longing to communicate through my work and longing for my work to communicate with me. I want to unearth the unexpressed, relive memories, and explore dreams–piecing together experience and my own identity. By using water based media like acrylics, watercolor, inks, and gouache I am able to explore fluidity through intuitive mark making as I create images that allude to the act of dreaming and remembering. Through this process I am able to guide myself towards a point of articulation as images, themes, and marks begin to create a visual language of my own. I am interested in the images and marks that emerge again and again, deciphering their meaning and tendencies of behavior, becoming familiar with them until they are no longer something to fear, but something that provides comfort and healing.