2001, hand-painted ceramic, signed and dated at shoulder M. Miller 2001.

16 x 13 x 7 in.

Collection of a Lady, Youngsville, North Carolina

Marlene Miller is a figurative ceramic artist whose work explores the human experience and themes fueled by the murky relationship between power and vulnerability, the comic and tragic, wonder and horror, the holy and corrupt. She received her B.F.A. in ceramics and painting from Bradley University in 1976, and was awarded a two-year graduate fellowship in ceramics at Syracuse University, earning her M.F.A. in 1978.

As Professor of Art, Miller taught at Illinois Central College from 1978 to 2000. She won an Illinois Art Council Individual Artist Fellowship in 2002 for her ceramic sculpture and wall relief. Miller has exhibited nationally for over 30 years, with recent solo exhibitions at the following venues: Abel Contemporary, formerly Artisan Gallery in Paoli, Wisconsin in 2017, 2012 and 2008; Exhibit A in Peoria Heights, Illinois in 2016; The Contemporary Art Center in Peoria, Illinois in 2010; Art @830 in Key West, Florida in 2009; Bradley University in Peoria in 2007; and The Figge Museum in Davenport, Iowa in 2007.

Detached cigarette (but present with Lot), some chipping at base.