Patricia Miller (1950, Montgomery. AL, USA) is an artist experienced in a variety of mediums—with a BFA in printmaking (Ohio State), she now works in photography, photomontage, paper collage and sculpture, fabric pieced-work, stoneware and porcelain constructions. Her primary focus is creating photomontage in a digital format using portions of her original images—stills, videos, and gifs—and layering them one over another to create veils of context. The use of transparency is key in overlaying the myriad scrims that depict a hazy, slightly out-of-focus world.  Common themes and motifs that form the nucleus of her work mostly come from the natural world and offer commentary on the collision we face between earth’s vital ecosystems and humanity’s destructive urges. Specific iconography and language repeat themselves throughout her body of work. She often adds familiar faces borrowed from old photo albums inherited from her parents, family portraits, and random snapshots, negatives and slides from childhood. If needed to complete a composition, she will occasionally use a fragment of text, illustration, or photography made available for use in the public domain by a number of well-regarded digital archives. 
 
Her primary tools include three cameras, an iPhone, and multiple editing platforms in Adobe Creative Cloud—predominately Photoshop. She chooses not to employ AI to create or augment her work but finds herself playing an ever more complex game of cat and mouse with AI options as computer and program updates grow inundated.
 
She has exhibited for over three decades, primarily in Colorado, as part of individual and group shows, as well as curated, invitationals, and collaborations—Spark Gallery, Robert Anderson Gallery, Karen White Gallery, Republic Plaza Arts/Brookfield, Curtis Center for the Arts, Pirate Gallery, Zip Gallery, Core Gallery, and currently showing at Edge Gallery. 

Miller currently lives with her husband Matthew and their dog Isla in Denver, CO