Eye to Eye
by Alex Castro
Katie Miller
Baby Triptych
2009
Oil on linen on panel
35 11/16 x 53 inches
http://artistkatiemiller.com/
"I like the feeling of an unknown drama," says Katie Miller, an artist currently living and studying in Baltimore. Certainly Miller's three portraits, all of the same newborn, challenge us to establish the drama behind them, for there is no implied narrative. If we are to make sense of them, we must do so from our own observations, our own experiences and imagination.
Awkward, perhaps disturbing to look at, the subject of these exquisitely rendered paintings seems to mirror our own often perplexed attitude toward life itself. What thoughts does he have? Does he yet have thoughts? As the artist states, "There is an otherworldly quality to the neonate, as if he is not yet one of us."
—Alex Castro
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