Cathey Miller
Born in Los Altos, Ca., Cathey Miller grew up in Dallas and is a 1985 graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Upon graduation, she moved to New York City where she freelanced as an editorial illustrator, and hung out at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In 1987, she moved back to Dallas and established her own painting studio doing work for Interior Designers, Advertising Agencies, and Theatrical Scenery shops.
Cathey has been a full time professional artist (illustrator, scenic painter , and muralist) for 30 years, and also enjoys playing soccer, science fiction, and comics.
Artist Statement
Cathey Miller paints fierce women of various colors and persuasions often in an outer space setting battling monsters . Her paintings are portrait based explorations into an outer space world centered around the Planet Cathedonia. These figurative images are painterly, colorful, and communicate Cathedonian ideals of truth, beauty, girl power, and heroism in the face of gigantic eagle headed flying intergalactic lobsters.
Miller’s belief is that space, time, ladies, and Big Gulps are all particles of energy that are best rendered in paint particles. The paintings sparkle with otherworldliness in a very retro tin foil spaceship on a string way. Glitter, metallic paint, fluorescent paint, and bejeweling are all employed to depict imagined feminist utopias.
In 1987, she moved back to Dallas and established her own painting studio doing work for Interior Designers, Advertising Agencies, and Theatrical Scenery shops.
Cathey has been a full time professional artist (illustrator, scenic painter , and muralist) for 30 years, and also enjoys playing soccer, science fiction, and comics.
Artist Statement
Cathey Miller paints fierce women of various colors and persuasions often in an outer space setting battling monsters . Her paintings are portrait based explorations into an outer space world centered around the Planet Cathedonia. These figurative images are painterly, colorful, and communicate Cathedonian ideals of truth, beauty, girl power, and heroism in the face of gigantic eagle headed flying intergalactic lobsters.
Miller’s belief is that space, time, ladies, and Big Gulps are all particles of energy that are best rendered in paint particles. The paintings sparkle with otherworldliness in a very retro tin foil spaceship on a string way. Glitter, metallic paint, fluorescent paint, and bejeweling are all employed to depict imagined feminist utopias.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Art Center College of Design , Pasadena, CA , Graduate (1985, Illustration)
Southern Methodist University 1981-82
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
“Strange Worlds” with Mark Nelson at Ro2 Gallery, September 2015
“Chicas Felices y Pistolas” Galeria 6, Mineral de Pozos , GTO, Mexico, 2013
“ Texas Lady Singers” , Kessler Theater , Dallas , 2012
“Circa del Cielo” Galeria 6, Mineral de Pozos , GTO, Mexico , 2012
“Divine” Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, 2011
“Trigger Happy” Magnolia Gallery, Dallas, 2010
“Prepared Americans “ Kettle Gallery, Dallas, 2008
“Just Visiting” IR Gallery, Dallas, 2005
“Recent Paintings from Cathedonia” The MAC , Dallas, 2004
“Riddles from Cathedonia” Project X at Southside, Dallas, 2003
“Journey to Cathedonia” Sibley Peteet Design Firm , Dallas, 2001
“Tequila Picnic” The Jung Center , Houston, 1998
Group Exhibitions
“Savages”, The Lawley Art Group, May, 2016
“The Instigators” , Kettle Gallery, November, 2015
“Chaos , Ro2 Gallery , August, 2015, 2016
“Summer Salon” , Kettle Art Gallery , 2015
“Tunnelvisions” Kettle Art Gallery , May, 2014
“6 Arms to Hold You” RO2 at W Hotel / Aloft Dallas, 2011
“I Am Woman” Rising Gallery, Dallas, 2010
“Summer Selections” HCG Gallery, Dallas, 2009
“Pulp Fictions” Salon on the Levee, Dallas, 2009
“Function” Corinth Park Open Studios, Dallas, 2009
“Menage a Trois” Tractorbeam, Dallas, 2008
“Enchanted Wasteland” Pawn Gallery, Dallas, 2007
“Small Talk” Beta Gallery, Orlando, FL, 2007
“Collaborations” Kettle Gallery , Dallas, 2007
“Skulls, Babes, Sparkly Guns “ Kettle Gallery, Dallas, 2007
“The Horror Show” Kettle Gallery, Dallas, 2006
“Girl Art Now “ Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI, 2004
“Mirrors” The Boyd Gallery , Dallas, 2001
“Critic’s Choice Exhibit” Dallas Visual Art Center , Dallas, 1997
“Dallas Women’s Caucus for Art Nat’l Juried Show” Dallas, 1996
Installations
The Cathedonian Mothership , at “Function” , Corinth Park Warehouse, Cedars Open Studios , 2009
Honors
Speaker , Pecha Kucha Night: Dallas , Volume #4 at The Wyly Theater, Dallas, 2010
(TED X Dallas, Idea Week)
Public Art
2009 Deep Ellum Mural Project , Dallas, TX ( DART Green Line Station )
4 murals
Featured in Documentary Film “Deep Ellum Mural Project” by David Manriquez, 2009
Professional Organizations and Charities
Texas Fine Arts Association
DIFFA, Dallas (LGBTQ)
Art Conspiracy (community arts)
45 Foundation (suicide prevention)
Art Center College of Design , Pasadena, CA , Graduate (1985, Illustration)
Southern Methodist University 1981-82
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
“Strange Worlds” with Mark Nelson at Ro2 Gallery, September 2015
“Chicas Felices y Pistolas” Galeria 6, Mineral de Pozos , GTO, Mexico, 2013
“ Texas Lady Singers” , Kessler Theater , Dallas , 2012
“Circa del Cielo” Galeria 6, Mineral de Pozos , GTO, Mexico , 2012
“Divine” Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, 2011
“Trigger Happy” Magnolia Gallery, Dallas, 2010
“Prepared Americans “ Kettle Gallery, Dallas, 2008
“Just Visiting” IR Gallery, Dallas, 2005
“Recent Paintings from Cathedonia” The MAC , Dallas, 2004
“Riddles from Cathedonia” Project X at Southside, Dallas, 2003
“Journey to Cathedonia” Sibley Peteet Design Firm , Dallas, 2001
“Tequila Picnic” The Jung Center , Houston, 1998
Group Exhibitions
“Savages”, The Lawley Art Group, May, 2016
“The Instigators” , Kettle Gallery, November, 2015
“Chaos , Ro2 Gallery , August, 2015, 2016
“Summer Salon” , Kettle Art Gallery , 2015
“Tunnelvisions” Kettle Art Gallery , May, 2014
“6 Arms to Hold You” RO2 at W Hotel / Aloft Dallas, 2011
“I Am Woman” Rising Gallery, Dallas, 2010
“Summer Selections” HCG Gallery, Dallas, 2009
“Pulp Fictions” Salon on the Levee, Dallas, 2009
“Function” Corinth Park Open Studios, Dallas, 2009
“Menage a Trois” Tractorbeam, Dallas, 2008
“Enchanted Wasteland” Pawn Gallery, Dallas, 2007
“Small Talk” Beta Gallery, Orlando, FL, 2007
“Collaborations” Kettle Gallery , Dallas, 2007
“Skulls, Babes, Sparkly Guns “ Kettle Gallery, Dallas, 2007
“The Horror Show” Kettle Gallery, Dallas, 2006
“Girl Art Now “ Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI, 2004
“Mirrors” The Boyd Gallery , Dallas, 2001
“Critic’s Choice Exhibit” Dallas Visual Art Center , Dallas, 1997
“Dallas Women’s Caucus for Art Nat’l Juried Show” Dallas, 1996
Installations
The Cathedonian Mothership , at “Function” , Corinth Park Warehouse, Cedars Open Studios , 2009
Honors
Speaker , Pecha Kucha Night: Dallas , Volume #4 at The Wyly Theater, Dallas, 2010
(TED X Dallas, Idea Week)
Public Art
2009 Deep Ellum Mural Project , Dallas, TX ( DART Green Line Station )
4 murals
Featured in Documentary Film “Deep Ellum Mural Project” by David Manriquez, 2009
Professional Organizations and Charities
Texas Fine Arts Association
DIFFA, Dallas (LGBTQ)
Art Conspiracy (community arts)
45 Foundation (suicide prevention)
