We Need Less — Kelsey Miller

We Need Less Than We Think

For the series “We Need Less Than We think,” the artist is making fifty prints about earth to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. While visiting a beach near her home, she collected trash that was discarded there. Using the beach debris as stencils and reliefs, Miller makes monoprints in her home studio. She also fashions the rubber soles of her shoes into relief blocks and uses plastic letter forms in her monotypes, all of which are printed on old lithographs by the artist that she has cut down to 9 x 12 inches. The end result is meditative abstract prints compromised of evocative forms in a subdued, elegiac palette.

-Francine Weiss, curator, Newport Art Museum