Julie Miller
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Julie Miller is the first artist-in-residence at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute, an independent, non-profit institution dedicated to basic biomedical research to promote the understanding, treatment and prevention of human diseases. At the Institute, Miller meets with scientists and studies not only the structures of the organic world, but also the increasingly complex ways in which biological data is represented and understood via computer technology. These patterns derived from nature inform the artist’s imagery which is at once simple – comprised of circles and lines – and densely complicated. Miller’s nested and intertwined geometric elements map an imaginary situation in which the cellular meets the cosmological with exuberant joy. Miller’s titles (o(10), o(11), o(13), etc.) are data-neutral because she is more interested in the idea of data, and its relationships and energies, than in any particular phenomena that the data might represent.
In addition to Miller’s works-on-paper, created with ink and paint marker (a tool also used by graffiti artists), this gallery also contains an example of her work in digital animation. The artist uses the computer to set her imagery in motion, across time and space. This complementary aesthetic strategy adds dynamism to her work, and reflects a universe – like our own – where nothing is static and data is infinite.
Julie Miller resides in Boston, MA
Image: Julie Miller, o(11) , 2006, ink and paint marker on paper, 11 ½” x 11 ½”, Lent by the Artist, Courtesy osp gallery, Boston , MA
