Rodica Miller

I paint because I have an adventurous spirit and prefer whimsy and liberty over realism. Painting is my true identity, my only passion that makes me feel free and accomplished. 

The encounter with Metaphysical Painting filled my heart with joy because it was exactly what I was looking for in a painting: an introspective analysis of our melancholy dissipated into a labyrinth of thoughts and emotions. A painting can be more than a veridical depiction of a portrait or a landscape. A painting can free your soul.

The dream-like mood of my compositions gets brightened by exuberant colors and undulate lines, shells, rocks, asymmetric pearls sharing wide-open spaces with one or more figurative elements. As I advance patiently, the work reveals itself and surprises me with new interpretations, constantly soliciting my interest and imagination. 

My ultimate goal is to create a visual poetry that is one-of-a-kind.

You are very welcome to visit my metaphysical surrealist oil paintings exhibition at sandramiller.

J’ai commencée ma carrière comme un peintre surréaliste toujours regardant Dali “like one of the most unusual artists of all times”. Mais, par la nature de mes sujets, mes compositions étaitent abstraits. J’ai choisie de peindre: Emil Cioran ‘La tentation d’exister”, Marcel Proust “À la recherché du temps perdu”, le GRAAL, Gabrielle D’Annunzio “Le triomphe de la morte“…Dans les dernières anneés, j’ai essayée d’ajoindre plus des éléments véristes dans mes compositions.

Ma peinture est surréaliste, mais il y a aussi une certaine “emotion” que seulement

quelques artists et photographes sont capable de la capturer. Tel peinture, métaphysique, c’est une trés évocatrice art, réminiscence de Giorgio de Chirico, Réne Magritte et Paul Delvaux qui ont été toujours mes sources de l’inspiration.


At the beginning of my career, my style was mostly Abstract Surrealist because my choice of subject was abstract. I was dealing with abstract concepts such as The Grail, The Temptation to be Alive and so on, but even though there was and still there is a dream-like ‘mood’ in my paintings. This metaphysical mood is a very evocative art, reminiscent of the early Giorgio de Chirico, or Edward Hopper, here in the U.S.

Delvaux work illustrates the superficiality of placing a label on an artist's work. He, in fact, did not buy into Surrealism. Not at the philosophical level, the intellectual level, and only marginally at the artistic level. He referred to himself as a classicist, and said that his art was like poetry. His paintings are more like theatrical stages, in which the people are actors, not real people. So here is my Metaphysical connecting point. The objective of Delvaux art is to create a feeling (the feeling of a dream), as opposed to being narrative or based on psychological relationships (although there has been a ton of writing attempting to analyze his paintings).

You are very welcome to visit my metaphysical surrealist oil paintings exhibition at sandramiller.

My Painting is unique, dream-like, and available for SURREALIST MUSEUMS, art historians and publishers, critics and established art collectors. Surrealism is a movement in 20th century literature and art which attempts to express and exhibit the workings of the subconscious mind, especially as manifested in dreams. To me, Surrealism is when I break free and paint with the alertness of thought unique interpretations of the relationship between mind and matter.Today, October 22, 2004, You are kindly invited to see the presentation of my artwork at painting.htm Sandra Miller Thank you for viewing./ On January 21, 2005, I was the Featured Artist of The Oracular Tree. Please, come and see more works of mine illustrating the Oracular's great authors.Thank you./ Dear friends in Art, starting August 28, 2005, I will be the Featured Artist of The Week at the Society for Art of Imagination, ...It is my pleasure to kindly invite you all to see me there. Thank you. Dear friends in SURREALISM, today, June 13, 2006, I have a wonderful news for you: THE MUSEUM GALLERY H R GIGER in association with THE SOCIETY for ART of IMAGINATION have the pleasure of inviting you to "A FEAST FOR THE IMAGINATION", an exhibition of inspirational paintings by over forty international artists.The exhibition is open from June 18 to October 7, 2006. Moreover, I am happy to announce to you that my work WALPURGISNACHT has been admitted in the SHOW, and it is already there at H R GIGER MUSEUM, CHATEAU ST GERMAIN in SWITZERLAND.

You are very welcome to visit my metaphysical surrealist oil paintings exhibition at sandramiller.

Today, October 28, 2004, I discovered that four of my paintings have been slashed with a knife by my ex-husband. Among them, there was 'A la Recherche du Temps Perdu'

presented here at Sorry for the bad news, but I was too shocked, and I had to let it out. Although the restoration of my art works is necessary, the paintings are still very valuable. My Painting is unique, dream-like, and available for SURREALIST MUSEUMS, art historians and publishers, critics and established art collectors. Surrealism is a movement in 20th century literature and art which attempts to express and exhibit the workings of the subconscious mind, especially as manifested in dreams. To me, Surrealism is when I break free and paint with the alertness of thought. Today, October 22, 2004, You are kindly invited to see the presentation of my artwork at painting.htm Sandra Miller Thank you for viewing./ On January 21, 2005, I was the Featured Artist of The Oracular Tree. Please, come and see more works of mine illustrating the Oracular's great authors.Thank you./ Dear friends in Art, starting August 28, 2005, I will be the Featured Artist of The Week at the Society for Art of Imagination, ...It is my pleasure to kindly invite you all to see me there. Thank you. Dear friends in SURREALISM, today, June 13, 2006, I have a wonderful news for you: THE MUSEUM GALLERY H R GIGER in association with THE SOCIETY for ART of IMAGINATION have the pleasure of inviting you to "A FEAST FOR THE IMAGINATION", an exhibition of inspirational paintings by over forty international artists.The exhibition is open from June 18 to October 7, 2006. Moreover, I am happy to announce to you that my work WALPURGISNACHT has been admitted in the SHOW, and it is already there at H R GIGER MUSEUM, CHATEAU ST GERMAIN in SWITZERLAND.

Elisa Pritzker, curator and director of HCC Highland, New York, USA, and Rodica A Miller at the opening reception of her Solo Show, 'TEMPTATION TO BE ALIVE', May 1998

Jean Mazare, director of Press Bureau of His Majesty, King Michael of Romania, and Editor of 'L'Express', Le Journal Francais de Toronto, Rodica A Miller, and NICAPETRE, Canadian artist sculptor, February 1994

Rodica A Miller, as Artist-In-Residence at Atlin Center of Arts, paying a visit to L'EXPRESS, le journal francais de Toronto in February 1994. Her works presented here, 'OUT BODY EXPERIENCE' and 'ADVENTURE IN IMMORTALITY' entered in Mr. Jean Mazare's private art colection.

Corneliu Antim, art critic and journalist, and Rodica A Miller at the opening reception of her Solo Show, 'OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS', American Cultural Center, Bucharest, Romania, January 1995.

2017- Visionary Alchemy, One Art Space Gallery, New York, NY,
2016 - The Mists of Youth, Empty Mirror, Art & Literary Magazine, Bellingham, WA
2015 - Canadian Society for Art of Imagination Show, Éco-Musée du Fier Monde, Montréal, CANADA
2015- The Rift In Time, Empty Mirror, Art & Literary Magazine, Bellingham, WA,

Art & Technology Experience:
2014 – The Living Water, podcast for http://www.estmanradio.com , Kunst
Halle Sankt Gallen, SWITZERLAND
2009- The Living Water, Touch Surface installation art project, Mercosul Biennial,
Porto Alegre, BRAZIL

Artist-In-Residence: 2009- Florsheim Mansion, Chicago, IL, USA

January 2005- M O C A, Museum of Computer Arts, New York, NY

September 2004- ART DIGITAL 2004, ART & TECHNOLOGIE, PATRIMOINE ET ART CONTEMPORAIN,
"Comment l'artiste joue avec la science" avec la participation de la faculte des sciences et techniques le Limoges, Saint-Auvent, FRANCE

January 2004- M O C A, Museum of Computer Arts, New York, NY

May 2002- GRADUATION SHOW, The Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

I'm staying inside my cloister, my cell, my cage

like some monk, detainee or mental patient

waiting for my verdict:

The Divine Light,

The Pardoning,

The Restoration of Health... "JOURNAL d'ATELIER" by Rodica Alecsandra Miller

May 1998- THE TEMPTATION TO BE ALIVE, Highland Cultural Center, Highland, NY

January 1997- THE GREAT ESCAPE, McLaine Fellowship Exhibit, INTERNATIONAL HOUSE,
New York, NY

June 1996- RED FRAGONARD, Romanian Cultural Center, New York, NY

January 1995- OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS, American Cultural Center, Bucharest, Romania

January 1993- THE GRAAL, Goethe Institut, Bucharest, Romania

June 1991- THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH, Galeria Caminul Artei, Bucharest, Romania

July 1988- THE UNSEEN ATTRACTION FORCE OF EVIL, Galeria Galateea, Bucharest, Romania

J'aime........

J'aime un oeil d'eau limpide et vert

avec le sable fin étendu peut-être par une main soignée,

vacillé timidement par la brise de la mer,

et en s'ondoyant sur les petites rondes des coquilles frémis.....


Rodica Alecsandra Miller

The unrivaled arts festival honoring Milton’s birthday and Paradise Lost, the greatest poem in the English language. Bridging classic literature and contemporary fine art, performing arts and poetry reading.

Clive Milton, a descendant of John Milton through Milton’s brother Christopher, will preside at opening ceremonies September 27th, cutting Milton's Birthday cake, which Clive will provide. And we will unveil Rich Buckler’s new “portrait of John Milton for the 21st century.” Rich is an acclaimed American artist/illustrator. On Sunday September 28th at 2 PM, Steve David will conduct a poet’s tour of the show. Steve is a unique poet who writes & recites poems about the art he sees in galleries throughout the city.

ABOUT THE SHOW: Couched amid historical artifacts and contemporary art celebrating John Milton’s 400th birthday as well as PARADISE LOST, the greatest poem in the English language. Perhaps the largest birthday party for Milton in the world, with poets, artists and composers. We will be documenting this extravaganza on video to produce a documentary for this historical event that we believe will be seen for centuries to come.


135 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211
(718) 486-6012

CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS IN THIS SHOW

Antanas Adomaitas
Stephen Auslender
Carrie Ann Baade
Donna Balma
Bienvenido Bones Banez, jr.
Robert S. Beal
Alan F. Beck
Jeff Berman
Orin Buck
Rich Buckler
Ivan Calderone
Joe Catuccio
Carolyn Chaperon
Gail Baxter Cohen
Suzanne Dahlquist
George deMoura
Matthew E. Derezinski
Gary Duehr
Jaesun Duggan
Val Dyshlov
Eric Edelman
Camilla Fallon
Ailene Fields
Jesse Forgione
Troy C. Frantz
Aimee Hertog
Tom Hooper
Sarah Horvat
Amanda Husberg
Mildred Kaye
Ray Kinlock
Arthur Kirmss
Frank Krasicki
Kris Kuksi
Randy J. Lagana
Estelle Levy
Terrance Lindall
Drew Maillard
Greg Maillard
Ben Marxen
Bertram Matysik
Gerd Matysik
Gertrud Matysik
Adam Miller
Rodica Miller
Clive Milton
Ella Morton
Walter Lynn Mosley
Eric Reuben Nelson
Yuko Nii
Leah Oates
Olek
David Orr
Linda Paleias
Lennie Peterson
Carol Quint
Max Razdow
Luis Rojas
Michael Knud Ross
Tim Slowinski
Gary Spradling (in memorium)
Phyllis Stapler
Sandra Taggart
Mayumi Takagi
Matthew Turov
Marcela Varona
Benjamin A. Vierling
Sharyne E. Walker
Jon Neal Wallace
Brian Kent WardMary Westring

La ville folle, la ville de l'Amour.....

La ville où, à cause d'en trop d'amour,

j'ai déclenché l'Esprit du Mal....

Fantasmus Presents the Society for the Art of Imagination, 13th July - 30th August.

The exhibition features 37 AOI artists.

Jane Andrews - Lee Banham - Mette Agerbo Bendtsen - Leonard Brett - Claus Brusen - Rachel Carro - Michelle Clare - Annebelle Claudia - Michel de Saint Ouen - Val Dyshlov - Eike Erzmoneit - Diana Hesketh - Magda Francot - Artur Golacki - Igor Grechanyk - Nezir Korkmaz - Ktisztina Lazar - Samuel Lightwing - Jack Lipowczan - Brigid Marlin - Catherina McCartney - Rodica Miller - Voytek Nowakowski - Sheila Nursten - Silvia Pastore - Lindsey Pickett - Leo Plaw - Frank Pudney - Regina Rayzvikh - Russ Revock - Carol Spicuzza - Olga Spiegel - Anthony Tiffin - Miguel Tio - Aleta Welling - Ulysses G. Whitehouse

Daniel from Galerie Princesse de Kiev in Nice, will attend the opening to choose who he think he can promote in the south of France. The exhibition will be attended by gallerists and museum curators. This is also the peak time of the tourist season, so Saeby will be crowded with people, so the exhibition is expected to be popular.

Entrance price is 50,000 Kr.

Society for the Art of Imagination

Fantasmus
GRØNNEGADE 3
SÆBY
DENMARk

Ph: +45 98 40 98 60
Mob: +45 20 12 24 20

Rodica Alecsandra Miller Petrescu

Biography

I was born and raised in Bucharest, Romania where I earned a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts ‘ Nicolae Grigorescu’. In 1996, I moved to the United States where I earned an Associate in Applied Science degree in Textile/ Surface Design from Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, New York, NY in 2002. In spite of all difficulties and complications, I managed to have my own gallery, and started to promote my art through the Internet since the year of 2003.

Painting is part of myself, a spectacular ordeal with so little satisfactions, but even though: Nothing is more wonderful than the time spent in the studio, when you isolate yourself from the daily turmoil, and, with an eagerness comparable to that before a competition, you start working. It is a unique moment, when fatigue and loneliness- which crushed you like a fatality, devouring you without haste- disappear...At last, the painting is ready and speaks...Around you, there is silence. Everything has its own meaning, and tired by the achieved flight, you feel like the chronicler of the time, who recorded the results of these experiences to leave them to those who will follow the same Path...

My painting has been strongly influenced by the metaphysical surrealist painters De Chirico “ the poet of emptiness” and Rene Magritte through his philosophical investigation and impossible settings. As for my painting technique, I feel comfortable with oil on canvas and the black backgrounds represent always the Time and Outer Space for my soliloquies.

Welcome to my world!

“ Like the merging flow of joined dreams, the neo- surrealistic realms explored in the visual meditations of Rodica Alecsandra Petrescu angle into subterranean corners of the psyche. Frozen in states of becoming, they seem to taunt the meaning of actualization.”

Irving, G, Alexander- ‘ New Art International’, Book Art Press, Publishers, NY, 1999.

Contact information

Email address:


Home phone #: ( 845) 331-0041

Website address: http://

The concept for my work is to capture an emotional thought using pure beauty. It is not about good proportions of the Ancient Greek sculptures, it is not the playful, sensuous beauty of Rococo, it is not the sublime experience of Romanticism, it is the beauty of human emotions. The goal is to depict a state of mind that I have while painting, making a work that appeals to both vision and intellect. To me, the narrative comes after and is of a lesser importance than the lyrical content. I like to discover my composition, but keep its development under control by editing the abstract or figurative elements that can complicate or create discrepancy. Altogether, my work employs conscious and subconscious thinking in the search for that state of completion.
Starting from an inspiring line or color, I let my imagination produce something original. Once the composition gets clarity, I work on the details and accents that will amplify the atmosphere and offer more interpretations. In my concept, beauty has also a mysterious quality, imperfections and even disorder.

Instead of being more practical, in a dreamlike atmosphere, I employ emotional skills to produce unique artworks out of the deep sense of spiritual need. The ultimate goal is to create an illusory place where one can retreat and escape the daily turmoil.

Featured Artist: Rodica Miller, September 9, 2005, THE ORACULAR TREE,

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Featured Artist of the Week, Rodica Miller, August 28- September 3, 2005, THE
SOCIETY FOR ART OF IMAGINATION, London, UK

1@IOnOne, LIVE MAGAZINE, January 2005, Digital: Art & Tech: Sandra Miller

Featured Artist: Rodica Miller, January 21, 2005, THE ORACULAR TREE

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1@IOnOne, LIVE Magazine, December 2004, Digital: Art & Tech: Sandra Miller

Featured Artists: Rodica A Petrescu Miller, THE ART FIX, Issue 45, December 2004

Award of Excellence - the Sixth Annual Art Competition MANHATTAN ARTS
INTERNATIONAL, New York, NY, 1997
Diploma of Excellence - The 5th International Exhibition of Miniature Art , Art
Addiction International Gallery, Stockholm, SWEDEN, 1997
Diploma of Excellence- The 4th International Female Artist’s Art Annual, Art Addiction
International Gallery, Stockholm, SWEDEN, 1997
McLaine Fellowship Exhibit- INTERNATIONAL HOUSE, New York, NY, 1997

Artist- In-Residence- Atlin Center of the Arts, Toronto, CANADA, 1993-1994

Selected Works:

2006- “Walpurgisnacht”, oil on canvas, selected by Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in
Leipzig, Germany for the concert catalog of the season 2007/2008, page 40-41
2006- ”The Unseen Attraction Force of Evil”, oil on canvas, at the Museum of World’s
Illustration at Glowinski Library, Olesnica, Poland
2002- “Floral“, dye & gouache design, “Fashion Fabric International Exhibition” at
The Javitz Center, Jacob K Javitz Convention Center, New York, NY
2000- “The Great Escape“, oil on canvas, selected for “Eminescian Resonance in
Fine Arts”, Litera International Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania
1999-”Dust, Mould & Flamingo Feather“, “The Break“, selected for Surrealistic Billows,
”New Art International”, Book Art Press Publishers, New York, NY
1996- “The Encyclopedia of Romanian Contemporary Artists”: Rodica A Petrescu,
ARC 2000 Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania
1991- “DYONISUS“, “GENESIS”, oil on canvas, selected for “Eminescian Echoes in
Fine Arts”, Rodica A Petrescu, Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania

Major Media Presentation:

TV January 1995- NEWS, Romanian National Television Channel 1 & 2
January 1993- CONFLUENCES, Art Program Romanian National Television
Channel 1
October 1993- ATELIER, Art Program Romanian National Television
Channel 2
Radio January 1995- Romania Actualitati Radio Station , Radio Tinerama,
Antena Bucurestilor Radio Station
January 1993- Romanian National Radio Station, Fun Radio, Uniplus Radio


Bibliography

November 2004- LIVE MAGAZINE, < livenov04.htm>,
Sandra Miller Metaphysical Painting, November 4, 2004
May 1998 - CHRONOGRAM, “ Temptation to Be Alive”, Mid-Hudson
Magazine of Events & Ideas, Luminary Publishing Partners,
New York State
May 1998 - HIGHLAND POST, Hudson Valley Newspapers, NY
May 1998 - ART TIMES, CSS Publications, Inc., New York
May 1998 - LUMEA LIBERA ROMANEASCA, Magazine of Events & Ideas,
New York, NY,
February 1998 - ART NOW, Gallery Guide, New York, NY
January 1998 - ARTSPEAK, Art Magazine, New York, NY
January 1998 - ART NOW, Gallery Guide, New York, NY
April 1997 - HIGHLAND POST, Hudson Valley Newspapers, NY
January 1995 - COTIDIANUL, Art Magazine, Bucharest, Romania
January 1995 - CRONICA ROMANA, Art Magazine, Bucharest, Romania
January 1995 - MAGAZIN INTERNATIONAL, Art Magazine, Bucharest, Romania
January 1993 - Antim, Corneliu. “The Shape of Ideal” LUCEAFARUL, Romanian
Writers Organization, Bucharest, Romania, January 27, 1993, 4 (152)
Periodical magazine, issue fully illustrated with my artworks
January 1993 - ROMANIA LIBERA, Daily Newspapers, Bucharest, Romania
June 1991 - Antim, Corneliu. “ The Anatomy of Dream” LUCEAFARUL, Romanian
Writers Organization, Bucharest, Romania, June 5, 1991, 23 (71)
Periodical magazine, issue fully illustrated with my artworks
July 1988 - LUCEAFARUL, Romanian Writers Organization, Bucharest, Romania,
July 9, 1988, issue fully illustrated with my artworks
July 1988 - ROMANIA LITERARA, Art Magazine, Bucharest, Romania
July 1988 - CONTEMPORANUL, Art Magazine, Bucharest, Romania
July 1988 - SAPTAMANA, Magazine of Events & Ideas, Bucharest, Romania