Erin Miller (she/her) is an artist based in Austin, Texas whose practice begins with printmaking and extends into painting, drawing, textiles, and sculptural installation. She uses print as both a technical foundation and a conceptual framework: an approach rooted in repetition, layering, and the fluid boundaries between image and material. Across surfaces of paper, fabric, and architectural space, she investigates perception, psychological tension, and the shifting relationship between control and release.
Her work draws from ornamental materials like textiles, carpeting, and dyed fabrics, cultivating a theatrical sensibility shaped by color, pattern, and atmosphere. Recent projects move toward quieter, more contemplative processes influenced by surgical recovery. The slow rhythm of swimming, a therapeutic practice for Miller, parallels the durational, meditative marks she builds through etching, monotype, and layered color washes.
Miller’s conceptual interests are informed by Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater’s Thought-Forms, whose abstractions give visible shape to emotion and interior experience. Likewise, her layered prints operate as her own “thought forms,” materializing sensations of tension, buoyancy, and transformation. Guided by a process she describes as “alchemy gone awry,” Miller fragments, reassembles, and prints to create atmospheric works that oscillate between perception and feeling.
Miller earned her MFA from Cornell University in 2022, where she received the Kip Brady Memorial Prize in Printmaking and the John Hartell Graduate Award in Studio Excellence. She completed the Kahn Family Fellowship at The Ink Shop (Ithaca, NY) in 2023 and currently serves as Lecturer and Printmaking Area Lab Manager at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also an artist member of MASS Gallery in Austin, Texas.
Recent News
"Artist finds balance in work as printmaker, lecturer and lab manager", Interview, Texas Connect Magazine, Spring 2025
"They Say Taupe is Very Soothing" by Bucky Miller, Exhibition Text