In their own finery, and now in the finery of their painted representation, these queens look levelly out at us, regarding us as we regard them. And because they are so lusciously painted we are so lusciously invited to take a good long look. In mark-making full of wander and expression Miller scoops these figures up from the dust of their epochs, fixes them up with the exciting material excess of her paint, and, now presentable, presents them to us here new with the vestigial shapes of their times and places ghostily about. Queens are tragic, are thoughtful, are quick, careful, fabulous, time-travelers (as is paint itself!), are lofty, physical, tender, curious, sparkling. 

Vinetta Miller was born on November 11th, 1973 at Philadelphia’s JFK Memorial Hospital. She graduated from Penn Wood High School and Wynnewood High School before starting to make artwork at Oasis, an art studio in Philadelphia. Vinetta has worked at the Center for Creative Works in Wynnewood, PA since 2013.

​Vinetta's artwork has been exhibited at the Outsider Art Fair (New York, NY), Woodmere Museum (Philadelphia, PA), ArtYard (Frenchtown, NJ), and Haverford College (Haverford, PA)