Amanda Jackson Miller
Albuquerque, NM
Untitled
Woven wool, Sari silk
16" x 20"
2024
About
Amanda Jackson Miller is a proud New Mexican who has lived and worked in NM for 42 years. Her work mostly consists of textile, fiber arts and photography. Amanda's relationship with arts & crafts began at a very early age as her grandmother and mother were both artisans. Amanda attended the University of New Mexico in 2000 as a single, teenage mother. Her art explores the push and pull she has felt in motherhood, in being a wife, in pursuing her own creative work while balancing it all. Amanda's work was last shown in 2004 at the Albuquerque Art Museum; after a 20 year hiatus, she is thrilled to be exhibiting her work again.
You can see more of her work at www.AmandaJacksonMiller.com
Artist Statement
Drawing on her experiences as a young single mother, Amanda’s work explores the interwoven themes of motherhood, postpartum depression and female identity. Employing and stretching the traditional mediums of her own childhood memories of crochet circles, yarn, gossip, fabric and nostalgia, Amanda seeks to write her own narrative of a modern female identity – one stretched by the demands of domestic, business, and artistic endeavors.
Amanda has been heavily influenced by her studies in photography and writing as well as by her early exposure to her mother, grandmother and mother-in-law -- all of whom are mixed media artists.
Amanda’s work uses carefully considered color, textures and light to present the viewer with a glance into a mother’s experience.
Art from Amanda Jackson Miller in other TAAC exhibitions
This is Amanda Jackson Miller's first TAAC exhibition