bio
I make site responsive sculpture, installations and drawings that are informed by the conditions of a place: the pitch of a roof, the green of a forest, the density of a thatch wall. Created through a visceral, tactile connection, these cumulative works of wool industrial felt, wood, vellum and utilitarian textiles, explore landscape, memory and human vulnerability.
Through incremental and modular processes of building or mark making, I make distilled, minimal forms that explore spatial relationships and reveal shifting systems of order and interval. Interest in architecture, repetition, mass and void, compression and weight are foundational qualities guiding my practice.
Recent exhibitions include: SITE Seeing, Charlotte Street Foundation Gallery, Decade, In Place, Haw Contemporary, Unconventional: The Legacy of Joseph Beuys, Goethe Pop Up, Kansas City, MO, The Power of Place, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 2020 China + USA Technology + Innovation in Fiber, Beijing+ Philadelphia, PA. Other exhibitions include Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City.
Honors include: Charlotte Street Foundation Fellowship, MidAmerica/National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowship, Studios Inc. Residency Award and Allied Arts and Craftsmanship Award, AIA / Kansas City, Arts KC Inspiration Grant. Recent Residencies at Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY, Haystack Mountain School, Deer Isle, ME and Constellation Studios, Lincoln, NE, GlogauAIR Residency & Open Studios, Berlin, Germany. Recent projects include commissions for Drug Free Sport International, Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO, Health Education Building / University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, School of Business / University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
Reviews and writings of her work include: Art in America, Sculpture, ID Magazine, Review, Kansas City Star, Politiken, Copenhagen, with publications Marking 20 Years: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 10: Charlotte Street Foundation 10th Anniversary. Her work is held in numerous collections including Lockton Inc, American Century Investments, Missouri Bank, Barkley, Helix Architecture + Design, American Institute of Architects, and private collections in New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles, Detroit and Kansas City.
Miller Gross received a Master of Fine Arts at Cranbrook Academy of Art, and held teaching appointments at Kansas City Art Institute and University of Kansas. She is represented by Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO.