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Hub was born in Panama and moved with his family frequently, collecting mental images from across the U.S., the Alps of Austria and the Atlantic Ocean; images that began to appear as drawings by age six and oil paintings by age nine.
Naturally influenced by the company he kept (crazy as a bud bug), he was taken, out of public school in California and placed in a school for problem kids. The art teacher there helped him survive the hostile environment and gave him initial direction as an artist. In Omaha he won a citywide drawing competition for high school students.
His work developed an odd juxtaposition of seemingly opposite and mutually exclusive elements; calmness amid chaos, destruction amid construction, Shaker and Bauhaus architecture amid Gothic and Baroque. Finally architecture itself became an issue.
He was included in a show that featured drawing and painting by every major artist of the surrealist movement from Rene Magritte to Salvador Dali: the 25th anniversary show at the Valley House Gallery in Dallas. Then the Cavin-Morris and Michael Ingbar galleries in New York, as well as Valley House and several other galleries around the country represented him.
From the time of the eruption of Mt. St Helen's, volcanic eruptions became a subject. Then mountains themselves became an issue after the time spent in the Himalayas of Northern Pakistan. Finally and at last, the physical world became only an excuse for the celebration of color and design.
Hub has lived in Northern New Mexico since 1996. His work is in various private and corporate collections from coast to coast.
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"The concept of beauty may fall into disrepute, or at least the concept of making anything beautiful 'by hand', may be questioned. I still think it's possible that handwork will combine with machine-processes to produce something highly valued by humankind. At some point, however, handwork may only involve pushing the buttons of machines that produce 'art'. In the meantime, I'll continue to use brush and pencil while keeping an open mind to what's coming down the highway." -Hub Miller
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