Brenda Miller
Brenda Miller (b. 1941, Bronx, NY) is known for her innovative sisal wall sculptures, typewriting, and Alphabet rubber-stamped ink and pencil works. She has exhibited work at prominent institutions like the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art. As a feminist and active participant in the 1970s women's movement, Miller co-founded the Ad-Hoc Women Artists Committee with notable figures like Faith Ringgold and Lucy Lippard. Her early work merges gender politics with post-minimalism, using repurposed materials like sisal and rubber stamps to imbue abstraction with meaning. Brenda Miller explores the relationship between process, repetition, and time, emphasizing impermanence. Her Alphabet series, based on a specific grid structure and incorporating a distinctive use of rubber stamps and blue pencil, reflects her focus on obsessive repetition and the physicality of language. With her sisal sculptures, Brenda Miller also engages with the idea of permanence through transient materials, making work that exists in multiple stages: diagrammed, potential, and actualized. Her art’s intellectual rigor and materiality speak to the complexity of change, time, and memory.
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NYT Review by Jillian Steinhauer of Brenda Miller’s “Works from the 70s” at Zürcher Gallery, New York, 2025.
