Open House at TRAC Friday Nov 13th and Artwalk Nov 21st.

This Friday, November 13th I am having my first open house of the 2009 - 2010 art season and my Gallery at TRAC (Tarpon River Art Center). I have many new pieces that I am showing for the first time and all the artist at TRAC are displaying their new art. The opening is from 6 to 9 pm.
TRAC is located at 614 SW. Flagler Ave. Ft. Lauderdale, 33301.
That south of the New River off of Andrews. Next to the 3 story Publix. Turn west at 6th St. - go two short blocks, turn left(south) and TRAC is up about 1/2 block.

On November 21st 2009, I will be the featured artist at the Hollywood Art Walk. I will be doing a demo linocut and printing it and the completed piece will be given away at the end to the winner of the drawing. Tickets are free, you just need to sign my sign in sheet with your email address.

EBSQ Spotlight on Hand-pulled Traditional Printmaking: Larry Joe Miller
26Aug09

This month’s featured gallery is Hand-pulled Traditional Printmaking. No two prints are ever the same, even if pulled from the same plate. Each print, regardless of technique, is an entirely individual piece of art. It is this aspect combined with the variety of print-making techniques that have made printmaking a versatile and popular art process for thousands of years. Whether dry point, block print, collagraph or lithograph, creating hand pulled prints is often a labor intensive but unique and interesting way of creating art. Throughout August, we are going to take a few moments to catch up with some of our artists that work to create hand-pulled prints.
Larry Joe Miller


I am currently blending Chinese Ink painting, Japanese woodblock cutting into my style and new prints. I love impressionistic art and hope to take the subtle shading of Chinese ink to multi-block printing. I have started doing lino along with woodblock on the same print and have accomplished blending the two very successfully. Mainly I want to grow with my techniques and develop new styles that will be cutting edge (no pun intended) in the print world. – Larry Joe Miller

The Art of Larry Joe Miller

Larry Joe Miller has been an artist and musician since 1960. He has fronted many bands including; The Thingies, and Larry Joe Miller and the Rockabilly Rockets. Larry Joe studied art at the University of Nebraska in the ‘60’s and then moved to Manitou Springs, Colorado where he opened his own gallery named “A Touch of the Bizarre”. This gallery specialized in Larry’s metal sculpture and jewelry designs. In 1975, he moved to Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood, Florida area, where he did local art shows and taught jewelry classes at Nova High School and Broward Community College.

Larry opened his own gallery in Himmershee Village in 1978, under the name of “Quicksilver Jewelry”. At this shop he showcased his original art and metal sculpture, and had one of the most successful galleries in the downtown Ft. Lauderdale area.

In 1982, Larry decided to close Quicksilver and go back on the road with his rockabilly band and traveled extensively throughout the east coast area of the U.S. After several years on the road, Larry knew it was time to come home to Hollywood and settle down.

Since then he has been an active member of the Broward Art Guild– he was President of the Broward Art Guild, Board Member and chairman of the Exhibition Committee— and currently President of the Hollywood Art Guild his work and passion is to promote the arts in the South Florida area. He is doing this by sponsoring local Plein Air events.

We are all equally cursed and blessed to see the world exclusively through our eyes only; my goal in linocut and my other art styles is to pass on my own perspective to viewers so that they may share in that same unique vision. How many ways can we see the minutiae of the simplest domestic scene, or the sprawling details of a rustic panorama? Whether at home in the studio or printing outside en plein air, I strive to illuminate this viewpoint via time-tested, traditional techniques. Modern tools and shortcuts simply cannot capture the purity of line and color, be it single/multiblock/reduction, with such exquisite clarity. I want to observe the observers, and to know my objective is truly accomplished when they smile and say, “I see it, I get it, I feel it.”