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.”
