“Family Time” is an exhibit of works by Christopher, Stephanie, and Jimmy Miracle. The Miracle trio is presented as an underwater video installation, celebrating life through creative imagination, viewed in conversation through the meticulous lens of Jimmy’s family portrait drawings, paintings, and sculptures. A walrus drawing by the natural talent of a child, a terra cotta portrait of a son by his father, and portrait drawings of the pregnant Stephanie are a few pieces from this eclectic selection of works which display the Miracle family alive, creating, and still smiling underwater.
Jimmy Miracle | jimmymiracle.com
On display through the month of March.
Free admission
Arts IC | ArtiFactory Gallery Open Saturdays | 1-3 pm
or by appointment
Jimmy Miracle is an American visual artist whose diverse body of work spans the genres of traditional painting, colorist landscapes, installation, and social practice through investigating perception, memory, observation, and awareness. Born in Ohio in 1983, Miracle received his MFA from UC Santa Barbara in 2018 and a B.A. in studio art, magna cum laude from Belhaven University in 2004 in Jackson, MS. He has lived and worked in Florida, Mississippi, New York City, New Jersey, Washington DC, Maryland, Germany, California, and Iowa City. He was the 2018-2019 Teaching Fellow at the University of California Santa Barbara and recipient of the Humanities in the Community Grant from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Council where he exhibited and co-created along with artists suffering from mental illness and his choreographic collaborator, Stephanie Miracle. He has had solo and group shows in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, London, and Washington, DC exhibiting at Ziehersmith, Outlet Fine Art, HKJB, The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, The Islip Art Museum, Castle Gallery, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and Flashpoint Gallery among others as an installation artist and painter. He also worked as a studio painting assistant for Jeff Koons, and studied classical drawing, painting, and sculpture at the Art Student’s League of New York and Chelsea Classical Studio with Michael Grimaldi, Brandon Soloff, Dan Thompson, and Steve Perkins. He has received the Cultural DC Creative Communities Fund Grant, the Maryland State Art Council Individual Artist Grant, the Howard Fenton Award for Painting, and the Levitan Fellowship among others, and has lectured at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. He teaches color, composition, portraiture, life drawing, and painting in universities, workshops, and privately in his studio.