- Resume
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- Paul McMillan
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- E-Mail
- www.paulmcmillan.com
412 320 5148
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- Education:
Self taught in drawing, paint mediums and techniques, sculpture.
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- Solo Exhibits:
1985 "Landscape And Still Life," Hummingbird Originals,"
Ft. Worth, TX
1993 "Surreal Only," McMillan Studio, Taos, NM
1994 "I Am a Painter," Jes Gordon Gallery, Taos NM
2007 "Artist of the Month," Barnes & Nobles, Ithaca,
NY
2007 "Night & Day," Collegetown Bagels, Ithaca,
NY
- 2008 "25 Year Retrospective,"
McMillan Art Center, Enfield, NY
2009 "Solo Exhibit," Center for the Arts of Homer,
Homer, NY
- 2011 "Twenty Year Retrospective"
Spinning Plate Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
- 2015 "A Midsummers Night,"
Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, Gallery, Farmington, PA
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- Group Exhibits:
1992 "Nonrepresentational," Stables Art Gallery, Taos,
NM
1992 "Human Form," Stables Art Gallery, Taos, NM
1992 "Something Wild," Las Vegas, NM
1992 "Family Values," Stables Art Gallery, Taos, NM
1993 "Taos Invites Taos," Taos, NM
1994 "Time," Stables Art Gallery, Taos, NM
1995 "Self Portrait," Stables Art Gallery, Taos, NM
1996 "New York Art Expo," New York City, NY
1998 "Taos Today," Armory Building., Taos, NM
1998 "Primary to Romantic," Dos Lunas Gallery, Taos,
NM
2000 "Masterworks of New Mexico," Albuquerque, NM
2001 "Three Painters, Three Perspectives," Gallery
at the Gamble Mill, Bellefonte, PA
2001 "Images 2001," Central Pennsylvania Festival of
the Arts, State College, PA
- 2001 "Artists in Our Midst,"
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art Altoona, PA
2001 "Art In Common," Southern Alleghenies Museum of
Art, Altoona, PA
2001 "Lewisburg Festival of The Arts, 20th Annual Art Exhibit,"
Lewisburg, PA
- 2002 "Made in New York
2002," Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn NY
2002 "Art Trail--Group Exhibit," Ithaca, NY
2007 "First Annual Ithaca Festival Paint Off," Ithaca,
NY
2007 "Light, Line, and Shadow," CSMA, Ithaca, NY
2007 "2000 Open Show," CSMA, Ithaca, NY
2007 "Syracuse Technology Garden, Syracuse, NY
2007 "Ithaca Paint Off," Most Enchanted Award, Ithaca,
NY
2007 "Altered Esthetics, "Día de los Muertos"
Minneapolis, MN
2007 "Small Works & Miniatures," Upstairs Gallery,
Ithaca, NY
2008 "Time Lines," CSMA, Ithaca, NY
2008 "25 Year Retrospective," McMillan Art Center,
Enfield, NY
2009 "Solo Exhibit," Center for the Arts of Homer,
Homer, NY
2009 "Ithaca Paint Off," Ithaca, NY
2009 "Empty Chair Project," CSMA, Ithaca, NY
2009 "Dia de Los Muertos" Exhibit, Bakersfield Museum
of Art, Bakersfield, CA
- 2011 "Four Person Show,"
Christeen Fachard Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
- 2011 "Halo Exhibit,"
Pittsburgh Society of Artists, Pittsburgh, PA
- 2011 "37th Annual, Westmoreland
Art Nationals," Westmoreland Community College Exhibit,
Youngwood, PA
- 2011 "37th Annual, Westmoreland
Art Nationals," Westmoreland Art & Heritage Festival,
Twin Lakes, PA
- 2011 "Pittsburgh Society
of Artists, 2011 Annual," Pittsburgh, PA
- 2011 "Art All Night,"
Pittsburgh, PA
- 2011 "Hoyt Mid Atlantic
Juried Exhibition," New Castle, PA
- 2011 "Twenty Year Retrospective,"
Spinning Plate Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
- 2012 "Rocking Horse Art
Space, Pittsburgh, PA
- 2012 "Void Absent / Empty,"Panza
Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
- 2012 "Hoyt Regional Juried
Art Exhibition," Pittsburgh, PA
- 2012 "Juried Biennial"
Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburgh, PA
- 2012 "Art All Night,"
Pittsburgh, PA
- 2012 "Confluence"
Merrick Masters Regional Art Exhibition, New Brighten, PA
- 2012 "Tone It Up,"
Pittsburgh Society of Artists, Pittsburgh, PA
- 2012 "Midland Arts Council
Summer Exhibition" Midland, PA
- 2012 "38th Annual, Westmoreland
Art Nationals," Westmoreland community College, Youngwood,
PA
- 2012 "38th Annual, Westmoreland
Art Nationals," Westmoreland Arts and Heritage Festival,
Twin Lakes Park, PA
- 2012 "Timeless," Associated
Artists of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
- 2012 "Scapes," Pittsburgh
Society of Artists, Pittsburgh, PA
2012 "PSA Annual," Pittsburgh Society of Artists, Pittsburgh,
PA
- 2012 "17th Annual Regional
Juried Exhibition," Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at
Ligonier Valley, PA
- 2013 "Illumination,"
Rowe Gallery, Greensburgh Art Center, Greensburgh PA
- 2013 "Images 2013,"
Pennsylvannia Festival of the Arts, Robeson Gallery, State College,
PA
- 2013 "39th Annual, Westmoreland
Art Nationals," Westmoreland community College, Youngwood,
PA
- 2013 "39th Annual, Westmoreland
Art Nationals," Westmoreland Arts and Heritage Festival,
Twin Lakes Park, PA
- 2013 "10th Annual Juried
Art Exhibition," Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community,
Harrisonburg, VA
- 2013 "Salon Show,"
Gallery 4, Pittsburgh, PA
- 2013 "Midland Arts Council
Summer Exhibition," Midland, PA
- 2013 "Monroeville Arts
Council 24th Art Show," Monroeville, PA
- 2013 "Banana Split Exhibit"
Great American Banana Split Celebration, Latrobe Art Center,
Latrobe, PA
- 2013 "Sanctuary Exhibit"
Pittsburgh Society of Artists, Pittsburgh, PA
- 2012 "18th Annual Regional
Juried Exhibition," Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at
Ligonier Valley, PA
- 2014 "91st Annual Spring
Show" Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
- 2014 "40th Annual, Westmoreland
Art Nationals," Westmoreland community College, Youngwood,
PA
- 2014 "40th Annual, Westmoreland
Art Nationals," Westmoreland Arts and Heritage Festival,
Twin Lakes Park, PA
- 2014 "PSA Small Works Exhibit,"
Most Wanted Fine Arts, Pittsburgh, Pa
- 2014 "Art for the Heart,"
Squirel Hill Center for Rehabilitation, Pittsburgh, Pa
- 2014 "Dia de los Muertos,
Topeka Art Exhibit," Topeka, KS
- 2014 "2014 Art Gala,"
Greater Latrobe School District Special Art Collection, Latrobe,
PA
- 2014 "19th Annual Regional
Juried Exhibition, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Ligonier
Valley, PA
- 2015 "50th Annual Non-Juried
Exhibition," Pittsburgh Society of Artists, Pittsburgh,
PA
- 2015 "92nd Annual Spring
Show" Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
- 2015 "Int(Au)spective"
Three Rivers Art Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
- 2015 "41th Annual, Westmoreland Art Nationals,"
Westmoreland Art & Heritage Festival, Twin Lakes, PA
- 2016 "93rd Annual Spring
Show," Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
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- Awards Received:
1986 Runner Up, "Texas Sesquicentennial Artist of the Year
Contest," Austin, TX
1986 Runner Up, "Bell Telephone Texas Sesquicentennial Cover
Contest," Dallas, TX
1991 People's Choice, "Interpretive Landscapes," Stables
Art Gallery, Taos, NM
1995 Best of Show, "Taos Spring Arts," Taos, NM
1999 Second Overall, "25th Anniversary Taos Fall Arts Festival,"
Taos, NM
2001 First Place, 20th Annual Art Exhibit, Lewisburg Festival
of The Arts, Lewisburg, PA
- 2001 Honorable Mention, Artists
in Our Midst, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art Altoona, PA
- 2011 Jurors Choice, "Halo
Exhibit" Pittsburgh Society of Artists, Pittsburgh, PA
- 2011 Best of Show, "37th
Annual, Westmoreland Art Nationals," Westmoreland Community
College Exhibit, Youngwood, PA
- 2011 Peoples Choice, "37th
Annual, Westmoreland Art Nationals," Westmoreland Art &
Heritage Festival, Twin Lakes, PA
2011 Merit Award, "Hoyt Mid Atlantic Juried Exhibition,"
New Castle, PA
- 2012 Best of Show & Peoples
Choice,"Rocking Horse Art Space," Pittsburgh, PA
- 2012 Merit Award, "Midland
Arts Council Summer Exhibition" Midland, PA
- 2012 Joan Swanson Macey Award,
"2012 Annual Exhibition," Pittsburgh Society of Artists,
Pittsburgh, PA
- 2012 Inclusion in the Greater
Latrobe School District Special Art Collection, Latrobe, PA
2013 Peoples Choice, "17th Annual Regional Juried Exhibition,
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Ligonier Valley, PA
- 2013 Juror's Award, "Midland
Arts Council Summer Exhibition," Midland, PA
- 2013 Peoples Choice, "38th
Annual, Westmoreland Art Nationals" Westmoreland Community
College Exhibit, Youngwood, PA
- 2013 Peoples Choice, "38th
Annual, Westmoreland Art Nationals" Westmoreland Art &
Heritage Festival, Twin Lakes, PA
- 2013 First Place, oil/acrylic
"Monroeville Arts Council 24th Art Show," Monroeville,
PA
- 2013 Second Place, "Banana
Split Exhibit" Great American Banana Split Celebration,
Latrobe Art Center, Latrobe, PA
- 2013 Juror's Choice, "Sanctuary
Exhibit" Pittsburgh Society of Artists, Pittsburgh, PA
- 2014 Jurors Award, "91st
Annual Spring Show" Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
- 2014 Jurors Award, Summer Exhibition,
Midland Art Council, Midland , PA
- 2014 First Place "Art for
the Heart," Squirrel Hill Center for Rehabilitation, Pittsburgh,
PA
- 2014 Award, "Dia de los
Muertos Topeka Art Exhibit," Topeka, KS
- 2014 Award of Merit, "19th
Annual Regional Juried Exhibition, Southern Alleghenies Museum
of Art at Ligonier Valley, PA
- 2015 Jurors Award, "92nd
Annual Spring Show" Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
- 2015 Peoples Choice "41th Annual, Westmoreland
Art Nationals," Westmoreland Art & Heritage Festival,
Twin Lakes, PA
- 2016 NPAA Award "93nd Annual
Spring Show," Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
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- Painting Demonstrations:
2009 -- Paint -Off, Ithaca, NY, --Thirty artists given thirty
minutes to complete a painting. (30 artists, awards)
2010 -- Paint -Off, Ithaca, NY, --Thirty minutes to complete
a painting. (30 artists, awards)
2012 -- PSA Art Day, Pittsburgh, PA -- Complete a Night scene
in thirty minutes.
2012 -- Penn Hills Art Association, Penn Hills, PA -- Complete
a Night scene in one hour.
2012 -- East Urban Arts League, Murrysville, PA -- Complete a
Night scene in one hour.
2013 -- East Urban Arts League, Murrysville, PA -- Complete a
Desert scene in one hour.
2013 -- Westmoreland Arts and Craft Festival, Baord meeting fundraiser,
--Complete a night scene in one hour.
2014 -- PSA demonstrator, Pittsburgh, PA -- Complete Night scene
in thirty minutes (3 artists, not a contest).
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- Teaching /Workshop
Experience:
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- 1981, 1982, 1983, Instructor:
Youth Art Appreciation (summer class)
--Weatherford Junior College, Weatherford Jr. College, satellite
Campus, Mineral Wells, TX.
--Ages 6 -2 / class limit 15 / always full.
--Six week class.
--Curriculum / pens pencils, paper / lines and shading /water
color with $2.00 water color set / color murals, chalk / wirking
from imagination (not copying from books and no home work) outside
period of observation and drawing from things found in nature.
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- 1984, Instructor: Oil painting
Technique:
- --Open to all ages /six classes.
--Crazy Water Art Center, Mineral Wells, TX
--Completing a painting using wet in to wet oil paint and glazing.
--Assisting students in sketching the image.
--assisting students regarding mixing paints, setting up color
pallet, applying paint and blending, touch-ups and glazing in
corrections and additions to details.
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- 1990 - 2000 , Instructor:
Oil painting techniques
/ various private instructions in drawing and painting,
Paul McMillan Studio, Taos, NM.
--Beginner to expert. basic understanding of image, vanishing
point/s, color theory, laying out a pallette, tools and basic
equipment, teaching by example and assisting in students in starting
a painting /where to stop at one point and how to restart or
go to next area of painting /how to and where to start the next
section of a painting and blend in a new section on to dried
section of a painting, i.e. the stages of execution in the direction
of completing a painting. Preliminary drawing and vanishing points
in the sketch. Discuss/paint-how to achieve atmosphere in the
painted image of a landscape and separate objects of the same
height in the distance. A study and discussion of light shadow
and atmosphere in the drawing and and painted image. Disassembling
masterworks and understand the vanishing points and hidden vanishing
points in various landscape, figurative, and still life. Deconstructing
paintings to in order to study approach / paint application /
execution strategy. How to create luminosity in the painted image
/ moonlight, candle light, and just what it is that makes a painted
image work in the eye., vingieting, (corner-darkening), image
contrast, and the use of dark on light as a means of dramatic
effect. Why the subject matter is the first and most important
step in considering a painting as a means of expression. Basic
art / painting appreciation through understanding paintings as
well as making paintings. To enrich our lives and community in
regard to enjoying, appreciating and creating painted subjects
which challenge and contribute to the human spirits beautiful
gift of expression through art.
--All phases of oil painting and drawing.
--approx 30 students over 10 years.
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- 2001, Instructor: Landscape
painting workshop:
--Nittney Art Association: State College, PA
--Landscape painting / Oil painting / Wet in to wet technique
/ Sky-clouds, atmosphere, distant objects, foreground, plants
etc., color mixing, pallette arrangement, blending.
--complete a painting / 4 workshops / 3 hour sessions / 10 people.
--We all painted the same landscape subject, i.e. follow me style
and I'll assist / instruct each individual while the other students
can benefit from observing the various different successes, fixes
and tools of the trade as the painting evolves through various
stages of blendings, tie in sections in the pursuit of completing
a painting. How to look at the process of painting as an opportunity
for discovery and learning in the joyful act of making paintings.
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- 2001, Instructor: Landscape
Painting Workshop:
--Hundington Art association: Hundington, PA.
--Landscape painting / Oil painting / Wet in to wet technique
/ Sky-clouds, atmosphere, distant objects, foreground, plants
etc., color mixing, pallette arrangement, blending.
--complete a painting / 4 workshops / 3 hour sessions / 15 people-members.
--We all painted the same landscape subject, i.e. follow me style
and I'll assist / instruct each individual while the other students
can benefit from observing the various different successes, fixes
and tools of the trade as the painting evolves through various
stages of blendings, tie in sections in the pursuit of completing
a painting. How to look at the process of painting as an opportunity
for discovery and learning in the joyful act of making paintings.
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- 2009 -2010, Instructor, Oil
painting / various private instructions in drawing and painting.
McMillan Art Canter, Ithaca, NY (Paul McMillan-Owner).
--Weekly oil painting classes offered / seasonal
--From beginner to expert / individual instruction and small
workshops.
--sole proprietor / Gallery Curator / Instructor / Space Rental
/ Concerts.
--Approx, 20 students over 2 years.
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- 2015 Instructor: Oil Painting:
- --Wilkinsburgh Public Library,
Pittsburgh, PA.
- --Creative Aging in America's
Libraries (The mission of Lifetime Arts is to encourage creative
aging by promoting the inclusion of professional arts programs
in organizations that serve older adults).
- --Instruction in oil painting,
8 weeks, 2 hours weekly.
- --Complete oil painting, assist
class particapants with their choice of subject.
- --Demonstrate and assist in
learning oil painting techniques.
- --16 students over 50, many
who never painted.
- --Celebrating expression in
a painted medium!
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