SARA CEDAR MILLER

FLOWERS / OCEAN

In this series of abstract photographs, Sara Cedar Miller uses flowers to capture their visual essence rather than render their botanical detail in order to arrive at their pure color, light, and form. Her abstract images of the ocean were taken with similar formal concerns: the blurred movement of waves contrasted with the sharp calligraphic drawing created by sunlight glinting off the rushing waters. In both series she invites the viewer into a space of contemplation and surprise, offering an ethereal, atmospheric, sensual and visually stunning experience. I am drawn to what is fleeting, whispered, and magical.

Sara Cedar Miller has been a fine art photographer for over fifty decades and has exhibited widely. She had a book of her work,Sara Cedar Miller, published by Blue Sky Gallery funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Until her retirement, Miller was the photographer and historian of Central Park for the Central Park Conservancy for forty years and has written and photographed the Park in four celebrated books.

Miller cares deeply for her Hampton Bays residence and the natural beauty of East End of Long Island. She is a proud member and supporter of the Peconic Land Trust that works to save threatened Long Island working farms, natural lands and its heritage. Miller and the William Ris Gallery will be donating a portion of the sales to benefit the Peconic Land Trust.