About Us

ARTISTOKRAT Gallery was founded in 2005 by Klair & William Miller.

The mission of ARTistoKrat Gallery is to provide member artists a venue to exhibit their work that is widely accessible and to provide internet users everywhere a virtual tour of works of art without leaving the comfort of their own home.

Many of the works are available for purchase in their original form as well as high resolution digital prints.

The works span several decades and takes the viewer to both real and imagined destinations.

 

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About Klair Miller

EXHIBITIONS

  • Since
  • 2005
  • 2007
  • 2006
    • Artistokrat.com - Design for On-line Exhibit of Paintings, Prints & Drawings, World Wide Web
  • 2005
    • Landscapes & Escapes - Paintings, Prints & Drawings by Klair & William Miller, Café Ole, Philadelphia, PA
  • 2002
  • 2001
    • Figuration - Invitational Exhibition, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
    • Meaning in the Mundane - Juried Alumnae Exhibition, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA
    • Drawing Nature In Venezuela - Exhibition, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA
  • 2000
    • A Show Of Hands - Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA
  • 1997
    • Kidopolus - Anna B. Pratt Elementary School, Permanent Sculptural Installation, Collaboration with Artist In Residence and Art Students, Philadelphia, PA
  • 1996
    • Where Are We Going? - Young Artists At The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Collaboration with Students, Philadelphia, PA
  • 1995
    • Murals Reflection Prevention - Collaboration with Students,
      • Capitol Hill Rotunda, Washington, D.C.
      • Free Library of Philadelphia, West Oak Lane Branch, Philadelphia, PA
      • Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
      • Super Saturday, West Oak Lane, Philadelphia, PA
  • 1993
    • Philadelphia Murals Project - Collaboration with Students
      • Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA
      • Federal Reserve Bank, Philadelphia, PA
      • Prints in Progress, Philadelphia, PA
      • Exceptional Painters II - Collaboration with Students, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA
  • 1992
    • Exceptional Painters - Collaboration with Students, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA
    • Read My Clay, Collaboration with Students, Philadelphia Free Library, Main Branch
    • Kids Keep Philadelphia Clean, Collaboration with Students, Throughout Philadelphia on SEPTA Car Cards
  • 1991
    • Cultural Diversity - Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia PA
  • 1990
    • Artist/Teacher Teacher/Artist - Levy Gallery for the Arts in Philadelphia, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA
    • 25x25 Folio # 2 - The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
    • Young Artists Workshop At The Head House Craft Fair, Philadelphia, PA
  • 1989
    • Centennial Art - Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
  • 1988
    • Timepieces & Moments - Solo Exhibition, Elkins Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
    • Over & Under The Water, Ceramic Tile Mural, Anna B. Pratt Elementary School, Philadelphia, PA
  • 1987
    • Objets Dards - Levy Gallery for the Arts in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
    • Transparent Thought - Alternative Space Group Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
  • 1987 to 2000
    • Young Artists, Exhibitions by the Students of the School District of Philadelphia, Museum Of The Civic Center & The Board Of Education Administration Building

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About William J. Miller


William J. Miller II is a self taught* artist who has experimented with many media including metal, glass, paint, all manner of drawing materials, as well as a variety of mixed media. William considers the creative use of anything available found here on earth, and does not consider convention as limits on his many different creative uses.


Though there are still slides of some of William's work from the past, many more pieces have been lost, leaving no documentation.


William's main interest lies in painting with oil. He follows his father and grandfather, who were both artists. William Sr., his father, in addition to being a painter was a world class and award winning wood carver recognized by Ducks Unlimited* for his lifelike, meticulous and balanced decoys. William Sr. also carved song birds and gun stocks. Charles Miller, William's grandfather, painted, worked in gold leaf, and wrote poetry. Both used fly tying and taxidermy for their artistic endeavors. William was surrounded by their influences as a child. As he has always said, it is something he must do, [make art] and has been driven to do just that since childhood. 


William has been in many shows in Pennsylvania, and even one in New Jersey, but has never really pursued art as a serious career choice. He has tried to keep his ideas free from the influences of other artists and artistic concepts. His fear has always been their/others' subliminally burnt imagery would somehow manifest itself in his own art. He prefers to not study others' ideas, techniques of process, and art. Doing and finding his own ideas and technical ways through experimentation have been his teacher, in an attempt to keep his studies as pure to his own original art development and process as possible. William says it is nearly impossible in today's world, where we are bombarded by endless works of art from other sources. "It's not that I don't enjoy other peoples' art, or their work, it's just that I don't want to use them to help my thoughts and ideas out, because I am very creatively self contained as a whole" 

 
" I love Salvador Dali, Monet, Van Gogh, and many of the great modern day artists' works and ideas. Innovative performing artists like Blue Man Group and others are unbelievable productions. They are all lovely, exciting...... actually I love it all, including the music of many. It is so exciting to see and hear these type of media. Shivers......... is a term that comes to mind" 


William studied jewelry for one semester under Al Anderson at Penn State, where he learned many precious and exotic metal skills, and techniques, including cast silver and gold processes, centrifugal casting, and other skills necessary to create fine jewelry. This lead him into unusual knife making, and other metal projects. He included metal components in some pieces created in glass construction later when he studied for a year under Bonnie Biggs at Tyler School of Art. Bonnie, a world renowned artist whose work is in the collection of the Corning Museum of Art, taught him skills of glass construction, slump fusion, slumped glass, cast glass, etching, polishing, sand blasting techniques. It was at Tyler that William met his wife Klair. He and Klair have collaborated on many pieces of art since.   
William is from the Central Pennsylvania, Lock Haven area, and still owns a house back there in the big hemlocks near Haneyville. The influence of this area can be found in many of his works.


William maintains Accrue Welding, a welding company which specializes in Ski Area Maintenance. He has consciously chosen work that presents risks many do not encounter which keeps him at a high level of attentiveness. At age fourty-seven he is  looking at art as something to work on now, as he mellows with age.


He served as a guide on the Lehigh River for five years. He was a dirt bike rider then a trials bike rider for years when he was younger. He also enjoyed dual sport riding. An accident in August 2003 has imposed serious limits on his true outdoor loves. He was a logger and a heavy equipment operator. He has even installed lifts in the rain forest in the Lesser Antilles in the island nation of Dominica. All this he has done for fun and excitement, and profit, which was the driving force behind whatever he did, including working in three shipyards. Not all experiences were always fun, but all were very eventful. Whatever could be said about Billy, you can never say he didn't experiment with adventure. Carpe diem is and has been his mantra for years.


Billy's support of other unknown artists like himself is evident and can be found at Bill and Klair's website, www.ARTistoKrat.com. The site, created by Klair, is a developing work in progress.
Bill's support for unknown artists was proven as far back as 1978 when he put together an exhibition for the Women's Center of Lock Haven for Mothers Day. He gathered his friends from the area to collectively show there for their profit, "something I still to this day don't know if it actually help them or not, because I moved to Vermont before the show was finished."


Bill is turning his attention to the arts again, and says it is time to stop playing around with extremes, and express his experiences through art again in a more steady flow of work, which has been put on hold long enough. Bill is poised to make himself known. Regardless of whether or not the art world wants to pay attention, it will make him happy to know he has made someone somewhere think, feel, know, or just plan happy to see his art before their eyes. That is as it always has been since the first day he ever even picked up a crayon......... which he still uses to this day.


" I love the colors of everything around me, this world is a very beautiful place to be. Please let's not for one second look past that statement as anything more than child like imagery so as to not see the ugliness that always does surround us."
So...that said:
Be happy while you're living,
For you're a long time dead.
- Scottish Proverb


1. self taught - beyond secondary public education with the exception of isolated short term coursework in jewelry at Penn State and glass at Tyler School of Art

2. Lock Haven Express, January 2007 obituary

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