Representation

Miele Fine Arts, LLC. Washington, D.C.

1969   Born Bronx, NY

1990   Scoula Lorenzo Di Medici Istituto di Studi Italiani, Florence, Italy Intensive academic study in Fine Arts, Art Theory and Art History

1991   BA The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, Degree in Studio Art, Concentration in Painting

Graduation with Honors

2022  Recipient of the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art  Bank Grant with the acquisition of  “Sekyia with Helga and Nefretitti”, oil on panel, into Permanent  Public Collection

2022   Recipient of The Arts and Humanities Fellowship, excellence in Artistic Discipline,  The District Of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities

2021   Painting “Reflections on the Potomac” acquired into Permanent Pubic Collection, The Italian America Museum of  D.C., Washington, DC

2021   Recipient of the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art  Bank Grant with the acquisition of two paintings into Permanent Public Collection

2020   Recipient of The Arts and Humanities Fellowship, excellence in Artistic Discipline,  The District Of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities

2019   Recipient of The Arts and Humanities Fellowship, excellence in Artistic Discipline,  The District Of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities

2019   Recipient of the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art  Bank Grant with the acquisition of one drawing and one painting into Permanent    Public Collection

2018   Recipient of the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Grant with the acquisition of two paintings into Permanent Public Collection

2018   Visiting Artist and Lecturer Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria Campus, funded with a grant request by Professor Stacy J. Slaten,  Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing

2018   Participant on panel discussion, “Urban Monopoly DC Arts and Mass Gentrification”, The George Washington University Textile Museum  auditorium as part of my solo exhibition “Urban Monopoly” at Gallery 102. Honorarium funded by the Corcoran School of Art at The George Washington  University

2014   Artwork selected for the annual book publication of “Studio Visit Magazine” by Juror Trevor Richardson, Spring 2014 edition

2012   Artwork selected for the annual book publication of “American Art Collector   Juried Competition of New York” Alcove Books, Berkeley CA

2011   Artwork selected for the annual book publication of “American Art Collector   Juried Competition of New York” Alcove Books, Berkeley CA

2010   Invited by “Su Grubu”, The Water Group, as a guest of honor to participate in The International Arts Biennal, Izmir International Fair Center, Izmir, Turkey, May 4-11

2010   Nominee the “25th Annual Mayor’s Arts Awards”, Excellence in Artistic Discipline

2009    Artwork selected for the annual book publication of “American Art Collector  Juried Competition of New York” Alcove Books, Berkeley, CA

2009   Semifinalist  “The Bethesda Painting Awards”

2007   BOFA DC Urban Arts Alliance honorary committee member

2006   Guest Lecturer and Presenter to Fairfax County Public School Secondary Art Teachers

2006   Drawing “Alley Rear Corcoran” acquired into permanent pubic collection “The  HeArt of D.C.” The Wilson Building, City Hall, by the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities

2006   Cummings MFA grant recipient

2005   “Friends of The Corcoran” studio visit

2005   Agora Gallery representation, 415 West Broadway, New York, NY

2001   Juror for Artoconecto, recipient of City Arts Grant, the National Endowment for The Arts, National Juried exhibitions “Hermione” and “Lust and Revenge in the Year of the Snake”

1999   Guest Lecturer and Visiting Artist The University of North Iowa, Waterloo  Advanced Painting, Painting I, and Drawing II

2021  “DC Art Now, 2021” is the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities annual  exhibition of selected work by finalists for the Art Bank Program grant, Washington, DC,  October 11 – December 19

2020   “DC Art Now, 2020” is the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities’ annual exhibition of selected work by finalists for the Art Bank Program grant. Washington, DC., November 16 – December 11

2020   “The Figure Interpreted Redux” The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, March 5- April 2

2019   Solo Exhibition, “All Good Things are Wild and Free” The Women’s National Democratic Club, Washington, DC, May 4 – September 10

2018   Solo Exhibition, “Through the Looking Glass, Urban Perspectives” Honfleur Gallery, Washington, DC, March 16 – April 21

2017   Solo Exhibition, “Quieting Change, Stilling Motion”, The Schleshinger Center, Forum Gallery, Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, VA,  September  22 – November  5

2017   Solo Exhibition, “Urban Monopoly”, Gallery 102 The Corcoran  School of Art at The George Washington University, Summer Solo Series,  Washington, DC, July 3 – 26

2017   “Outside Narratives, Modern Stories of the Outside World”, The Catholic University of America, Washington DC, February 20 – March 31

2015   Selected Alumnae Exhibition, “Crafting a Legacy”, The Catholic University of  America, Washington, DC, October 23 – December 4

2015   Solo Exhibition, “Paintings”, Gallery Plan B, Washington, DC, June 2 – July 19

2015   Solo Exhibition, “Meridians”, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA, March 1- April 10

2015   “10 x 10 Anniversary Exhibition”, Gallery Plan B, Washington, DC, February 18 – March 22

2014   “Man Made”, Gallery Plan B, Washington, D.C., October 15 – November 23

2014   “Art Expo NYC”, Pier 94, New York, NY, April 4 – 6

2014   Solo Exhibition, “Works by Regina Miele”, Gallery Plan B, Washington, DC, February 19 – March 23

2013   “Elevate “, Wright Gallery, Kona, Hawaii, October 26 – November 26

2013   “Caged In”, The George Washington University, Gallery 102, Washington, DC, September 15 – October 4

2013   Solo Exhibition, “Movements”, Union Arts DC, Washington, DC, July 19 – August 30

2013   “24+24 Exhibition”, Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD, February 9 –March 6

2012   Solo Exhibition, “A Journey to Proximity”, ARTS@1830, Washington, DC, November 10 – January 26

2011   “New York Arts Beijing”, Artwork to remain in China as part of a Permanent Collection, May – June

2011   “2 Contemplate 2”, DC Loft Gallery, Washington, D.C., January 21 – February 19

2010   “International Biennale Artists Miami”, Nina Torres Fine Art, Miami, FL, December 1-20

2010   “Social Networking”, DC Loft Gallery, Washington, DC, November 16 – December 16

2010   “United States Florence Biennale Artists”, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY, October 1 – October 15

2010   “21+21 Exhibition”, Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD, February 12 – March 6

2009   “Florence Biennale”, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy, December 5 –13

2008   “Celebrating Women’s History Month, Women Artists in the District”,Martin Luther King Library, Washington, DC,  March 1 – April 1

2007   “Period Pieces” Baltimore ARTSCAPE 2007, The Eubie Blake Museum and Cultural Center, Baltimore, MD July 14 – August 25

2005   “Enlightened Perspectives”, Agora Gallery, SOHO, New York, NY, Featured Painter, February 25 – March 3

2002   “Curator’s Choice Exhibition”, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, selected by Tosha Grantham, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, January 24 – February 5

2001   “Seventieth Annual Exhibition”, The Newington Cropsey Museum, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, National Juried Exhibition, May 6 – May 23

2001   “International  Winter Show”, Caelum Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY, January 16 – 27

1999   “Portraits by Women” Woman-Made Gallery, Chicago, IL. National Juried Exhibition, April 3 – 24

1997   “Fifty Washington Artists”,  Addison Ripley Gallery, Washington, DC, September 8 – 20

2015   Paige Rense Noland, Editor Emeritus of Architectural Digest, to paint her portrait

2014   The National Theater, Washington, D.C. to create a painting for use in all of their print and online media for the 2014-15 Season

2013   Robert Higdon Design, LLC to create watercolor renderings as the driving visuals of his website

2007   Immaculate Heart Academy to paint three four by six foot oils on linen depicting the life of Mary

2003   The Church of the Annunciation, Paramus, N.J. to create a contemporary oil  painting depicting “The Annunciation” as part of a permanent installation in the Chapel

2003   The University of Maryland Medical Systems, Baltimore, to design and paint eleven oil paintings for a large municipal area

2002   Walter TV and Kronkite Ward to design and create paintings in a Renaissance style, to be used as stills in the Discovery Channel production “Dante’s Inferno”

The Italian American Museum of DC, Permanent Collection

The District of Columbia Art Bank, Permanent Collection

The Schar Cancer Institute , Permanent Collection

The Costar Group, Washington, DC

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart and Sullivan, LLP.

Robert Higdon Design, LLC.

The John A. Wilson Building Permanent Art Collection, Washington, DC

Bob Schieffer, CBS Studios, New York, NY

Yorum Shohamy, Jerusalem, Israel

Darrell Riparteau Architects, Washington, DC

Myriam-Norris-Zigrand, Luxemborg City, Luxemborg

Lorraine Botsacos, Art Consultants, New York, NY

Review

Gallery and Studio Magazine

April 2005

By Maureen Flynn

Regina Miele works in a manner for which the most accurate term is poetic realism. What romanticism exists in her work is created through her careful attention to what actually exists rather than through imaginative invention or  fantasy. And the effectiveness of this approach is everywhere evident in Miele’s recent exhibition at Agora Gallery, 415 West Broadway, in Soho.

Even while adhering to the evidence at hand, however, Miele creates magical atmospheres and auras akin in some ways to Loren MacIver, well known in the 1950’s, whose work has been featured in several recent exhibitions. Indeed, like MacIver, Miele has a way of enveloping all of her pictures in atmospheres that create the gentle inner glow of something fondly remembered as well as something fondly observed. Space and light conspire in her exquisitely refined oils to create the sense of genuine epiphany in a way that few other artists are capable of doing who work only with the subject at hand and do not distort it for emotional effect.

In Miele’s painting “Bryant Park”, for example, the elements of the composition are extremely simple, almost minimal: five outdoor chairs positioned in a seemingly random manner on the lawn in a familiar public park in New York City. However the artist creates the sense of a pastoral oasis in the midst of urban miasma with a brush that appears to have been dipped in liquid light. Luminous yellow hues are combined with cool blues (almost reminiscent of Monet’s paintings of his garden in Giverny) to create a sense of transcendence which is made all the more remarkable by the fact that this picture actually depicts an urban setting.

Apparently, Miele is able to imbue any scene with a sense of serenity that makes her paintings delightful anomalies in contemporary art. Her work indicates a singular sensibility with exceptional technical finesse, as seen in a small oil on panel titled “Roof Top” with its panoramic view of clustered houses under a darkening sky, as well as in the much larger oil on linen called “Above Harlem,” where the various furnitures and fixtures of room interior with day light flooding in create a formal composition that while true to its specifics can also function as an austere geometric abstraction.

Miele’s drawings are also extraordinary for her ability to invest the medium of graphite with a painterly finish, particularly in the atmospheric “Alley, 14th Street,” with its subtle, overcast, tonalities. Especially evocative, however, is the oil on linen “Autumnal Equinox,” with its tiny figure in a shadowy landscape contemplating a vast night sky, which projects a sense of nocturnal mystery reminiscent of the German romantic painter Casper David Friedrich. Here, as well as in “Vernal Equinox” and “Winter Solstice,” two tall vertical oils centering on the full figure of a young man in a shadowy interior, Regina Miele, displays a poetic gift which sets her apart as a realist painter with a unique angle of vision.

PRESS

Capitol File Magazine, Summer 2016, named in “Our Portfolio of A List Artists Across America” along with Sam Gilliam and Prince.

“The work maintains an honest sensation, not only of the structural framework of brick, steel, and concrete, but of how light and atmosphere are captured in those spaces. They aren’t as much a way of seeing the city anew but of re-seeing the city through different eyes.”
— John AndersonWashington City Paper, State of the Arts, Spring 2018

In. “Thought the Looking Glass” Miele evocatively depicts the sort of quickly vanishing local warehouse and industrial buildings that once held artists’ studios.”
— Mark Jenkins, April 13, 2018

“Through the Looking Glass” bears a profound witness to the city’s rapid development, a commentary on displacement and who will have access to the city in the future. — Phill Hutinet, Eastside Arts, March 15, 2018

“One of Regina Miele’s principal subjects is sky, cloud-flecked expanses of delicate light and myriad hues. Miele is adept at classical realism, and versatile as well. Color and openness are among the hallmarks of Miele’s work, but she doesn’t require either to craft a striking picture.”
— Mark Jenkins, WAPO, March 14, 2015