Marcie Miller Gross makes site responsive objects, drawings and installations informed by the spatial and conceptual conditions of a place. Created through an intimate material connection, her cumulative works made of wool industrial felt reflect her interest in the traces of time and evidence of people on a place. Her recent exhibitions include: In Place, Haw Contemporary, The Power of Place, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, Periodic Table/Imagined Spaces, Kansas City, MO, Site Parallels, Haw Contemporary, Linden, MidAmerica Arts Alliance, Kansas City, MO. Other exhibition venues include Cranbrook Art Museum, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
Recent projects and commissions include: Ucross Foundation Fellowship & Residency, WY, Health Education Building / University of Kansas Medical Center, School of Business / University of Kansas, GlogauAIR Residency & Open Studios, Berlin, Germany. She has received Honors that include: Women to Watch, Finalist, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC & Kansas City, Charlotte Street Foundation Fellowship, MidAmerica/National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowship, Studios Inc. Residency through the Nicholson Foundation, and Allied Arts and Craftsmanship Award, AIA / Kansas City.
Her work has received reviews and writings in: Art in America, Sculpture, ID Magazine, Kansas City Star, Politiken, Copenhagen, with publications including Marking 20 Years: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and 10: Charlotte Street Foundation 10th Anniversary. Her work is held in numerous collections including American Century Investments, Missouri Bank and Trust, Barkley, Helix Architecture + Design, American Institute of Architects / Kansas City, and private collections in New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles, Detroit and Kansas City.
Miller Gross received a Master of Fine Arts at Cranbrook Academy of Art, and has held teaching appointments at Kansas City Art Institute and University of Kansas. She is represented by Haw Contemporary in Kansas City.