Casey Riordan Millard

Casey Riordan Millard (born 1973) is a Cincinnati-based artist working in a variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and publication. Millard's work aims to “create a temporary distraction from the weight of oneself”.[1] She obtained a Bachelor's in Fine Art in 1994 from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.[2]

Work

Millard's artwork has been displayed in various cities and states such as Cincinnati, Ohio, Buffalo,[3] New York, and Chicago, Illinois. The majority of Millard's pieces include her original character, Shark Girl.

Shark Girl

Millard's character, Shark Girl, appears in many of her illustrations, paintings, and sculptures. Shark Girl is a young girl with the head of a shark created in 1999. She was a way for Millard to “reflect her own anxieties”.[4][5] A fiberglass sculpture of Shark Girl was built[6] for the Ohio River Downtown with a $6,000 grant in 2012. Visitors used the piece as a photo-op, turning it to have the Ohio River in the background. Around Easter 2014, visitors began to deface Shark Girl with graffiti. The city left repairs in Millard's hands. Soon after, Aaron Ott, the public art curator at the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo purchased the sculpture and the museum created a fund to maintain it.[4] The sculpture was moved to Buffalo, where it became a popular local landmark.[7][8]

A YouTube video entitled “Come Follow Me” features Shark Girl. The video, created for Millard's 2012 installation at The Contemporary Arts Center's UnMuseum in Cincinnati, Ohio, follows Shark Girl on a journey leading her to a horse which is also featured as a sculpture in the installation. The video is 4 minutes and 11 seconds long and was uploaded to YouTube on February 12, 2013. It features drawings and animation by Millard with editing and co-direction by Ossian Mendoza and music by John Aselin.[9]

Shark Girl is the title character in Millard's 2014 children's book “Shark Girl & Belly Button”.[6]

Exhibitions
Upcoming Exhibitions
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York July 2017
Solo Exhibitions
ArtWorks, Kennedy Heights Arts Center Annex, Cincinnati, Ohio 2016
Albright- Knox Art Gallery, Canalside, Buffalo, New York 2015
Thomas More College, Crestview Hills, Kentucky 2014
Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus, Ohio 2013
Findlay Street Project Space, Cincinnati, Ohio 2013
Cincinnati Recreation Commission, Yeatman's Cove, Cincinnati, Ohio 2013
UnMuseum, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 2012
PAC Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio 2011
Packer-Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2011
Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI, Indianapolis, Indiana 2011
Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio 2009
Packer-Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2008
The Carnegie, Covington, Kentucky 2008
Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2006
Group Exhibitions
Faculty Art Show, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 2016
Escape Hatch Collective, Kennedy Heights Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 2015
The Fine Art of Illustration, Gallery One One, Cincinnati, Ohio 2014
Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, Indiana 2013
SOFA Chicago, with the Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2012
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin 2010
PAC Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio 2010
Summerfair Group Exhibition, Funkes Fired Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio 2010
For the Birds, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky 2010
20 Years/20 Artists, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 2010
UTurn Gallery, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Cincinnati, Ohio 2010
Evanston Arts Center, Once Upon a Time and Now, Evanston, Illinois 2009
Fuller Craft Museum, The Perfect Fit, Brockton, Massachusetts 2009
Fine arts Fund, Enjoy the Arts 20/20 Festival, Cincinnati, Ohio 2008
Columbus Metropolitan Library, Ohio Arts Council juried show, Columbus, Ohio 2008
Art Chicago, with the Packer-Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2008
Bridge Art Fair, with the Packer-Schopf Gallery, Miami, Florida 2007
Music Show II, through Publico Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio 2007
Art Chicago, with the Packer-Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2007
Gen Art, Ignite! 2006 Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 2006
Art Chicago, with the Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2006
University of Cincinnati, WordArt, Cincinnati, Ohio 2005
Aron Packer Gallery, Four, Chicago, Illinois 2005
The Affordable Art Fair, with the Aron Packer Gallery, NYC, New York 2004
Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2003

References
  1. "Casey Riordan Millard". caseyriordanmillard.com. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  2. "Design Revival". AIGA Cincinnati. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  3. Hooper, Ben (27 August 2015). "Bizarre 'Shark Girl' sculpture celebrates 'birthday' in Buffalo". UPI. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  4. "Artist's 'Shark Girl' finds new success in book, Buffalo". Cincinnati.com. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  5. Hirtzel, Ashley (30 October 2014). "How 'Shark Girl' came to be". WBFO. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  6. "'Shark Girl' sculptor Casey Riordan Millard to speak at Albright-Knox Art Gallery". The Buffalo News. 14 October 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  7. "Erie County: Newest public art offering brings colorful greeting to international audience". Niagara Frontier Publications. 8 October 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  8. Cameron, Dell (15 October 2015). "This horrifying goat-man mascot wants you to start recycling". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  9. Casey R. Millard (2013-02-12), Shark Girl, Come Follow Me, 2012, retrieved 2017-03-04
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