As an instructor with over 30 years of teaching experience, Memphis artist Andre LeMoyne Miller believes the natural progression of the individual soul is to create. After a long career in education, Andre decided to focus full-time on his passion. As an illustrator, Andre primarily seeks to produce and create images that his clients find awe-inspiring and successful. While he uses a variety of materials and processes, he is most adept at using acrylic paints and graphite.
Today, his originals and reproductions can be found across Asia, Europe, and the United States. Andre’s work most often takes a critical view of social, political, and cultural issues, from the “Black Experience” in America. He finds himself deconstructing—destroying if necessary—traditional, non provocative images and replacing them with more honest treatments. Andre’s work has engaged in subjects as diverse as the Civil Rights Movement, Delta blues and jazz music, cultural imagery, and a series dedicated to the historical Orange Mound community in Memphis, Tennessee. In 2023, Andre Miller completed work on his three-year-long acrylic-on-canvas series paying homage to Robert Johnson.
“The Redemption of a Delta Bluesman: Robert Johnson,” is currently on display at Gallery Albertine, located at 55 South Main, Memphis, TN. The collection consists of 29 paintings that focuses on a narrative of the life and legacy of the fabled musician known as the “King of the Delta Blues.” The show will continue from now through the next two months.