Bill Miller

Bill Miller is an American artist best known for his work with discarded linoleum as his medium. He was born in Cleveland in 1962, and attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, where he focused on graphic design. He currently resides in Pittsburgh. Career Early career Early in his career, Miller worked in more traditional media, primarily oil painting, acrylic painting and printmaking. In the early 1990s, while working as the art director for In Pittsburgh Newsweekly, he co-founded the Industrial Arts Co-op. The activist collective experimented with trash or junk art, a subset of found object art made from objects and materials that have been thrown away. The group broke into abandoned buildings, mostly steel mills, where they exhibited art made from scavenged materials. Miller collected linoleum that had been thrown into dumpsters and, using pieces of linoleum, created framed portraits, landscapes and other works.