""What connects this work to my current practice is the use of craft and domestic imagery. My older work also explored the intersection of various cultural signifiers," Millett told 48hills."
""The thing I love most about the Bay Area is how diverse it is-culturally, economically, ecologically, and spiritually. The lifestyle here feels liberated and casual. And saturated with color," she said."
Adia Millett works across fabric, glass, sculpture, painting, and large-scale commissions to examine interconnection through bold geometry, vibrant color, and craft-based imagery. She plans large-scale textiles and murals by creating pencil drawings, photographing them, and importing into Adobe Fresco and Procreate to test colors, textures, and compositions, using those apps also as presentation platforms. Paintings primarily use acrylics, spray paint, and latex. Earlier Miniatures (2000–2011) share a throughline with current work via craft and domestic imagery and engagement with cultural signifiers. Raised in Pasadena, educated at UC Berkeley and CalArts (MFA 2000), she lived in New York, returned to the Bay Area in 2010, relocated to Pinole, and maintains a studio near Lake Merritt in Oakland. Bay Area diversity and figures such as James Baldwin, Octavia Butler, Alice Coltrane, and Rosie Lee Tompkins inform her practice.
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