Katie Miller

I was looking up artists with autism (as I seem to do in my spare time!) and I came across Katie Miller. She is based in Maryland, and makes extremely impressive artwork. A recent series of hers, 'The fancy of BABES', is a range of paintings of young children, deliberately sexualized, with fake tan, belly button rings, make-up, revealing clothing etc. She is interested in the rapidly marketed children's toys that promote this early obsession with image and the forced adult beauty that saturates children. She exaggerates this in her paintings, through 'artistic characterizations of the consumer-driven hype that fuels the commercial sexualization of children' (Smith, J. L., 20011). Miller uses a realist approach, borderline with hyper-realism, but with odd features that definitely keep the viewer intrigued.