E l i z a b E t h Mi l l E r Mc c u E
Builds in
Connect the dots of any artist’s career— indeed, any career—and you’re more likely to create a new constellation than a beeline. And just as a constellation is drawn with lines that start and end at the same point, an artist’s path can come around to the spot from which it all began.
Sculptor Elizabeth Miller McCue recollects her childhood as a builder and avid model maker. Although always interested in drawing, painting and sculpture, after earning her Bachelor of Arts from Vassar, she entered a postgraduate degree program in southeast Asian archeology at the University of London. When the career she’d envisioned was thwarted by the Vietnam War, she was fortunate to be recommended by one of her professors to coordinate the Asia Dance Project for the Rockefeller Foundation. In film, video and print, it documented Asian dance sources on the verge of extinction. With its flexible schedule, she could enroll in art school where her training was devoted to life drawing and study of the masters.
“Then I was able to pursue my sculpture and art work,” says Miller McCue in her Yardley studio. With encouragement from her instructors, she continued to develop her visions through perception, examination and experience.
“I think it takes a long time, once you finish art school, to find your own voice,” she shares. “Matisse said it takes about eight years after art school until you can walk into your studio and no longer hear your teachers’ voices. What do you want to say, and how do you want to say it? It’s a big thought process.”
Miller McCue says she found her voice about twenty-five years ago. Since then, there have been more than three dozen awards and grants, seven regional solo exhibitions, and fourteen commissioned site-specific works. A builder once again, she says she puts things together rather than cutting away material as a carver would.
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