TAWA at 45
The Exhibition
Elizabeth McCue
Ball of Leaves (maquette)
patined cast bronze, 1995; 16″h x 16″w x 16″d
Elizabeth Miller McCue works thematically and predominantly in bronze castings ranging in scale from gallery to corporate, public, and site-specific commissions. She studied Southeast Asian archaeology at Vassar College and at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, England. Studio training was in New York at the Art Students League and the New York Studio School.
She has been awarded seven grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, six from the NY State Council on the Arts, two from the John D. Rockefeller III Fund, four from the American Film Institute, and one from the Japan Foundation. Exhibition venues included Max Hutchinson Gallery, Lincoln Center and the Asia Society, NYC; the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii; and WNET (PBS NYC) and Brooklyn Public Television broadcasts.
Included in over 30 corporate and private collections nationally, she has completed 29 site-specific public art projects and corporate and private commissions, her first in 1995 for the Corporate Headquarters of Salomon, Inc, at the now former 7 World Trade Center, NYC. A Leeway Foundation grant provided additional funding for her installation at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA. In 2015 she was awarded the commission for the East Tower Lobby of the Park Towne Place Museum District Residences, Philadelphia, PA, and the Sustainability Award commission for the Hotel Association of New York City. She has had ten solo exhibitions and participated in over 85 group exhibitions in the US.
She has been hosted by art galleries and organizations in Switzerland, Spain, and the United States. Her work was selected for Schiffer Publishing’s 100 Artists of the Mid-Atlantic and the internationally focused Green Art: Trees, Leaves, and Roots. Elected to the National Association of Women Artists, the Sculptors Guild in New York, and Phi Beta Kappa, she is a Founding Member of the Arts & Cultural Council of Bucks County. In 2013, she was elected as a Trustee of the Trenton Museum Society, Trenton, NJ and has recently been elected to the Board of Directors of New Hope Arts, New Hope, PA.
“Working directly from nature I explore a synthesis of abstraction and realism. My training in working from life will never leave me; it will always govern my sense of proportion and structure, line, space, and volume. A new voice spoke to me over 30 years ago with my move from New York City to Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was the land and the river. It spoke a language I had never known but spoke a secret language to my heart. The contemplation of the expressive figure gave way to the perception and experience of life in a glorious landscape. It said this is home. Throughout every season this landscape of rolling hills, lush woods, multi-hued broad pastures, and the slowly flowing Delaware River is breathtaking. Plunge into the silence of the woods and you are filled with enchantment, the canopy a cathedral. Sculpture brings the primacy of touch into our world of computer and television screens.”