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An example of work by Carol Miller
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Biography from AskART:
| The following, submitted September 2004 and updated February 2007, is
from the artist whose studio is in the Pedregal suburb of Mexico City:
Carol
Miller was born in Los Angeles but went to live in Mexico a half
century ago, from where she has been for many years a free-lance travel
writer, a foreign correspondent for Life Magazine during the early
sixties, author and translator. For the past four decades, she has been
a sculptress with over two-hundred individual and group shows.
In
addition she is a photographer and scholar; and through travel and
research, has become an authority on some world cultures including the
Mayan people. She is an active member of the Society for American
Archaeology (SAA), where she serves on the Media Relations Committee;
and the Institute of Maya Studies (IMS); and she sits on the Board of
Advisors at "Exploring Solutions Past", connected with El Pilar, an
archaeological reserve for Maya flora and fauna in Belize. This great
Classic Period site is further described in Miller's "Belize, An
Interruption of the Jungle".
She creates bronze sculpture by the
lost wax method, devoted exclusively to stylzed figures of men, women,
children and animals, often in couples or groups of two or
three,
with emphasis on movement and intense emotional content. Faces,
however, are devoid of features. Though many other artists resort to
this ploy today, when Carol Miller began her career, nearly a
half-century ago, this was an innovation, which merited much comment
among art critics and the cultural press of the day.
The
artist feels that "only God creates portraits" so leaves the features
to the viewer's imagination, expressing feeling, sensation, sympathy
and identification through body language.
Originally (and still)
a journalist and writer, Miller began her career in art as a result of
an interview with the late Mexican sculptress Charlotte Yazbek, who
appeared in a spread confected by Miller for Life Magazine in the early
60's, while Yazbek was exhibiting at the New York World's Fair. Yazbek
encouraged Miller to try her hand at sculpture and made her studio,
clay and materials available.
Though Miller came to Mexico
from the States in the early 50's, as a writer, and became by turns a
publicist, foreign correspondent, translator, photographer and
researcher initially devoted to Mexico's ancient past, she still
exhibits her dark green bronzes, that are recognizable figures and a
tangible message in art. Miller's sculpture is inspired essentially in
the history and mythology of cultures she studies, in order to
examine what she calls "their cultural convergence", a phenomenon that
has led her to form a vast library and to travel to over 90 countries.
From March 17 2007 to June 10, 2007, an exhibition, Carol Miller, 40 years in Sculpture, was held at the Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City.
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