| James Surls, American (1943 - )
James Surls is one of the most preeminent artists that the state of Texas has produced. His wood-and-steel sculptures are in the collections of the major art museums in the state, and many in the nation, and he has placed many commissioned pieces in major private and corporate collections. Surls was given the Living Legend Award by the Dallas Visual Art Center in 1993. In 1991, he was named Texas Artist of the Year by the Art League of Houston. In 1999, Surls had solo exhibitions at the Marlborough Chelsea Gallery in New York City (catalog), the Glassel School of Art of the Houston Museum of Fine Art, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Gerald Peters Gallery in Dallas, and at the Barbara Davis Gallery in Houston. Surls's most recent group show was with Charmaine Locke at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass Village, Colorado.
Surls now lives and works near Aspen, Colorado.
Curriculum Vitae
JAMES SURLS
American
Biography:
Born April 19, 1943
MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art
1979 N.E.A. Fellowship
1991 Texas Artist of the Year
1993 “Living Legend Award” Dallas Contemporary Art Center
1998 Moved from Splendora, Texas to Carbondale, Colorado
Married to Charmaine Locke and has seven daughters.
Selected Museum and Solo Exhibitions:
2004 “Drawings & Sculptures”, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
2003 “In the Meadows”, Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX
1999 “Innate Contours: The Drawings – James Surls” Museum of Fine Art Houston, TX
“New Bronzes” Marblorough Gallery Chelsea, New York, NY
“Walking with Diamonds”, El Paso Museum of At, El Paso, TX
1997 “James Surls, Swimming in Forever”, R. Don Cowan Fine & Performing Arts Center, The University of Texas, Tyler, TX
1991 The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
1987 Cranbrook Academy Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Pittsburg Center for the Arts, PA; traveled to Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
1984 “Visions: James Surls – 1974 – 1984” Traveled: Dallas Museum of Fine Art, TX, La Jolla Museum, CA, Seattle Art Museum, WA
1977 “James Surls: Sculpture” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX Selected Group Exhibitions:
2004 “Cranbrook Art Museum:100 Treasures”, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
I 2001 “Inside and Out – Contemporary Sculpture” Bass Art Museum, Miami, FL
“Alexander Calder and James Surls”, Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art Dallas, TX
2000 “Contemporary American Sculpture”, Monte Carlo International Sculpture Exhibition
1999 “The Creative World of Charmaine Locke and James Surls”, Anderson Ranch, Patton-Malott and Gartner Gallery, Snowmass, CO and University of Wyoming Art Museum, Larimer, WY
1994 “Ideas and Objects: Selected Drawings and Sculptures from the Permanent Collection “ Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y.
1993 “Eye to Eye”, The Art of Charmaine Locke and James Surls, Art Center of Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX
1989 “The Boat Show: Fantastic Vessels, Fictional Voyages”, Renwich Gallery, The Smithonsian, Washington D.C.
1985 “Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1979 “Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1977 “Nine Artists: Theodorn Awards”, The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Selected Publications: 2001 “Gift to the Nation”, Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies Forward by Jo Carole Lauder and Ann L. Gund 2000 “Texas – 150 Works from The Museum of Fine Art” Published by Abrams, New York, NY 1999 ”James Surls: Walking with Diamonds” by Susie Kadil, El Paso Museum of Art 1999 “Innate Contours: Drawing of James Surls” by Valerie Olsen, The Glassell, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX 1999 “In Company: Robert Greeley’s Collaborations”, Castellani Art Museum of Niagra University, New York Public Library, Green Library, Stanford, CA
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