- James Surls
James Surls (born April 19, 1943) is an American
modernist sculptor . He earned a BS fromSam Houston State University and an MFA from theCranbrook Academy of Art . In 1998, he moved fromSplendora, Texas toCarbondale, Colorado .He is best known for his large unpainted wooden sculptures that have images burnt into them. He often adds bent steel wires. The
Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, Texas ), theEl Paso Museum of Art (El Paso, Texas ), the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art (University of Oklahoma ), theMeadows Museum (Southern Methodist University ,Dallas, Texas ), theMemphis Brooks Museum of Art (Memphis, Tennessee ), theModern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Fort Worth, Texas ) and theSmithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC. ) are among the public collections holding work by James Surls.References
* Acconci, Vito, "Visions of paradise, installations by Vito Acconci, David Ireland, and James Surls, March 24 through April 29, 1984", Cambridge, Mass., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984.
* Auping , Michael, "Structure to resemblance, work by eight American sculptors, June 13-August 23, 1987", Buffalo, N.Y., Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1987.
* Graze, Sue, "Visions: James Surls, 1974-1984", Dallas, Tex., Dallas Museum of Art, 1984.
* Locke, Charmaine, Leonard Shlain, and James Surls, "Finding balance, reconciling the masculine/feminine in contemporary art and culture", Houston, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, 2006.
* Sultan, Terrie & Eleanor Heartney, "James Surls, the Splendora years, 1977-1997", Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 2005.
* Surls, James, "James Surls, embracing paradox", St. Louis, MO, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 2000.
* Surls, James, Jeanne Lil Chvosta, & Fronia W. Simpson, "James Surls, in the Meadows and beyond", Dallas, Tex., Meadows Museum, 2004.
* Wortz, Melinda, "Face to face, back to back: Jo Harvey Allen, Terry Allen, Milano Kazanjian, Judith E. Simonian, Charmaine Locke, James Surls", Fullerton, CA, Visual Arts Center, California State University, 1984.
* Zimmer, William, "Ancient inspirations, six figurative sculptors: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Reuben Kadish, Diana Moore, Linda Peer, Italo Scanga, James Surls", New York, Independent Curators, 1987.External links
* [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/surls_james.html James Surls in ArtCyclopedia]
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