James Surls

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James Surls, Me, Knife, Diamond and Flower, pine, poplar and steel, 1999, El Paso Museum of Art
James Surls, Me, Knife, Diamond and Flower, pine, poplar and steel, 1999, El Paso Museum of Art

James Surls (born April 19, 1943) is an American modernist sculptor. He earned a BS from Sam Houston State University and an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 1998, he moved from Splendora, Texas to Carbondale, 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), the El Paso Museum of Art (El Paso, Texas), the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art (University of Oklahoma), the Meadows Museum (Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas), the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (Memphis, Tennessee), the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Fort Worth, Texas) and the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC.) are among the public collections holding work by James Surls.

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  • 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.

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