Sam Houston State University, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Known for
sculptures
Spouse(s)
Martha Ann Gebhart, Linda Samuels, Charmaine Locke
Website
https://jamessurls.com/
James Surls, Me, Knife, Diamond and Flower, pine, poplar and steel, 1999, El Paso Museum of Art
James Arthur Surls (born 1943) is an American modernist artist and educator, known for his large sculptures. He founded the Lawndale Alternative Arts Space at the University of Houston in the 1970s.[1]
^"James Surls, An American Sculptor". AIA Houston. Retrieved 2021-02-03. He graduated from Sam Houston State Teachers College in 1966 and from Cranbrook Academy of Art in1968.
University of Houston in the 1970s. James Arthur Surls was born April 19, 1943, in Terrell, Texas. His father Joe William Surls was a carpenter and a cattle...
Surl or Surls may refer to: JamesSurls (born 1943, American modernist artist Martin Surl, British public servant Surl, North Carolina This disambiguation...
selection with a rare cask tapped weekly. The Moth features art works by JamesSurls, Frank Tolbert, Dmitri Vail and many others. In 2013, Wynne designed...
2006 public sculpture by James A. West of George Washington and Guyasuta Points of View (Surls), a 1991 sculpture by JamesSurls, in Houston, Texas, US...
painter Betty Spindler (born 1943), ceramist JamesSurls (born 1943), sculptor and visual artist James Turrell (born 1943), installation artist William...
frequently their first in the context of a museum, included: Dick Wray, JamesSurls, Dorothy Hood, Luis Jimenez, Terry Allen, John Alexander, and Mel Casas...
Fire, a show of 100 Texas artists curated by JamesSurls for Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. At Surls' invitation Art in America editor Lucy Lippard...
football player in the NFL and Hall of Famer James Scott, professional football player in the NFL JamesSurls, sculptor. Nick Van Exel, professional basketball...
Moore and Claes Oldenburg, as well as by contemporary sculptors such as JamesSurls. Important figural sculptures by Rodin, Maillol, and Giacometti are also...
group study rooms, space for 180 computer terminals, and features art by JamesSurls. The Classroom Building, dedicated in 1971 at a cost of $1.75 million...
Taaffe, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Tina Girouard, Laurie Anderson and JamesSurls, among many others. During the 1960s he participated in various performance...
artwork. Her teachers include New York painter John Alexander and sculptor JamesSurls. Her friendship with artists Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz...
Texan and Southern artists. Past exhibits have included work by artists: JamesSurls, Farrah Fawcett (student, mentee, and occasional muse of Umlauf), Jesús...
Union/Uzbekistan Emmet Sullivan (1887–1970), US George Sugarman (1912–1999), US JamesSurls (born 1943), US Mark di Suvero (born 1933), Italy/US Marc-Aurèle de Foy...
at Southern Methodist University. Tobolowsky studied sculpture with JamesSurls and Louise Nevelson. He also later graduated with a Juris Doctor degree...
University of Houston. Under the direction of artist and sculpture professor JamesSurls with programming implemented independently from the university, the cavernous...
(Post Rice Lofts) viewed from Market Square, Houston Points of View by JamesSurls, installed in the park Glass (1994), pp. 175–176, 183. Bradley (2020)...
photographs, prints, and drawings. Recent acquisitions include artwork by JamesSurls, Andy Warhol, Melissa Miller, David Bates, Helen Altman, Russell Lee...
Texas 2007-"Duiying–Yingdui – Corresponding & Responding”, curated by JamesSurls, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China 2007-“40 Years of Public...
exhibitions of new Texas talent provided early venues for works of JamesSurls, John Alexander, and Luis Jimenez, among others. In the 1980s, the museum...
Artists,” which traveled six large sculptures by leading Texas artists (JamesSurls, Bob Wade, Luis Jiménez, Jim Love, Jesús Moroles, Mac Whitney), plus...
Houston area artists. Lawndale Art Center was founded in 1979 by artist JamesSurls in an abandoned 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m2) warehouse as part of the...
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