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James Surls
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American
, born 1943)
James Surls
On The Water With Six Flowers,
2005
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1943
Born April 19, Texas
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.
MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art
BS Sam Houston State College
Exhibitions
2010
James Surls, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA (solo)
James Surls, Drawings on the Wall: When She Speaks with Blue Angel, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
Magnificent Seven: Houston Celebrates Surls, Rice University Campus, Houston, TX (solo)
James Surls: Flowers, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY (solo)
2009
James Surls on Park Ave., Park Ave. between 51st and 57th Streets, New York, NY (solo)
James Surls: From the Heartland, The Grace Museum, Abilene, TX (solo)
James Surls: From 2009, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
2008
James Surls, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA (solo)
Story: Brent Green, Jill Hadley Hooper, James Surls, Metropolitan State College of Denver: Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO
3 New Works: James Surls, Possibilities: Sharon Kopriva, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Ulterior Motifs No. 11, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Art in the Garden, Blue Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Texas
Amistad: Texas Art in Peru, Museo de la Nacion, Lima, Peru(accompanying catalogue)
2007
Sheldon Survey: An Invitational, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln,NE
Corresponding & Responding: United Exhibition of Chinese-American Artists, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China(accompanying catalogue)
2006
Flatbed in Marfa, Flatbed Press, Marfa, Texas
P.R.I.N.T News, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico(solo)
Finding Balance, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX(accompanying book)
Decades of influence: Colorado 1985-Present, The Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, Denver, CO
James Surls: Marking Time, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas (solo)
James Surls: Recent Works, Stephen F. Austin Gallery, Nacogdoches, Texas (solo)
James Surls: The Splendora Years 1977-1997, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas (solo)
James Surls, University of Texas Press and Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas (solo)
Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
James Surls: Giving and Receiving, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas (solo)
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ,
2005
The Museum of Art and History at the McPherson Center, San Diego, CA,
2004
“Cranbrook Art Museum:100 Treasures”, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
“Drawings & Sculptures”, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
2003
“In the Meadows”, Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX (solo)
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
“New Bronzes” Marblorough Gallery Chelsea, New York, NY (solo)
“Walking with Diamonds”, El Paso Museum of At, El Paso, TX (solo)
1999
The Creative World of James Surls
“Innate Contours: The Drawings – James Surls” Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX (solo)
1997
“James Surls, Swimming in Forever”, R. Don Cowan Fine & Performing Arts Center, The University of Texas, Tyler, TX (solo)
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
1991
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI (solo)
1989
'The Boat Show: Fantastic Vessels, Fictional Voyages”, Renwich Gallery, The Smithonsian, Washington D.C.
1987
Cranbrook Academy Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI (solo)
Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Pittsburg Center for the Arts, PA; traveled to Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1985
“Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1984
“Visions: James Surls – 1974 – 1984” Traveled: Dallas Museum of Fine Art, TX, La Jolla Museum, CA, Seattle Art Museum, WA (solo)
1979
“Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1977
“Nine Artists: Theodorn Awards”, The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
“James Surls: Sculpture” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (solo)
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Literature
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
“Innate Contours: Drawing of James Surls” by Valerie Olsen, The Glassell, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
“In Company: Robert Greeley’s Collaborations”, Castellani Art Museum of Niagra University, New York Public Library, Green Library, Stanford, CA
