Stephanie Scuris
Stephanie Scuris (born 1931) is an American artist and arts educator, known for her large-scale Constructivist sculptures. She taught at the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art located in Baltimore, MD.[2]
Stephanie Scuris | |
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| Born | Stephanie Scuris January 1, 1931 Lacedaemonos, Greece |
| Nationality | U.S. |
| Education | Yale University, BFA, MFA |
| Known for | Sculpture |
Notable work | Harmony Fountain, Singapore[1] |
| Movement | Bauhaus, Modernist, Constructivist, Geometric abstraction |
Early life
Stephanie Scuris was born in Lacedaemonos, Greece,.[3] She moved to the United States in 1947 (at age 16), just two years following the end of WWII.[4] She studied under Josef Albers at Yale University, receiving both a BFA and a MFA from the School of Art and Architecture in the late 1950s.[5]
Career
Scuris was one of the select group of students Albers introduced to Madeleine and Arthur Lejwa at the Galerie Chalette. While still a student at Yale, she exhibited at their Structured Sculptures show of winter, 1960.[6] She exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art, MOMA, The Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Yale Art School, worked on major commissions for the Bankers Trust Company[7] and the Salk Laboratories in the 1960s.[8]
She was recruited, along with Norman Carlberg, by noted educator and artist Eugene Leake (both alumni of the Yale/Albers MFA program), to revive the sculpture program at the Rinehart School at the Maryland Institute of Art. That revival was, by Ms. Scuris's own account, "all about Bauhaus,”[9] an educational approach that centered on knowledge of the physical manipulation of materials rather than strict figurative representation.
Selected Exhibitions[10]
- Recent Sculpture USA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959
- Structured Sculpture, Galerie Chalette, New York, 1961 & 1968
- Geometric Abstraction in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1962
- Women Artists in America Today, Mt. Holyoke College, MA, 1962
- White on White, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 1965
- Inside Outside, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, 1966
- Josef Albers: His Art & Influence, Montclair Art Museum, NJ, 1981
Awards, Permanent Collections
Winterwitz Award, prize for outstanding work & alumni award, Yale Univ.; Peabody Award, 1961–62; Rinehart fellowship, 1961-64.[11]
- Skedion Ecton, (1964) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York[12]
References
- Scuris, Stephanie (7 Jun 2018). "Harmony Fountain". SG Magazine.
- "Stephanie Scuris: works on exhibit". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland: 26. 8 Dec 1971.
- "Biography of Stephanie Scuris". Art Price.
- Diuguid, Lew (9 Jun 2012). "A Sculptor and Her Art -- After All These Years" (PDF). Baltimore, Maryland: The Fells Pointer.
- "Art on Display: a selection of works by Stephanie Scuris". Baltimore, Maryland: The Evening Sun. 11 Nov 1966. p. 18.
- Structured Sculpture: Norman Carlberg, Kent Bloomer, William Reimann, Erwin Hauer, Stephenie Scuris, Robert Engman, Deborah de Maulpied. New York: Galerie Chalette. 1960. OCLC 6027697.
- "Screens Set off Offices In Bank: Bronze Sculptures to Solve Floor-Plan Problem". New York TImes. New York. April 29, 1962.
- "Art on Display: a selection of works by Stephanie Scuris". Baltimore, Maryland: The Evening Sun. 11 Nov 1966. p. 18.
- Giuliano, Mike. "The View From Monkton: Eugene Leake's Dramatic Late Work." City Paper [Baltimore] 26 Jan. 1994. Print.
- "Stephanie Scuris Biography". Francis Frost Fine Art Gallery.
- "Biography of Stephanie Scuris". Art Price.
- Scuris, Stephanie. "Skedion Ekton". New York: Whitney Museum of Art.
