Splendora Gardens
26041 Midline Rd, Cleveland, TX 77328
Collaborator: Richard (Dickie) Landry (sound)
James Surls is an internationally recognized Texan artist who graduated from Sam Houston State Teachers College in 1966 and from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1968. He taught at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX from 1968 to 1976. He then moved to Splendora, TX with his wife and artist Charmaine Locke. While living in Splendora he founded Lawndale Arts & Performance Space at the University of Houston in the late 70’s and was heavily involved in the arts scene in Houston. Today, his sculptures, drawings and prints, which reflect his unique sensibility to natural forms, are in major art museums and public and private collections throughout the world, including: the Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City; The country of Singapore; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Surls currently resides in Carbondale, CO.
Bower in progress
James Surls
A Gift From The Bower is presented by DiverseWorks and the Locke Surls Center for Art and Nature @ Splendora Gardens (LSCAN).
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Collaborator: Richard (Dickie) Landry (sound)
James Surls is an internationally recognized Texan artist who graduated from Sam Houston State Teachers College in 1966 and from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1968. He taught at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX from 1968 to 1976. He then moved to Splendora, TX with his wife and artist Charmaine Locke. While living in Splendora he founded Lawndale Arts & Performance Space at the University of Houston in the late 70’s and was heavily involved in the arts scene in Houston. Today, his sculptures, drawings and prints, which reflect his unique sensibility to natural forms, are in major art museums and public and private collections throughout the world, including: the Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City; The country of Singapore; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Surls currently resides in Carbondale, CO.
Bower in progress
James Surls
A Gift From The Bower is presented by DiverseWorks and the Locke Surls Center for Art and Nature @ Splendora Gardens (LSCAN).