Stephanie Scuris

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Stephanie Scuris
Born
Stephanie Scuris

(1931-01-01)January 1, 1931
Lacedaemonos, Greece
NationalityAmerican
Education Yale University, BFA, MFA
Known for Sculpture
Notable workHarmony Fountain, Singapore [1]
Movement Bauhaus, Modernist, Constructivist, Geometric abstraction

Stephanie Scuris (born 1931) is a Greek-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 in Baltimore, Maryland. [2]

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Early life

Scuris was born in Lacedaemonos, Greece,. [3] She moved to the United States in 1947 at age 16, two years after the end of World War II. [4] She studied under Josef Albers at Yale University, receiving 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, and 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 the 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 Scuris's 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]

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]

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References

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  6. Structured Sculpture: Norman Carlberg, Kent Bloomer, William Reimann, Erwin Hauer, Stephenie Scuris, Robert Engman, Deborah de Maulpied. New York: Galerie Chalette. 1960. OCLC   6027697.
  7. "Screens Set off Offices In Bank: Bronze Sculptures to Solve Floor-Plan Problem". The New York Times . New York. April 29, 1962.
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