Stephanie Scuris | |
Birth Name: | Stephanie Scuris |
Birth Date: | 1931 1, mf=yes |
Birth Place: | Lacedaemonos, Greece |
Nationality: | American |
Movement: | Bauhaus, Modernist, Constructivist, Geometric abstraction |
Field: | Sculpture |
Education: | Yale University, BFA, MFA |
Works: | Harmony Fountain, Singapore[1] |
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]
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]
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 (bothalumni 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.
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]