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James Surls makes art that is simultaneously joyously optimistic and darkly expressionistic. Surls’ signature forms and images – such as diamond shapes, whirling vortexes, needles, knives and houses – infuse highly personalized folk idioms with the aesthetics of high modernism. His intimate, visionary pencil drawings are similarly energetic and direct, leaving room for viewers to discover the poetic vision he has created. The artist is the subject of the documentary Lines in Space: The Art of James Surls, produced by James Brundidge, Chelsea Congdon and First Light Films. The film explores Surls’s artistic philosophy, his impact on contemporary sculpture and his steel and wood sculptures. The artist has exhibited widely, and his work is included in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY), the High Museum (Atlanta, GA), the Museum of Modern Art, Stedelijk Museum, (Amsterdam, NL), among numerous others. Surls received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and has been the recipient of an Individual Artist’s Grant from the National Endowment of the Arts.
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Two Ways
Linocut
19 x 36 in.
Estimated Value: $2,500
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