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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.

Early life

Scuris was born in Lacedaemonos, Greece,. She moved to the United States in 1947 at age 16, two years after the end of World War II. 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.

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. 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 and the Salk Laboratories in the 1960s.

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,” an educational approach that centered on knowledge of the physical manipulation of materials rather than strict figurative representation.

Selected exhibitions

• 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.

Skedion Ecton, (1964) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

References

1. Scuris, Stephanie (7 Jun 2018). "Harmony Fountain". SG Magazine.
2. "Stephanie Scuris: works on exhibit". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland: 26. 8 Dec 1971.
3. "Biography of Stephanie Scuris". Art Price.
4. Diuguid, Lew (9 Jun 2012). "A Sculptor and Her Art -- After All These Years" (PDF). Baltimore, Maryland: The Fells Pointer.
5. "Art on Display: a selection of works by Stephanie Scuris". Baltimore, Maryland: The Evening Sun. 11 Nov 1966. p. 18.
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.
8. "Art on Display: a selection of works by Stephanie Scuris". Baltimore, Maryland: The Evening Sun. 11 Nov 1966. p. 18.
9. Giuliano, Mike. "The View From Monkton: Eugene Leake's Dramatic Late Work." City Paper 26 Jan. 1994. Print.
10. "Stephanie Scuris Biography". Francis Frost Fine Art Gallery.
11. "Biography of Stephanie Scuris". Art Price.
12. Scuris, Stephanie. "Skedion Ekton". New York: Whitney Museum of Art.

• 1931 births
• American people of Greek descent
• Living people
• Yale School of Art alumni
• Maryland Institute College of Art faculty
• Artists from Baltimore
• Sculptors from Maryland
• 20th-century American sculptors
• 20th-century American women sculptors
• 21st-century American women sculptors
• 21st-century American sculptors
• American modern sculptors
• American abstract artists
• Abstract sculptors
• American women academics