Stephanie Scuris

Stephanie Scuris was born in Lacedaemonos, Greece,.[3] She moved to the United States in 1947 (at age 16), just two years following the end of WWII.[4] She studied under Josef Albers at Yale University, receiving both 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, 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 noted 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 Ms. Scuris's own account, "all about Bauhaus,”[9] an educational approach that centered on knowledge of the physical manipulation of materials rather than strict figurative representation.

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  Skedion Ekton, Stephanie Scuris, ca. 1960.
  This representative early sculpture was displayed at both the 1961 Galerie Chalette and the 1959 Exhibition at MOMA.[10]
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  Untitled, Eastridge Mall Commission, Stephanie Scuris, 1971. Scuris's work in the 70s and 80s focussed on largescale commissions for public and private outdoor spaces.
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  Scuris's Eastridge Mall Commission has been transferred to a public setting following renovation of the commercial mall space in San Jose, CA.[11]
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  Harmony Fountain, Stephanie Scuris, 1982.
  Later graphic work[12]
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  Stephanie Scuris with an untitled sculpture, 2012. In her 80s, Scuris continues to work, but has reduced her sculptures to a more manageable scale
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In her long career, Scuris has been represented by various galleries, including Galerie Chalette of New York, C. Grimaldis Gallery of Maryland (where she was one of two artists in its inaugural exhibition of 1977), and the Francis Frost Gallery of Rhode Island.

• 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

Winterwitz Award, prize for outstanding work & alumni award, Yale Univ.; Peabody Award, 1961–62; Rinehart fellowship, 1961-64.[15]

Skedion Ecton, (1964) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York[16]