James Surls: Flowers Closes Saturday

James Surls: Flowers installation view

Last chance to see James Surls: Flowers, an exhibition of scultpure that explores the floral theme, a signature motif in the artist's work, and the idea of sculpture suspended from the ceiling.  All are precursors to Rolling Flower, the major commissioned work of art for Coe Library's new expansion.

James Surls: Flowers closes Saturday, May 8.  Gallery hours are 10am - 5 pm Mon. - Fri.

James Surls at the University of Wyoming

Now available on the University of Wyoming webpage! Listen to James Surls discussing his new permanent installation in Coe Library.

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James Surls to Present Public Talk at Coe Library

James Surls, Rolling Flower

Courtesy of the artist

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

James Surls, nationally known artist, will give an Art Talk on Saturday, October 24 at 1 p.m. in William Robertson Coe Library. The public Art Talk is free and will be followed by a reception to celebrate the installation of Surls’ newest piece, Rolling Flower, in William Robertson Coe Library.

Surls is best known for his sculpture work. He is noted as being “one of America’s most important living sculptors and one of the most distinctive creative forces on the international art scene in the last several decades.” Time Magazine announces that “Surls sculpture is infused, at the start, with a real sense of fright: the noonday demon lurking in the woodpile.”

Surls is also known for his work with non-profit organizations and emerging artists. He has worked as an arts administrator and arts educator alongside his wife and fellow artist Charmaine Locke. Both Surls and Locke have large-scale sculptures in the exhibition Sculpture: A Wyoming Invitational.

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