Stephanie Scuris (born 1931) is a Greek-American artist and arts educator known for her large-scale Constructivist sculptures. She taught at the

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at the Maryland Institute College of Art in

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, 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

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. 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

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(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,''

, 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'',

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, 1965 * ''Inside Outside,'' Smith College Museum of Art,

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, 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

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