Asepn, CO ColoradoJames Surls, a product of the buttoned-down 1950s and of the rugged region of East Texas known as the Big Thicket, experienced a male-dominated upbringing. Adulthood, however, ...

Splendora, a community north of Houston, has a spotty reputation. For decades, it was best known as the town where car thieves could drive with certain impunity since law enforcement dreaded chasing ...

James Surls (American, b. 1943) is known primarily as a sculptor, and throughout his extensive career his creative process has continued to evolve as he incorporates themes, ideas, and concepts that ...

CLEVELAND, Texas - For 20 years, the compound of artists James Surls and Charmaine Locke was a nexus of creativity and bohemian reverie. Aside from their four daughters, it was their greatest creation ...

At a community meeting on Monday night, James Surls explained his process and addressed concerns over his planned sculpture “Sewing the Future,” which will be the centerpiece of a roundabout at ...

James Surls, the sculptor who had seven of his art pieces installed at Rice University last month, enlightened a crowd there recently about his art philosophy and the ideas behind his plant-like ...

James Surls thinks on a large scale. A few years ago, after telling me about the late Houston artist Bert Long’s ambitious but impractical concepts—such as dragging an iceberg into the Gulf—the ...

Where: In the show "Thought Waves: Drawings from Matter from Mind" at Clarke & Associates, 301 E. 11th, through Sept. 3 Why: A casual looker might easily dismiss James Surls's instantly recognizable ...

A fellow University of Houston student remembered one mid-1970s class with James Surls in a conversation with the Houston Chronicle: “We all looked up one day to find James Surls walking in the door ...

A small crowd came out Thursday morning to witness the installation of James Surls’ sculpture “Sewing the Future” in Carbondale’s new roundabout. They began to gather at around 9 a.m., as the ...

In the mid-'70s, the University of Houston was home to a collection of returning Vietnam vets, deferment recipients, and kids who narrowly missed the threat of service. Jim Hatchett was an art student ...

CARBONDALE — The controversial James Surls Center for Visual Art will not be moving into the old Gordon Cooper Library space in the center of town, although the committee working on the project has ...