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James Surls
James Surls
James Surls

James Surls

American, born 1943
BiographyJames Surls (Born 1943) is active/lives in Texas, Colorado. James Surls is known for Monotone sculpture, abstract figure drawing and printmaking.
A modernist sculptor of delicate seeming wooden objects of intriguing designs, James Surles also does drawing and prints that feature natural and human images and forms.
He carves, whittles and stains his objects, but creating a monotone effect, rarely paints them but sometimes burns images into them. Some of his works are large, as much as nine-feet tall.
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