Stephanie Scuris


Stephanie Scuris is an American artist and arts educator, known for her large-scale Constructivist sculptures. She taught at the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art located in Baltimore, MD.

Early life

Stephanie Scuris was born in Lacedaemonos, Greece,. She moved to the United States in 1947, just two years following the end of WWII. 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.

Career

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.
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 and the Salk Laboratories in the 1960s.
She was recruited, along with Norman Carlberg, by noted educator and artist Eugene Leake, 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,” an educational approach that centered on knowledge of the physical manipulation of materials rather than strict figurative representation.

Galleries

In her long career, Scuris has been represented by various galleries, including Galerie Chalette of New York, C. Grimaldis Gallery of Maryland, and the Francis Frost Gallery of Rhode Island.

Selected Exhibitions

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