James Surls is an internationally recognized artist, formerly from Texas, who lives and works in Colorado. He creates sculptures in wood and metal, as well as drawings and prints, using abstract figurative imagery derived in part from primitive mythologies of the American Southwest. His works have been shown in both national and international solo and group exhibitions and are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of Art in New York; the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.; The Denver Art Museum; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; the Museum of Fine Arts Houston; and the Dallas Museum of Art. Surls was awarded the “Living Legend Award” from the Dallas Contemporary Art Center in 1993, the “Texas Artist of the Year” in 1991 and an NEA Fellowship in 1979.