Gallery Exhibition:
CHARMAINE and JAMES

Feb 11 - Apr 30, 2027

Patton-Malott Gallery

CHARMAINE and JAMES Gallery Exhibition will be on view at Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado from February 11, through April 30, 2027. 

The Gallery Reception will be held February 16, 2027, from 5 to 6PM in the Patton-Malott Gallery. 

Concepts arise from pools of experiences; they intersect with materials and practices to form unique expressions from an artists’ perspective. Charmaine Locke and James Surls have drawn from many of the same sources throughout their 50 years.
Frequently touching on the idea of duality, of the combined strength of two points of view unified in a totality, fire and water producing a vibrant existence. Psychologically charged elements reflect musings on the individual in relation to the individual mind, society, and universal concepts.

Artists

Charmaine Locke

Charmaine Locke was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1950 to an Air Force family that moved to Okinawa, California, and eventually Bangkok, Thailand. Her family later moved from Boston, Massachusetts, to Bethesda, Maryland, and then to Dallas, Texas, where Locke received her B.A. in Psychology from Southern Methodist University in 1974. Her move to Splendora, Texas, in 1976, with artist James Surls, was pivotal. Located near the Houston art scene, Splendora provided the setting in which Locke developed her artistic language. She exhibited widely throughout Texas and nationally, as well as internationally at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing; the Museo de la Nación in Lima, Peru; and in Baroda and Delhi, India. In 1997, she and her family relocated from Texas to Basalt, Colorado, later building a home and studio near Carbondale, Colorado. She has exhibited her sculpture, drawings, and prints at the Aspen Art Museum in Aspen, Colorado; Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado; the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado; and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Boulder, Colorado. Locke’s work can be found in public collections, including the Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado; the City of Corpus Christi in Texas; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in Houston, Texas; Republic Bank in Houston, Texas; and the Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her work is also held in private collections ranging from Laguna Beach, California, to Providence, Rhode Island, and Aspen, Colorado.

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James Surls

James Surls is an internationally recognized artist, widely known for his monumental sculptures, drawings, and prints. He utilizes symbolism, pattern, and rhythm to illustrate his reverence for the natural and spiritual worlds. Surls’ works are in public, private, and museum collections throughout the world, including: the Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City; the country of Singapore; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY.

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