Heart pine          22 x 13.5 x 7 in          55.9 x 34.3 x 17.8 cm          Collection of Sharon and W. Grim Locke, Houston

On Being Ready to be Born
1977

"Surls’s artwork and his career come together in a compelling story that interweaves the unique aspects of a specific landscape, his personal story, and the tumultuous nature of art practice in the latter half of the twentieth century, into a mélange capable of reconciling counterculture utopianism and the rigor of post-minimalist sculptural approach. His unique blend of natural forms and sophisticated, sometimes edgy imagery and content places him securely within the broader context of art history."

-Terrie Sultan, Director of Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston.