By Maryann Wilkinson, Executive Director, The Scarab Club

Lois Teicher (b. 1938, Detroit) is best-known for her major works of public sculpture, such as Curved Form with Rectangle and Space in Hudson’s Art Park just outside the Scarab Club’s front door. Over a career that spans more than four decades, she has refined her vision from personal imagery to a formal meditation on color, shape, and space. This exhibition is a look back at her long career to explore the trajectory between these disparate elements.

Teicher came relatively late to her professional identity as an artist, attending art school after marrying and having children. She quickly shed early representational and performative aspects of her practice, rooted in the dichotomy between her discomfort with traditional female roles and her new-found freedom as an artist. She thought big, concentrating on large-scale, often site-specific sculpture.

Her mature work refines and layers geometric forms in primary colors that seem to float or hover weightlessly. Their sense of movement is a link to her early performances and reinforces her belief that space is an important component of the work. In her most recent sculptures, she pushes the purity of these forms toward asymmetry and imbalance, signaling yet another direction.