Detail of a portrait of Lois Teicher, pho­to by Donita Simpson.

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Lois Teicher

Sculptor specializing in site-spe­cif­ic art using steel, from ini­tial concept and planning through fab­ri­ca­tion to in­stal­la­tion. Nick­named "the wom­an of steel." A lot of her work is in cor­po­rate, in­sti­tu­tion­al and pri­vate col­lec­tions.

Bachelor of Fine Arts 1979 from the Col­lege for Cre­a­tive Stu­dies (CCS), Mas­ter of Fine Arts 1981 from East­ern Mich­i­gan Uni­ver­si­ty. Win­ner of the Guvvy Award 2008, ossia the Mich­i­gan Art­ist Life­time Achieve­ment Award. Two-time winner of an award from the may­or of Dear­born. Frequent ju­ror of art ex­hi­bi­tions.

Despite all her accolades, Lois is not slowing down to rest on her laurels. At any given time, she's either plan­ning a new proj­ect or gathering materials or cre­at­ing new artwork. Her next un­veil­ing is ex­pect­ed to be in met­ro Detroit later this year.

One of several "paper" airplanes by Lois Teicher at the Bishop In­ter­na­tion­al Airport in Flint. Photo by Shel Hens­leigh.

Current exhibitions

• Female Gaze at Playground Detroit. Opened March 22 and slated to run to April 19.

Even when she doesn't have any artwork in gal­leries, there are plenty of places to see her art­work in site-spe­cif­ic installations around Mich­i­gan: Big Rapids, Bir­ming­ham, Detroit, Grand Blanc, Grosse Ile, Mount Clem­ens, Thomp­son­ville, Tra­verse City, West Bloom­field, each of these boast at least one in­stal­la­tion by her. The book Art in Detroit Public Places by Den­nis Naw­roc­ki is a very good re­source.

But she's probably most famous for a series of "pa­per" airplanes at the Bishop International Air­port in Flint.

Also she has an installation at the Adams Dai­ry Park­way Shop­ping Cen­ter in Blue Springs, Mis­sou­ri.

Upcoming exhibitions

Various plans. Also, she's in the planning stages for a few more site-specific installations to be unveiled later this year or next year. Dates and locations to be announced.

Past exhibitions

Selected past exhibitions prior to 2024

I have not had time to sift through her long list of past exhibits. For now I'll just list a few very arbitrarily chosen exhibits from her résumé prior to 2024. Suffice it to say that a complete listing would be way more than twice as long as this.

• Quiet Performance: The Stillness of Shape at Galerie Camille. September 28, 2024 — October 19, 2024.
• Hard / Soft, with Ijania Cortez, Asia Hamilton, Sydney James, etc., at Galerie Camille. March 19, 2021 — April 17, 2021.
• Thank You, Mies, with James Collins, Simone DeSousa, etc., at Detroit Artists Market. Curated by Dennis Nawrocki. With featured artist Darin Darby. June 14, 2019 — July 20, 2019.
• Restatement, at the Padzieski Art Gallery. March 15, 2019 — April 11, 2019.
• Three Views, with Rose DeSloover and Sherry Moore at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center. 2011.
• Small Scale at Au Courant Interior Design Studio and Gallery. 2002.
• Architectural Models & Small Sculpture at the Dewaters Art Center. 1998.
• The Home Show, curated by Dennis Nawrocki, at the CCS Center Galleries. 1992.
• The Plain Truth, curated by Jan van der Marck, at the Detroit Institute of Arts. 1988.
• Celebrate Michigan Artists (juror), Paint Creek Center for the Arts. 1982.
• With twenty other artists selected by Roy Slade at the Cranbrook Art Museum. 1979.

External links

• Official website
• CCS alumni profile

News

• Laura Bonnell, "End of an Era: Last Artist Moves Out of Detroit’s Atlas Building", The Detroit Jewish News, January 12, 2021. "My mother, Lois Teicher, began renting her 2,000-square-foot studio at the Atlas Building on Gratiot Avenue in Detroit in 1982. The building was a well-known artists enclave and, today at 82 years old, she is the last artist to move out of the building." According to Laura, the landlord offered Lois a studio not far from Atlas.

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