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

• Negative Space at Detroit Artists Market, with Mark Beltchenko, Richard Bennett, Sierra Chadwick, Sergio De Giusti, Aaron Deshields, M. Saffell Gardner, Ray Katz, Kathyrose Pizzo and Foster Willey, curated by Veronica Bielat. With Jack O. Summers Featured Artist Erin Theroux. Opened August 28 and slated to run to September 26. The curator will moderate a gallery talk with Lois and two of the other artists on September 10 at 6:00 p.m.

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.

• Female Gaze at Playground Detroit. March 22, 2025 — April 19, 2025.
• 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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