Lois Teicher

 
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Momentum 2025, archival pigment print, sh: 22” x 30”, ed: 20, $2000.

Momentum
2025, archival pigment print, sh: 22” x 30”, ed: 20, $2000.

 
 
Photo Courtesy of Kathy Rines

Photo Courtesy of Kathy Rines

Sculptor Lois Teicher is widely celebrated for her large-scale abstract works that engage with notions of space, perception, and material tension. One of the few women to base her sculptural output in the foundry, Teicher creates forms that are grounded in the legacy of Minimalism and influenced by the gestures of Abstract Expressionism. Early experiments in performance art inspired by her interest in feminism and her personal experiences gave way to a concentration on pure form by the 1980s. Her dynamic sculptures, typically either painted stainless steel or aluminum, enliven geometric form with solid, intense color, opposing or repeated forms, and the suggestion of movement and weightlessness. Often installed in parks, academic campuses, or urban plazas, these works are a reminder of the glorious impact on both site and viewer inherent in public sculpture. Their formal sophistication and material ingenuity present a creative practice that is highly intellectual, intensely beautiful, and deeply human.

Teicher’s work is seen throughout Michigan and surrounding states, including major commissions for Bishop International Airport, Flint; Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville, MI; and Hudson’s Art Park, Detroit. In addition, her work is represented in numerous public and private collections, among them The Detroit Institute of Arts, the Dennos Museum Center, the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. She has been featured in solo and group exhibitions regularly since 1979.

Born in Detroit in 1938, Teicher has lived and worked in Detroit her entire life. She earned a BFA from College for Creative Studies and an MFA from Eastern Michigan University.

Teicher’s fine art print edition titled Momentum is her first published venture into a two-dimensional representation of her sculptural work and collaboration with the fine art printer/publisher, Stewart & Stewart.

MaryAnn Wilkinson, August 2025, (former Head of the Modern and Contemporary Art Department at the Detroit Institute of Arts)