Nov 19, 2008 but winterss 1992 exhibition brought the sudden sense of an artist struggling across a broad, inhospitable frontier. An artist book by terry winters featuring 50 black and white drawings. Includes biography, selected works, books, posters and associated exhibitions. Early in his career, abstract artist terry winters began turning to books for inspiration, such as pliny the elders natural history, which led winters to make his own pigments. Terry winterss artwork meets nature at his countryside studio. Facts and fictions via artforum a leading figure in the art world for four decades, terry winters became well known in the 1980s for his materiallyconscious drawings and paintings.
Winters was born in brooklyn, ny, and he graduated with a bfa from the pratt institute in 1971. Until july 15, which prints many of my books, is offering a 20% off coupon on everything. The artist has spent nearly four decades exploring a range of print techniques, many of which often relate to his paintings and drawings. Terry tempest williams is an american author, conservationist and activist. Learn about the broad collection artist terry winters. Brooklyn academy of music 1986 limited edition print.
Winters abstract paintings, which often resemble cells, spores and seeds, explore biological processes, mathematical fields and information technologies. Over the years, his work has featured linear images of grids, graphs, circles, and geometric forms usually layered in ways that create a sensation of structure and deep space. Apr 02, 2020 three newer, similarly scaled drawings by terry winters depict white shapes, overlaid with contoured stripes or grids, which are set within fields of black but, in the company of ms. Im interested in how to give a picture of these things we cant see, says winters. Winters, terry, goldsmith, kenneth, pakesch, peter, schmatz, ferninand. For the past 30 years, terry winters has occupied the same new york studio since his very first exhibition.
Terry winterss columbia county, ny, art studio was built asymmetrically and with zinc wrapping to nestle into its surroundings and maximize views of the taconic mountains. A painter, draftsman, and printmaker, winters began exhibiting in new york in 1977 after his graduation from pratt institute in 1971. Includes biography, selected works, books, posters and. The influencing machine, 2005, terry winters universal. Terry winters nice article about terry winters at man such beauty, from terry winters. Terry winters schema 1988 available for sale artsy. Highly intelligent and streetsmart in a gentle fashion, he is an avid reader with a wry wit. Terry winters exhibition catalogs, books, bibliography, biography. Three newer, similarly scaled drawings by terry winters depict white shapes, overlaid with contoured stripes or grids, which are set within fields of black but, in the company of ms. After graduation, winters painted for 10 straight years without exhibiting his work even a single time, making his first solo exhibition debut at the sonnabend gallery, new york, in 1982. Also included are images by the artist that have not previously been exhibited or published. Originally from brooklyn, ny, terry winters studied at the pratt institute where he earned his b. At the same time, his painting are unique artistic references to scientific processes.
This book features fifty beautiful reproductions, accompanied by insightful texts and comparative paintings and drawings. A leading figure in the art world for four decades, terry winters became. Exhibition terry winters works in exhibition matthew. Terry winters presents the ways in which the artist creates sets and subsets of distinctive works that interact with bodies of previous and current work. Limited edition fine art from terry winters, the influencing machine, 2005, lithograph in 5 colors, 30 14 in. An event at 192 books celebrating two new books by chicagobased writer, curator, and gallerist john corbett.
Winters and his swiss wife, hendel teicher, a freelance curator and art historian, maintain an apartment in geneva and travel often to museums, archaeological sites, and centers of craft in europe, asia, and. Throughout his career, he has explored abstraction in terms of complex formulas of layers, patterns, and symbols. For four decades, terry winterss paintings have mapped natural biological processes through abstract forms, lines, and color. Name terry winters born new york, new york born new york city 1949.
His early sketches of plant partslike pods, spores, and stamensthat he found in natural history museums and books became the starting point for the subject matter of his paintings. Terry winters luminance 2002 oil on linen 94 x 3 inches. Terry winters is knot of this world the village voice. The process is pushed and pulled until theres an imagea material process and an optical likeness. See more ideas about art, abstract art and abstract. Winters is interested in biology, chemistry, mineralogy and natural pigments and his art. Terry winters is known for modbiotic expression, abstraction, printmaking, collage. Terry winters s work of the past decade weaves disparate strains of idea, object, and physical operations into the primary logic of his art. Terry winters completed a new lithograph at ulae entitled red stone. Terry winters hardcover november 22, 2016 by terry winters artist, richard aldrich contributor see all formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Printed works heres another artist i offer by way of variety and interest. For four decades, terry winters s paintings have mapped natural biological processes through abstract forms, lines, and color. Lives and works in new york and geneva switzerland.
Terry winters is an american painter, draughtsman, and printmaker whose nuanced approach to the process of painting has addressed evolving concepts of spatiality and expanded the concerns of abstract art. Featuring 21 new paintings, all illustrated in full color, this catalogue highlights terry winters born 1949 unique layering of visual information and his signature use of color. His attention to the process of painting and investigations into systems and spatial fields explores both nonnarrative abstraction and the physicality of modernism. Rhyme has endless possibilities for interpretations, as winters paintings draw from a variety of sources at once.
Facts and fictions was on view april 6august 12, 2018 in our main gallery press read about terry winters. Painting, terry wintersartworks on ebay original artworks, prints, exhibition posters, monographs, books, collectibles. Nov 22, 2016 terry winters hardcover november 22, 2016 by terry winters artist, richard aldrich contributor see all formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Terry winters artist bio and art for sale artspace. New yorkbased artist terry winters is known for paintings, drawings and prints that oscillate between figuration and abstraction.
Terry winters selected bibliography books and catalogues 2018 cole, peter, claire gilman, and rachel kushner. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Institut valencia dart modern centre julio gonzales. Williams writing is rooted in the american west and has been significantly influenced by the arid landscape of. Painting and drawings terry winters, foye raymond on. His art contains an astonishing array of forms and demonstrates the equally surprising breadth of his artistic language. Rooted in minimalism, winters work reflects his careerlong investment in the historical and contemporary stakes of painting, and references ambiguous forms sourced from the sciences, mathematics and architecture. Since 1982, printmaking has become an essential process in terry winters artistic practice.
Winters, terry terry winters artist page with links to monographs, museum exhibition catalogs, criticism, catalogues raisonnes, related publications, and. American painter, terry winters, explores the connection between nature, science and painting. Books for reading and as objects to admire the boston globe. Terry winters paintings, prints, drawings and projects. But winterss 1992 exhibition brought the sudden sense of an artist struggling across a broad, inhospitable frontier. The artist terry winters born 1949, brooklyn new york, usa. Addison gallery of american art museum of contemporary art, san diego contemporary arts museum. This catalogue contextualizes the painting of american artist terry winters born 1949 within the scientific collections of universalmuseum joanneum in graz, austria. Interested in minimalism and its exploration of paintings conventions, winters began to think against the reductive tendencies of the then dominant formalist abstraction while maintaining hardwon modernist sensibility of nonnarrative abstraction. Forays into other music duke university press and a listeners guide to free improvisation university of chicago press with a reading by corbett, a conversation with terry winters, and a new piece performed by david. In winters work, abstract processes give way to forms with real word agency that recall mathematical concepts and. Terry winters artist keywords and quick facts terry.
Facts and fictions was on view at the university museum of contemporary art at umass amherst from january 31 april 28, 2019. Terry winters is a contemporary american painter and printmaker. A look at the recent work of terry winters, whose diverse and creative output continues to challenge and surprise the art world. He has explored a wide range of media at workshops such as universal limited art editions in west islip, long island, and the aldo crommelynck studio in paris. It is a steep climb, but the space is serene and open, decorated with a few large nigerian ceramics, a framed weegee photograph, and of course winterss own drawings and watercolors he does his oil painting in a studio in the country. He is also, however, one of the most distinguished printmakers working today. Nows the time to buy my books for yourself and as gifts for everyone you know. Terry winters 1949 art market, auction sales and artist. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers. Facts and fictions was on view april 6august 12, 2018 in our main gallery. Born in 1949, the american artist terry winters is primarily known for his paintings and drawings. Williams writing is rooted in the american west and has been significantly influenced by the arid landscape of her native utah in which she was raised.
Over the course of his career winters has expanded the concerns of abstract art while engaging contemporary concepts of the natural world. Terry winters 1949 united states is an artist born in 1949 the oldest auction result ever registered on the website for an artwork by this artist is a drawingwatercolor sold in 1987, at sothebys, and the most recent auction result is a painting sold in 2020. Every visitor can search and browse our listings when looking for an artist. My approach, winters once said of his working process, uses. See available prints and multiples, paintings, and.
The artist terry winters has been exploring the expanded field of abstraction in his paintings since the 1970s, using forms of figuration drawn from the natural and technological worlds as sources of inspiration. You never heard of willie mays by winter, jonah and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Winters considers science to be a neutral, and neutralizing, structure. Terry winters participated in artists sketchbooks, matthew marks gallerys inaugural show, in 1991, and since then the gallery has presented numerous oneperson exhibitions of his work. Terry winters works on the fifth floor of a tribeca walkup. Red stone, 2019, terry winters universal limited art. Terry winters, cricket music 2010, oil on linen, 88 x 112 inches all images courtesy the artist unless otherwise stated lets just delete all of that and start over again, terry. Winters has stated, everyone understands abstraction. Terry winters artist keywords and quick facts terry winters. Jun 12, 2001 terry winters is a consummate new yorker.
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