Palm Springs, CA, United States
Desert landscapes are often environments of pure abstraction, where clarity, emptiness, and silence ...
About the artist
Joined In 2013
(20 Followers)
About the artist
Joined In 2013
(20 Followers)
Desert landscapes are often environments of pure abstraction, where clarity, emptiness, and silence can simultaneously be a physical and psychological experience. Painting in the desert has helped me to understand that abstraction and representation pervade my art in a permanent interplay, one always harbors characteristics of the other. In that place where the world drops away, I continue to discover innate beauty in the exquisite patterns left by the flow of nature.
The Earth is my endless source. Random, arbitrary detail may make some of the abstracts appear as contradictory, unintentional compositions or they may be intentional representation of a reference I recall. As I maintain a relationship with the source material, often the colors suggest a landscape or a hint of horizon. Abstract paintings are made in layers using chance and arbitrariness. Through the construction and deconstruction of paint I create deliberate pictorial structures.
Art is my personal alchemy; I use it for healing both body and mind. Art becomes a ritual, a type of consciousness that allows me to enter the cosmic space. The physicality of working on large canvases or supports allows one to interact with creation on a molecular level.
Art Education
Parson's New School of Design, New York 1993-1995
Heatherly's School of Art, London 1995-1996
Chelsea College of Art, London 1998-2001 Tulane University, 2005
Academy of Art, San Francisco 2010
Gallerist: Desert Art Woman Gallery Palm Springs
SOLO EXHIBITS
December 2012 The Pink Rooster Gallery
Ocean Springs, MS
April 2010 “Body Talk”, The Art House
Ocean Springs, MS
December 2009 “Beside the Seaside”, Jolly McCarty Depot
Pascagoula, MS
December 2008 Theresa’s Gallery
Ocean Springs, MS
June 2008 “A moment of time, of mine too, among others”, The Art House
Ocean Springs, MS
VIRTUAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS
December 2020 Tea Time with Terry, “Rinse, Lather Repeat”
UCR Palm Desert
Members Show
Artist’s Council Palm Springs
November 2020 New Horizons Exhibit
Contemporary Art Curator Magazine
Tea Time with Terry, ‘’ Art of Individuality”
UCR Palm Desert
Members Show
Artist’s Council Palm Springs
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