Terry Durst

I was born on March 16, 1955, in Wadsworth, Ohio, US.
I make sculpture and installation work, and sometimes paintings.
I have taught studio art classes at The Cleveland Institute of Art and also at Cuyahoga Community College. These days I'm working in my studio and showing work.

These pieces are from an installation of sculpture titled "The Carter Excavations" (Arts Collinwood, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, January, 2010). This body of work was inspired by the music of the original Carter Family - Maybelle, Alvin and Sara.
My main inspiration has always been rock and roll, Neil Young especially.
But my favorite piece of art ever is David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE.
And I love contemporary fiction - Don DeLillo, Annie Proulx, Dennis Cooper, and Miranda July come instantly to mind.
Currently I work at The Beachland Ballroom, the best rock and roll club in Cleveland, where I am inspired nightly by incredible live music.

now under construction

I will be adding my resume here shortly, (I'm updating it). Please check back. In the meantime, here are three links to reviews and a link to a blog entry about a piece in "The Carter Excavations":

http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2010/01/rock_n_roll_inspires_sculptor.html

http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/answer-only-with-your-eyes/Content?oid=1817053

http://www.collinwoodobserver.com/read/2/1/south-collinwood-resident-at-north-collinwood-gallery

Kathy Ewing author of Missing: Coming to Terms with a Borderline Mother
kathyewing.com (click on blog if the post doesn't come up - this site was created for a book she is trying to get published).

And, following are some excerpts from older reviews. Thanks.

EXCERPTS FROM PRESS MATERIAL

Durst, thankfully, has given the final Dead Horse show some visual sizzle and a sense of light-heartedness. His installation, titled Splooge, consists of a series of colorful assemblages made from screwed-together scraps of plastic toys and household implements such as garden hoses and vacuum cleaners.

Each clump of objects is suspended from the gallery ceiling on lengths of black rubber tubing, which frees the artist from having to c...