Terry Winters
American, b. 1949
Terry Winters was born in New York in 1949 and received a BFA from Pratt Institute in 1971. Following his first exhibition at Sonnabend Gallery in 1982, his work has been the subject of numerous museum surveys. These include the Tate Gallery, London; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; IVAM, Centre Julio Gonzales, Valencia and the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Basel; The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Retrospectives of his drawings and prints have been organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; as well as the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark. A complete archive of his printed works is held at the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine. In 2013, Winters was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Winters is represented by Matthew Marks Gallery in New York and Los Angeles. Winters lives and works in New York and Columbia County.
Source: terrywinters.org, 2020
Terry Winters’s paintings have mapped natural biological processes through abstract forms, lines, and color. Winters considers science to be “a neutral, and neutralizing, structure: a kind of blank metaphor which can be loaded with all the poetry occurring on the pictorial film of the painting.” His first excursions into organic shapes came by sketching botanical spores, pods, and stamens from natural history museums and books. These drawings became a catalyst for the subject matter of his paintings, in which organic tubes, cavities, and cavernous holes stretch over large expansive canvases.
Source: thebroad.org, 2020
American, b. 1949
Terry Winters was born in New York in 1949 and received a BFA from Pratt Institute in 1971. Following his first exhibition at Sonnabend Gallery in 1982, his work has been the subject of numerous museum surveys. These include the Tate Gallery, London; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; IVAM, Centre Julio Gonzales, Valencia and the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Basel; The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Retrospectives of his drawings and prints have been organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; as well as the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark. A complete archive of his printed works is held at the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine. In 2013, Winters was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Winters is represented by Matthew Marks Gallery in New York and Los Angeles. Winters lives and works in New York and Columbia County.
Source: terrywinters.org, 2020
Terry Winters’s paintings have mapped natural biological processes through abstract forms, lines, and color. Winters considers science to be “a neutral, and neutralizing, structure: a kind of blank metaphor which can be loaded with all the poetry occurring on the pictorial film of the painting.” His first excursions into organic shapes came by sketching botanical spores, pods, and stamens from natural history museums and books. These drawings became a catalyst for the subject matter of his paintings, in which organic tubes, cavities, and cavernous holes stretch over large expansive canvases.
Source: thebroad.org, 2020
Artist Objects
Field Notes XV 2001.022
Artist Images