Terry Winters

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TERRY WINTERS: CRICKET MUSIC, TESSELLATION FIGURES & NOTEBOOK
Text by Katy Siegel.
MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY
ISBN: 9781880146606 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 11/30/2012
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TERRY WINTERS: SIGNAL TO NOISE
Text by Enrique Juncosa, David Levi Strauss, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Francine Prose.
CHARTA/IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
ISBN: 9788881587520 | US $65.00
Pub Date: 2/28/2010
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TERRY WINTERS: KNOTTED GRAPHS
Text by Kathryn A. Tuma.
MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY
ISBN: 9781880146507 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2009
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TERRY WINTERS: LOCAL GROUP
Afterword by Francine Prose.
PRATT EXHIBITIONS
ISBN: 9780974038124 | US $20.00
Pub Date: 1/1/2006
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TERRY WINTERS: PRINTS & SEQUENCES
Essay by Clifford S. Ackley. Foreword by Sharon Corwin.
COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, WATERVILLE, MAINE
ISBN: 9780972848442 | US $20.00
Pub Date: 1/1/2006
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Terry Winters

Terry Winters: Cricket Music, Tessellation Figures & Notebook

Text by Katy Siegel.
Published by Matthew Marks Gallery

Cricket Music, Tessellation Figures & Notebook presents a series of new works by acclaimed New York painter Terry Winters (born 1949), in which he explores forms inspired by mathematical concepts such as tessellations, knot theory and similar shapes derived from natural and scientific realms. Winters’ kaleidoscopic compositions of overlapping grids and patterns create complex pictorial spaces, and his use of transparent pigments allows the viewer to see, as the artist has said, “all the events that went into the making of the painting.” Tessellation Figures refers to the process of creating a two-dimensional plane through the repetition of a geometric shape. The Notebook series (2003–2011) consists of collages of found images, layered on top of one another, which have provided the source material for several of Winters’ recent paintings, and which affirm the enduring tension between abstraction and representation throughout his work.

Terry Winters: Signal to Noise

Text by Enrique Juncosa, David Levi Strauss, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Francine Prose.
Published by Charta/Irish Museum of Modern Art

Terry Winters (born 1949) belongs to a generation of artists who have taken painting beyond the constraints of Minimalism; his art seems to arise almost as a byproduct of independent natural or mechanical processes, which leave buzzing arrays of knots, grids, whorls, tangles and weaves in their wake. Following his investigations of the 1980s, which centered on depictions of botanical and biological processes, Winters now explores the more cerebral imagery of information technology in paintings and drawings that invoke networks and systems of modular forms and structures—themes that, in their hermeneutic openness, make his work particularly available for collaboration (Winters has recently worked with Trisha Brown and Rem Koolhaas). This sleekly designed survey of painting and drawing from the past ten years reproduces major series such as Set Diagram (2000), Turbulence Skins (2002), Local Group (2004) and Knotted Graphs (2008).

Terry Winters: Knotted Graphs

Text by Kathryn A. Tuma.
Published by Matthew Marks Gallery

New York-based artist Terry Winters is known for paintings, drawings and prints that oscillate between figuration and abstraction. Rooted in Minimalism, Winters' work reflects his career-long investment in the historical and contemporary stakes of painting, and references ambiguous forms sourced from the sciences, mathematics and architecture. These forms subtly suggest any number of objects--maps, blueprints, seeds, spores, shells, fungi, spiderwebs, X-rays, molecular structures, balls of yarn, fishing nets, tree branches, magnified crystals or neurological circuits--without actually depicting any of them directly, leaving the viewer's eye to wander restlessly throughout the picture plane. Winters has described his strategy: "So much of the contemporary world is driven by abstract processes... The old Modernist oppositions between the retinal and the intellectual just really don't function anymore."
Knotted Graphs presents a series of paintings and drawings made in 2007 and 2008 that further investigate the grid through mathematical principles such as knot theory.

Terry Winters: Local Group

Afterword by Francine Prose.
Published by Pratt Exhibitions

The first place the reader encounters text in this book of assertive graphite drawings is its next-to-last page. There's no title, no table of contents, and no introduction--it's all drawings from the front cover straight through to "Afterwords 101, A Short Answer Quiz" by Francine Prose. Prose rises to meet Winters's work with an homage that is art in itself, an unconventional, sweet, funny poem evoking the artist's symbol language and his ideas, and analyzing them even as it mocks that assignment. One question reads "By what signs are the following recognized?" The list, in order, is a blob, a lump, a smudge, a mistake, an intention, and an egg. It's both sharp and mysterious, and it's insightful enough to bring readers back to page one seeking answers.

Terry Winters: Prints & Sequences

Essay by Clifford S. Ackley. Foreword by Sharon Corwin.
Published by Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine

The Colby College of Art is the sole repository of Terry Winters's entire archive of prints. Prints & Sequences presents selections from that collection, spanning two decades and a variety of media including lithography, etching, aquatint, woodcut, linoleum cut and Mixografia. Serial practice is at the core of Winters's art, and Prints & Sequences offers insight into the artist's diverse printing techniques as well as a perspective on his serial processes within individual groupings. The catalogue essay by Clifford S. Ackley, Chair, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, and Ruth and Carl Shapiro Curator of Prints and Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, offers an insightful account of Winters's printmaking within the history of the medium.