Terry Winters - Hardcover

Phillips, Lisa; Kertess, Klaus

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810939630 ISBN 13: 9780810939639

Publisher: Whitney Museum of Art, 1991

Synopsis

Terry Winters is one of an international group of artists who have reinvigorated abstract painting over the past 10 years. This volume features more than 100 paintings, prints and drawings, constituting a mid-career survey of Winters' work.

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From Publishers Weekly:

American artist Terry Winters conjures an ambiguous universe using organic images suggestive of cells, mushrooms, spores, shells, DNA strands and octopuses. Meditating on crystals and fossils, he dreams science into art. His shifting spaces and forms that open up, close down, warp and deform seem attuned to fractal geometry, computer mapping, even the astronomy of black holes. In this catalogue of an exhibit now at the Whitney Museum in New York, Phillips, a Whitney curator, interprets Winters's sensual yet cooly formal pictures as metaphors of artistic growth and investigations of both creative and entropic processes. Kertess, adjunct curator of drawings, probes the artist's secular sense of wonder. Among the 212 plates (164 in color) of paintings, prints and drawings are sexually suggestive forms with affinities to Georgia O'Keeffe's modernist experiments and charcoal sketches that turn Gothic tracery into biomorphic images of erotic unfolding.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Whitney Museum of Art
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0810939630
• ISBN 13: 9780810939639
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204