Baseline Gallery: 8 December 2006
Baseline Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of the most recent work from Terrell Carter opening on December 8 from 6:00 until 9:00 pm and running until March 2, 2007.
When Terrell Carter was six years old his uncle showed him several drawings created by his estranged father. The following day he went to school and announced that he intended to be an artist. From then on he also began drawing regularly.
In February 2006 Carter’s father died of a heart attack. During the period following his death, Carter created work reflecting this metamorphosis and he chose the landscape as the leitmotiv.
“What I did is created a group of prints that to me illustrates the dramatic period – my father’s heart attack – and then en the resultant period of calm – his death. My intent was to show that as a landscape, a landscape subjected to a dramatic storm, a landscape that becomes peaceful and is changed for the better.
Sixteen prints on paper illustrate the before, during, and after. Black skies, dark red mountains, and yellow-orange valleys equally divide the space in one set of prints. In another set, color remains bright but it is no longer smooth and movement is more apparent. With the last group the sky is often interrupted by an almost blinding bright yellow light.
Also included in the exhibit are several large-scale figurative prints: monoprints with oil stick and pen and ink details. “It is hard for me to have a show and not have any figures; I am still extremely fascinated by the figure.”
Additionally, copies of Carter’s first book, Machiavellian Arts Management: Timeless Advice for 21st Century Arts Organizations will be available for purchase. This publication provides operating tactics for today’s organizations drawn from principles taken from Niccolo Machiavelli.
When Terrell Carter was six years old his uncle showed him several drawings created by his estranged father. The following day he went to school and announced that he intended to be an artist. From then on he also began drawing regularly.
In February 2006 Carter’s father died of a heart attack. During the period following his death, Carter created work reflecting this metamorphosis and he chose the landscape as the leitmotiv.
“What I did is created a group of prints that to me illustrates the dramatic period – my father’s heart attack – and then en the resultant period of calm – his death. My intent was to show that as a landscape, a landscape subjected to a dramatic storm, a landscape that becomes peaceful and is changed for the better.
Sixteen prints on paper illustrate the before, during, and after. Black skies, dark red mountains, and yellow-orange valleys equally divide the space in one set of prints. In another set, color remains bright but it is no longer smooth and movement is more apparent. With the last group the sky is often interrupted by an almost blinding bright yellow light.
Also included in the exhibit are several large-scale figurative prints: monoprints with oil stick and pen and ink details. “It is hard for me to have a show and not have any figures; I am still extremely fascinated by the figure.”
Additionally, copies of Carter’s first book, Machiavellian Arts Management: Timeless Advice for 21st Century Arts Organizations will be available for purchase. This publication provides operating tactics for today’s organizations drawn from principles taken from Niccolo Machiavelli.
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