Terry Winters Prints 1982-1998

The Detroit Institute of Art from September 26, 1998 through February 7, 1999 presented a major retrospective of the printmaking oeuvre of the internationally acclaimed artist Terry Winters. Concurrent with the exhibition, Hudson Hills Press published a full-color catalogue raisonne written by Nancy Sojka, with the assistance of Nancy Watson Barr, and featuring an essay by Richard Axsom. This widely acclaimed exhibition has now been organized into a comprehensive travelling exhibition by Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York. Entitled Terry Winters Prints 1982-1998, the retrospective is scheduled to exhibit at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in North Carolina from October 23, 1999 - February 6, 2000, Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Maine from April 6 – June 4, 2000, and will travel to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island (dates pending). The exhibition and catalogue raisonne represent the first exhaustive look at the complete and enigmatic print work of one of America’s leading painters. The artist’s 1992 retrospective at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art established his intuitive, painterly, expressive style and rigorous organic abstract image vocabulary as major formal and conceptual forces in contemporary art. Terry Winters Prints 1982-1998 offers a comprehensive study of Winters’ deep commitment to printmaking's diverse, intimate range of metaphor. Terry Winters Prints 1982-1998 is comprised of sixteen often large scale images and seven multi-work portfolios containing eighty-eight prints in a variety of print media including etching, lithograph, wood and lino cuts. This cross section of work underscores the artist’s powerful draftsmanship and his mastery of, and sensitivity to, printmaking media. The exhibition traces his unique synthesis of natural geometric structures and strategies of abstraction, from his 1984 Morula lithographs through his widely inventive early 90’s color etchings to the packed grid structures of recent intaglios and computer-aided woodcuts. With the collaboration of well-known print ateliers such as Peter Blum Editions, Aldo Crommelynck, Grenfell Press, Two Palms Press and Universal Limited Art Editions, Winters’ vision pushes the formal and technical boundaries of print media.