Robert Terry received attention in the early 1980s for his vivid and colorful landscape paintings. Terry's unique ability to combine neo-expressionism and realism makes his landscapes as much a mental as a physical experience.
Initially Terry’s heavy impasto colors seems to embrace one another and then strongly emphasize its independence. At close range the interaction between the layers of paint makes the work abstract. When backing up, however, the muddle clears up and a painterly romantic landscape appears.
Nature's connection to the nation is well spoken of in the romantic literature of the 19th century in which a country's nature is described in lofty, almost godlike terms. By choosing a passage from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem Nature as backdrop, Terry grants his nature sceneries a near theistic dimension.
For over a decade, Robert Terry has besides landscapes also created intense and at first glance conventional portrait of the American Civil War President Abraham Lincoln. On closer examination a remarkable consistency appears where size and color scheme in particular gives the series a striking uniformity.
As reproductions of reproductions, the Lincolns recalls Andy Warhol’s depictions of Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy but Terry’s examination of the iconic character continues in a sense where Warhol’s ends. They explore the psychological depth of the portrayal rather than the iconic surface. Unobstructed by the popular imagination Terry’s portraits transforms Lincoln the Legend into Lincoln the Man.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2010
Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2009
Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, Texas, USA
2006
Bernarducci.Meisel Gallery, New York, USA (with Charles Jarboe)
2005
Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, Texas, USA
2002
Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, Texas, USA
2000
Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
1992
Lobby Gallery, New York, USA
1987
Nanette Bearden Gallery, St. Martin, Netherlands Antilles
1986
Frank Bernarducci Gallery, New York, USA
1985
Frank Bernarduccis Gallery, New York, USA
1983
Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2004
Excessive, Unviersity of Texas, Dallas, USA
2001
To be a Face, Eugene Binder Gallery, Long Island City, New York, USA
1997
Realism after 7am, Hopper House Gallery, Nyack, New York, USA
1992
Christmas Show, John Post Lee Gallery, New York, USA
1988
Candidates for Awards, American Academy, New York, USA
1987
Candidates for Awards, American Academy, New York, USA
1986
Contemporary Landscape Painting, Museum of Art, Orlando, USA
Mainly on the plain, 56 Bleeker Gallery, New York, USA
American Citiscape, Frank Bernarducci Gallery, New York, USA
Night Landscape, Shriber Cutler Gallery, New York, USA
1984
Evolution, 7th Street Gallery, New York, USA
1983
Gallery Artists, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, USA
AWARDS
National Endowment for the Arts, Major Grant
Initially Terry’s heavy impasto colors seems to embrace one another and then strongly emphasize its independence. At close range the interaction between the layers of paint makes the work abstract. When backing up, however, the muddle clears up and a painterly romantic landscape appears.
Nature's connection to the nation is well spoken of in the romantic literature of the 19th century in which a country's nature is described in lofty, almost godlike terms. By choosing a passage from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem Nature as backdrop, Terry grants his nature sceneries a near theistic dimension.
For over a decade, Robert Terry has besides landscapes also created intense and at first glance conventional portrait of the American Civil War President Abraham Lincoln. On closer examination a remarkable consistency appears where size and color scheme in particular gives the series a striking uniformity.
As reproductions of reproductions, the Lincolns recalls Andy Warhol’s depictions of Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy but Terry’s examination of the iconic character continues in a sense where Warhol’s ends. They explore the psychological depth of the portrayal rather than the iconic surface. Unobstructed by the popular imagination Terry’s portraits transforms Lincoln the Legend into Lincoln the Man.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2010
Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2009
Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, Texas, USA
2006
Bernarducci.Meisel Gallery, New York, USA (with Charles Jarboe)
2005
Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, Texas, USA
2002
Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, Texas, USA
2000
Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
1992
Lobby Gallery, New York, USA
1987
Nanette Bearden Gallery, St. Martin, Netherlands Antilles
1986
Frank Bernarducci Gallery, New York, USA
1985
Frank Bernarduccis Gallery, New York, USA
1983
Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2004
Excessive, Unviersity of Texas, Dallas, USA
2001
To be a Face, Eugene Binder Gallery, Long Island City, New York, USA
1997
Realism after 7am, Hopper House Gallery, Nyack, New York, USA
1992
Christmas Show, John Post Lee Gallery, New York, USA
1988
Candidates for Awards, American Academy, New York, USA
1987
Candidates for Awards, American Academy, New York, USA
1986
Contemporary Landscape Painting, Museum of Art, Orlando, USA
Mainly on the plain, 56 Bleeker Gallery, New York, USA
American Citiscape, Frank Bernarducci Gallery, New York, USA
Night Landscape, Shriber Cutler Gallery, New York, USA
1984
Evolution, 7th Street Gallery, New York, USA
1983
Gallery Artists, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, USA
AWARDS
National Endowment for the Arts, Major Grant