Untitled #6

Terry Winters (born 1949, Brooklyn, NY) is an American painter, draughtsman, and printmaker whose nuanced approach to the process of painting has addressed evolving concepts of spatiality and expanded the concerns of abstract art. His attention to the process of painting and investigations into systems and spatial fields explores both non-narrative abstraction and the physicality of modernism. In Winters’ work, abstract processes give way to forms with real word agency that recall mathematical concepts and cybernetics, as well as natural and scientific worlds. Terry Winters' prints are integrally linked to his paintings and drawings. Winters began making prints with Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE) in 1982, and since this first lithograph, Ova, he has worked in the full range of print techniques. Winters’s imagery is equally expansive. Frequently organized in serial groupings, his prints display free floating cellular structures or clusters of spirals, knots, grids, and veined networks. Occasionally he incorporates texts or numbers into his works, as in his Tokyo Notes series (2005). He has also used printmaking to initiate collaborations, working with the literary critic Jean Starobinski on Perfection, Way, Origin (2001), the novelist Ben Marcus on Turbulence Skins (2004), and the essayist Eliot Weinberger on In Blue (2008). In addition to ULAE, Winters has created prints with many other internationally recognized print publishers including The Grenfell Press and Two Palms in New York, Aldo Crommelynck in Paris, KIDO Press in Tokyo, and Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles.