Alpha 137 Gallery

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Alpha 137 Gallery

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Terry Winters

(American, born 1949)
Terry Winters is a contemporary American painter and printmaker. With a wide-ranging and eclectic practice, Winters conflates organic abstraction and mathematical systems into complex compositions that reference computation, architecture, and genetic chains. His biomorphic paintings explore the limits of Modernist traditions through their intricately patterned surfaces. “There’s not a one-to-one relationship between the image and what it stands for in the world,” the artist has said painting. “There are shifting meanings which have the characteristics of metaphor.” Born in Brooklyn, NY in 1949, he completed his BFA at Pratt Institute in 1971. Over the next decade, Winters rose to prominence in the New York scene...