June 12 – September 30, 2001
The Lila Acheson Wallace Wing
A retrospective exhibition of prints by the American artist Terry Winters will open June 12, 2001, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Approximately ninety works created between 1983 and the present, all from the Museum's collections, will be on view through September 30 in the Helen and Michael Kimmelman Gallery of the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing for modern art.
Internationally known for his paintings, watercolors, and drawings, Winters is also one of the most distinguished contemporary printmakers. He has explored a wide range of media at workshops such as Universal Limited Art Editions in West Islip, Long Island, and the Aldo Crommelynck studio in Paris. The exhibition will contain lithographs, etchings, aquatints, woodcuts, and linoleum cuts, and will feature individual prints as well as complete portfolios of closely related works.
Winters's imagery is abstract yet retains elements of representation. In early works such as Morula I, II, and III of 1983-84 (morula is Latin for mulberry), Winters's huge forms are drawn from the microscopic world of spherical embryonic masses of fertilized ova. Each sheet of the portfolio Fourteen Etchings of 1989 combines a photogravure of an X-ray of different parts of a human skeleton with a separately printed, larger chine collé element containing abstract forms. In the more recent portfolio of six linoleum cuts, Glyphs of 1995, on indigo dyed paper, Winters inked the backgrounds a rich black and left the imagery—webs of irregular geometric grids—inkless but vivid as the cool blue of the paper.
Terry Winters was born June 1, 1949, in Brooklyn, New York. He attended the High School of Art and Design and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in 1971. His first one-artist exhibition took place in 1982. In 1991-92 a midcareer retrospective of his work was organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. He has also had one-artist exhibitions at the Tate Gallery in London, the Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland, Milwaukee Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts and, last year, at the IVAM Centre del Carme in Valencia, Spain, and the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. Winters is married to the writer-curator Hendel Teicher. They live in Tribeca and in Geneva, Switzerland.
A variety of educational programs will be offered in conjunction with the exhibition.
Terry Winters: Printmaker is organized by Nan Rosenthal, Consultant, Department of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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November 13, 2000
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