Terry Winters and Ben Marcus

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Terry Winters was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1949. He attended the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan in the mid-1960s and received a BA in fine art, architecture and industrial design from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Winters is an accomplished artist in many media but is best known for his paintings drawn heavily from organic sources and much informed by his formal interest in architectural structures. He has had numerous solo exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe and Japan, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Walker Art Museum, and frequently featured in international exhibitions and biennales. His works are included in major museum collections which include the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Spain), Whitney Museum (US), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (US), Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (US) and the Tate Collection (UK). Many retrospective catalogues have been published to document his artistic career.

Ben Marcus was born in Chicago in 1967 and is an American author of surreal fiction. He received a BA from New York University, an MFA from Brown University and is currently a faculty member of the writing division in the School of the Arts at Columbia University. His writing is distinguished by sentences that are exact in their structure and syntax, but whose words, though familiar, appear to have abandoned their ordinary meanings; they can be read as experiments in the ways in which language and syntax themselves work to create structures of meaning. He is the author of three books of fiction, Notable American Women, The Father Costume and The Age of Wire and String. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Award, three Pushcart Prizes, and a fellowship from the Howard Foundation.

Turbulence Skins (2004)
Offset Lithography on Chartham Natural Translucent
35.5 x 28 cm / 14 x 11 in each Edition of 50, Portfolio of 40 plus cover and colophon
Published by the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University

T‘ urbulence Skins’ is an elaborate series of 42 offset lithographs documenting an artistic conversation by painter Terry Winters and writer Ben Marcus. The final edition contains notes for revision of both Marcus’ text and Winters’ images, which are evidence of the working process of collaboration. Marcus’ text is juxtaposed atop Post-it color grounds and depicts a travel story of a mysterious protagonist. Winters was sent the text in parts that enabled him to read and respond to the story in non-linear stages via his organic images. Each print is composed of fourteen offset lithography layers according to Winters’ notes. Typical of the expressionist drawings and paintings by Terry Winters, this distinctive portfolio of eccentric and organic images suggest an energy of seismic upheavals and experimental structures. The entire set of prints is a story to leaf through or view in its entirety as a multiple panel wall installation.