Drawing Center

Terry Winters

Facts and Fictions

31 Jan - 28 Apr 2019

Terry Winters
7-Fold Sequence, One, 2008
Graphite on paper
29 1/2 x 41 1/2 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery. Image © Terry Winters, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.
TERRY WINTERS
Facts and Fictions
31 January - 28 April 2019

Terry Winters: Facts and Fictions was on view at The University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst from January 31 - April 28, 2019. The Drawing Center's Terry Winters: Facts and Fictions was on view April 6–August 12, 2018 in our Main Gallery.

A leading figure in the art world for four decades, Terry Winters became well known in the 1980s for his materially-conscious drawings and paintings. Representing the patterns and schema that undergird physical and intellectual life—French philosopher Gilles Deleuze is cited as an important reference—Winters’s drawings of grids, networks, and knots illustrate complex encounters between biological drives, technological systems, and mental processes. The Drawing Center’s Main Gallery presents an overview of Winters’s drawings from 1980 to the present including full cycles of drawings as well as a selection of large-scale works on paper that foreground the overarching theme of Winters’s practice: the desire to make sense, however fictively, of the manner in which the visible world is constructed and received. Rather than offering a comprehensive drawing retrospective, the show is organized with an eye to morphological relationships so that, as viewers move through the gallery, they recall and ideally return to earlier related images.

Organized by Claire Gilman, Chief Curator.

Terry Winters: Facts and Fictions is made possible by Jack Shear; Agnes Gund; Kathy and Richard Fuld; The Ellsworth Kelly Foundation; Jane Dresner Sadaka and Ned Sadaka; Waqas Wajahat; and Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson.

Special thanks to Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.