terry winters

Terry Winters (b. 1949) is a contemporary American painter and printmaker represented in depth in the Belger Collection. A native New Yorker, Winters graduated from Pratt Institute in 1971, focusing on painting.  Through the 1970s, while studying nature, especially molecular-level life forms, Winters honed his craft as a drawer and a painter until he was ready for his inaugural exhibition in 1982 at the prestigious Sonnabend Gallery.  Later that same year he began his first foray into printmaking at Universal Limited Art Editions on Long Island. 

First developed in his paintings, Winters' subject matter of entelechy, combined with his distinctive use of materials, played a significant part in revitalizing abstract imagery in the late 20th century.

Winters' "overlapping concerns," as he states it, are to integrate the more figurative drawings of his prints into the syntax of his abstract painting. Winters explained in 1986, "I have tried to use the media of painting, drawing, and printmaking equally without any kind of importance." His 1992 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art gave equal wall space to prints, paintings, and drawings. Winters’ penchant for working in series, his love of mark-making, and his treatment of technical materials as alchemical fodder make his work particularly well-suited for the complex art of printmaking.

Winters became one of the leading printmakers in the United States. Over the years, his paintings, drawings, and prints have been featured in major retrospectives at the Boston Museum of Fine Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.