Terry Winters

Who is Terry Winters?

Terry Winters is an American painter, draftsman, and printmaker, whose work reintroduced figuration in a way that was consonant with the Modernist legacy. Klaus Kertess wrote that “in the mid 1970s, Terry Winters and such peers as Carroll Dunham, Bill Jensen, and Stephen Mueller began to feel increasingly constricted by painting’s and drawing’s phenomenological order and orders. How to reintegrate more variegated mark making and spatiality, how to give body not just to process but to metaphor, without sacrificing the hard-won physicality and non-narrative abstractness so crucial to late Modernism—all of these became overriding concerns.” His work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions, including major retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is found in the collections of numerous museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and others. He is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York.