Plate (folio 5) from Beginning Being an Engine
Terry Winters
American, born 1949
2020
A woodcut from Terry Winters’s artist book that layers carved wood-grain texture and stacked biomorphic black forms opposite a spare fragment of text to suggest systems of thought and growth.
What hits you first is the red, striated field—like the rubbed grain of a block—punctuated by clustered, inky black blobs that read as cellular or cloud-like masses stacked vertically while the facing page holds a few restrained lines of poetry.
Winters uses a traditional woodcut technique within an illustrated book to link image and text, renewing printmaking as a way to visualize networks of process—biological, geological, and cognitive—and to extend modernist abstraction into contemporary concerns.
Medium
One from an illustrated book with thirteen woodcuts
Dimensions
composition: 14 × 11" (35.5 × 28 cm); page (each): 15 × 11 15/16" (38.1 × 30.4 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Acquired through the generosity of Kathy and Richard S. Fuld, Jr.
Accession
27.2020.5
Palette
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