Plate (folio 5 verso) from Beginning Being an Engine
Terry Winters
American, born 1949
2020
A woodcut from an illustrated artist’s book in which Terry Winters pairs a bold, tactile print with a spare block of text to investigate how organic-looking forms and language shape perception and thought.
A dense, textured black oval dominates the left page, set against a field of red horizontal hatch marks and a scattering of smaller black ovals that seem to pulse and radiate, while the right page leaves ample white space around a three-line poem, creating a striking tension between visual density and verbal restraint.
By marrying traditional woodcut printmaking with fragmentary text in a hand-made book, Winters brings modernist interests in form, systems, and cognition into a contemporary exploration of how images and words make visible processes of division, emergence, and thought.
Medium
One from an illustrated book with thirteen woodcuts
Dimensions
composition: 14 1/16 × 11" (35.7 × 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
27.2020.6
Palette
Exhibitions
