Four from Folio

Terry Winters

(1985-1986)

A lithograph in which Terry Winters turns drawing into layered, biomorphic cloud-like forms—interlaced rings, elliptical apertures, and scrawled marks—to probe structure and process.

You first notice two hovering, nest-like masses—one light, one nearly black—stitched with hatched contours and punctuated by blue and yellow ovals against a smoky, smudged ground, as if viewing cells or pods through a rain-streaked lens.

This work shows Winters’s 1980s project of fusing diagram, biology, and architecture on the print surface, pushing printmaking toward complex, quasi-scientific abstractions that opened new directions for contemporary drawing and print practices.

Palette

Art Terms

Lithography Print Biomorphic Abstraction Gestural Drawing Edition

Exhibitions

Committed to Print

1988

American Prints, 1960–1985

1987

Twenty Lithographs: Graphic Art Processes

1941

A Penthouse Aviary

1980