Fourteen Etchings 6

Terry Winters

1989

A print made with etching, aquatint, and photogravure that pairs a speckled, cellular-looking field of ink droplets with a small grayscale image of a human shoulder, prompting a reading of texture as anatomical or data-like.

On a wide white sheet a large, roughly square panel of clustered black speckles—ranging from fine grain to round droplets—sits above a smaller, soft-focus photogravure of a shoulder skeleton, their contrasting scales and surfaces creating a tense, clinical–abstract conversation.

By blending traditional intaglio techniques with photographic processes and scientific imagery, Winters pushed abstraction toward a language of systems and observation, bridging microscopic, anatomical, and cartographic modes of seeing.

Palette

Art Terms

Aquatint Etching Photogravure Intaglio Print Abstraction Contemporary art Figurative

Exhibitions

Committed to Print

1988

American Prints, 1960–1985

1987

Twenty Lithographs: Graphic Art Processes

1941

New Art for the New Year

1977