| Show Ritual fmds place in work of UAC fellow By Ann Poore Tribune Staff Writer LOGAN — Christopher Terry has been painting a simple blue cup for more than six years now It will likeof canvases he'll ly figure in a series create through Ihis recent fellowship award from the Utah Arts Council it may appear in work done during his September residency at the Millay Colony for the Arts in New York it's Included in still-lif- e — 't paintings It ' to2'' -- ti f : ' "I really like Ithe form and the way the color changes depending on the way light strikes it I could get very technical and talk about the seemingly paradoxical changes in intensiI'm very much wrapped up in ty an almost obsessive kind of observation" the artist acknowledged Terry 34 said that noting those kinds of things generates the work he does and encourages him "to create situations that are almost ritualistic in the lighting and in the posi- -61 1 '31Y44 - t It 1 ' - - A‘- N 'FA If V ' LaI d' ' I l i i0 fi :01 Atoma -- 2'4- Christopher Terry Interior Painter objects" In the six years since he found the blue cup Terry's work has involved "fairly innocuous maybe even domestic kinds of situations" But the objects that go into his paintings are never arranged in a utilitarian manner you can't picture people eating a meal at a table set by this artist scape "We had the San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles but you only saw them twice a year on a real clear day" He wants to do a series of 30 landscape paintings but isn't sure how successful he's been to date "As far as I'm concerned the jury is still out on whether I should be doing landscape painting" In college he set out to learn to draw the figure a skill he now describes as anachronistic "like somebody wanting to learn to make wagon wheels Everybody gets into this for the wrong reasons" Terry still does but finds an occasional there are too many drawbacks to using the figure as a subject "I used to paint with people there and you're really tied to how long they are willing to sit for you They want to talk frequently They want to look at the painting and see how it's coming along and I don't want them to" He also found he was spending far too much time trying to correct for instance an eye that was first too high and then too low "I don't like things to be misshapen unless I intentionally distort them I like to get a drawing right and the tolerances when you're drawing a picture are fairly loose You can be off by quite a bit and still make the picture very convincing But if you raise the corner of somebody's mouth a sixteenth of an inch you make them look real on-si- te refer to normal human activity" Terry said "But on the other hand they don't appear to be arranged with necessarily an aesthetic situation in mind" He believes the implied ritual he observes in much of his work is tied in with a Roman Catholic childhood: he attended parochial schools and served as an altar boy "I was one of the last guys to learn Latin before the church changed over" But the ritual in his work isn't conscious he and trying to make a point life after death There's no real doctrine or message involved I'm just trying to create a situation that's charged with those kinds of guess I do that because feelings I'm really fascinated by form and it seems that the forms of these very simple objects and the way light reveals them is a special kind of thing" Canvases still wrapped in bubble plastic from a show last year at San Francisco's Contemporary Realist Gallery are stacked in a corner of the studio landscape studies are scattered here and there Terry who left California State University at Long Beach two years ago to teach at USU is "astounded" by the Logan land I ' I 1 :s ' : :' ' 7 '' cy0(1 z' 4 1 t ' " '' ' i'' : I I '' ' ' ' aa V r- 1 7- - ' 1 7''' i 4 '!' - 1 6kiAd ' : t 4 " — 1 nity Art Center Friday through Sept 29 in 1 i Zhu works in oil and watercolors both traditional Chinese and sik 'q'' --- ': ( II OSIA Landscapes by Rett Ashby a - 3900 SO WASATCH i I ' 1 4700 it 75 915 Zjuge 101 sril A NOON IN13) Et 111112NEMASIN I 1 DAY NW wa- I N 1 "lit tt - 1115 1 3105 NOE itAD 3100 rl IVIAI (PG-I- 7:2025 at° tiO "DARKMANn "MATUNERSn ot or (3 - !a - ith-- 'shte4s":edveningItimP I "RetresPrivhianteglYaFgann k Mani) vf- 1 reitris AVAIL API F Disc IIn -- in -- - ARKE Zi MEW - Ms2-'- " 00' - i!'k t I W9 4 e E315376021 Benefit o (members & their guests comrDY COM MY COMEDY COKEDY i I tooobdpwowmkwitgosowooometo k (1041) ' if Dolby Steno - 1 I 1 Th4 ?- TA 74 ‘‘-- 4 t ‘f : ill -- - "DARKM' AN" !0111- - "MEN AT WORK" TS SLIM i p 144441" 1 lig Complete Package f SALE EVER ON t 1 - a I - - I 36500 'mite N0 1 - 4f fel A T' aribmi 7'11 S" 1990 Reg Hi VE tado 4uo 66Z d 000 Mflart!rtle Arta L '‘--4it -t 0488 I :: ti Reg 32500 s e t1157iNow - 0 ESN "SPECTRA" SKIS 1 tii - 61SI)1 UM M :a '- 0 (3 STIOSI0 10 -- IIGLOVES IP1011 - 011B t - ' A I ?p 9 4 ' If f 111A ler - 28000 19500 11500 2500 1500 63000 29 999 NOW! 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''t ' 1 20 - When he started to work from in -- 1 ) SKI I 4 I edersertys stupid" - - servation" The work will still deal with interi - self-portra- it said "It's not as though I'm sitting A ' - work from direct observation "My memory definitely enhances the kind of dreamlike quality a lot of these paintings have but I feel like there's something missing too Something is lost at the same time" Terry said he is easily distracted when he's in the beginning stages of a painting Once everything is described he can work for hours in almost a trancelike state He generally works on a group of about four paintings at the same time They are usually related in some way- -' the next group is slightly different Terry prepared for his month at the Milla Colony (originally endowed by Pulitzer-winnin- g poet Edna St Vincent Millayi by stretching half a dozen canvases and doing some of the drawing He wanted to be able to start painting on arrival "It's a fairly Spartan existence like going on a religious retreat maybe You just work all the time" Two pieces are in progress near the studio door "Frankly I'm not all that excited about either of them I'm looking forward to these" Terry said pointing out several blank canvases The artist received his bachelor's in studio art from Rhode Island College at Providence in 1978 and was awarded a master's in painting from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1981 He is represented in Utah by the Phillips galleries Terry's wife weaver Diane Graham Terry will remain in Logan with their children Graham and Christine and Clover the dog while the artist is in New York 1wC alAtryr i 141 of down about - -- University —They don't - - """""1 ors Terry said But be may choose to still-lif- e objects he "could just forget gill that technical stuff and think about parts of the painting that were a lot more interesting to me" Terry said he is concerned more than anything else with formal problems when he paints "Whatever concepts might be involved in a painting usually grow out of formal considerations like color and composition and shape and that kind of thing" ion neeroFftAwnothi9o9n Salt Lake oy Smith was td UAC Fellowships to work outside Utah for a year for his award Terry proposed an interior painting project of 20 works dealing with man's relation to the metaphysical While preparing the proposal Terry was reading Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum "I was definitely influenced by the kinds of things that were in that book I'm not sure how important it is to my work in the long run" He expects the proposal will be modified by the time he begins work "After writing it I finished the book and felt kind of let down by the conclusion Something similar is actually happening in the paintings in that it seemed like a great idea but now the actual doing of it is not what it's supposed to be" The series of paintings was to deal with imagined interiors Terry explained that "they involved the same kinds of objects that I have painted in the past The idea is that now I'm trying to paint them from memory as opposed to looking at them It's not really turning out all that well I feel I need to get back to more direct ob- :'' (- propped about the small studio be hind Terry's home near Utah State tion tenors and subsequently a 0 E9 The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday Sept( mber 2 1990 EITIE 1---- --i k t lk0661 1 T 0p VALLEY FAIR MALL 6M4AlL7L1 9 WIIVERSITY MALL OREM PME 1 1 COTTOI1WOOD MALL 278-535- 3 225-300- 0 1 I I LOWEST PRICE We guarantee we will meet or beat any advertised price Bring in competitor's ad If we have the same merchandise in stock we will beat the price 11461711-LT17- CROSSROADS 355-411- 1 I t PEDERSEN'S GUARANTEES 3 0 V- LAYTON HILLS VIALL (:i-i-- i i --'1 i t--- t - rl -- 546-314- 3 OGDEll CITY MALL 621-473- 3 - 0- - -- I 1 -- - 1' i il |
