Terry Miller

Graphite artist

studio news

Spring 2008
Spring bulbs are popping up everywhere, migratory birds are stopping by the backyard feeders and Terry is hard at work on the final pieces that will be hung this summer at the Woodson Art Museum during the exhibition, ‘Unknown Bridges’, which opens to the public on Saturday, June 28th. For those who have not yet discovered it, Terry has opened a special blog page for this exhibition - http://unknownbridges.blogspot.com/ - where he has been posting the new works as they come off the drawing board. The exhibition will be comprised of 28 works done over the last four years and he is in the process of putting together a book to document this exhibition. News on the publication of the book will be made available both on the Unknown Bridges blog page as well as his main blog page, Pencil Shavings, which can be linked from this site.

The Woodson Art Museum is planning several opening weekend events that Terry will be a part of. These begin on Friday evening, June 27th, with a museum members' reception which will be followed on Saturday by the public opening of the exhibition as well as a drawing workshop that Terry will host. Then, on Sunday the 29th, Terry will present a lecture on one of his favorite topics, a discussion of the basic elements of design and composition in art.

As a well composed, balanced and interesting work of art has always been the end aim for Terry, this talk will focus on how artists have incorporated seven basic elements of design into their works, both figurative and abstract, and he will use many illustrations of works from well known and not-so-well known figures in art and architecture from the ancient Greeks through to Jackson Pollack, to emphasize this. Touching on the basics of the ‘rule of thirds’ as well as how aspects of the Golden Mean have found their way into many works hanging in museums and galleries alike, Terry will speak about how important it is for the artist to put it all together, ‘bit by bit’, and how viewers of art can have a stronger appreciation for and understanding of what constitutes a well balanced, interesting and possibly thought provoking work of art and just why that work of art is spotlighted in a museum or gallery.

Terry’s work will hang at the Woodson in conjunction with a major look at the evocative black and white photographs of O. Winston Link, who spent several years documenting the change over from steam to diesel locomotives on the Norfolk and Western Railroad during the late 1950s and early 60s, as well as life along the rails during that slower, less hectic time in history. Terry is quite familiar with Link’s work, having copies of several books with Link’s photos included in his library, as well as having been a life-long fan of ‘the romance of the rails’, and he is honored to have his work hang along side that of Link during this two month long exhibition in Wisconsin. If visiting the area near Wausau in July or August this summer, do plan to stop by the Woodson - www.lywam.org - to see these two black and white exhibitions.

And as a final note, Terry will also be preparing new works that will be a part of a three person showing at his Annapolis Gallery, the Main Street Gallery, opening in late May and running through the early weeks of June.