Signs, Games, Messages

Published on the occasion of the artist's first solo exhibition with Modern Art, London, and his first  exhibition in the UK in two decades. 

 

Across four decades of his work, Terry Winters has been examining, in various iterations, the relationships between modernist abstraction, information systems, and the architecture of the natural world. While predominantly a painter, Winters is also known for his drawing and printmaking; each of these different media further his overall project – where mark making is seen as a pictorial process. And where each medium is used to reveal new subjects and possible meanings. As Winters has said: “I’m trying to engineer the paintings to the point where there is a likeness, a sense of life – that the abstract images are somehow real".