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ARTISTS	Terry Ward	Copying images without permission is prohibited. Per US Copyright Act of 1976, artist maintains Copyright –even of sold works.
Trivia: two Nobel Peace Prize winners are also owners of Terry Ward artwork : Al Gore and Jimmy Carter. Ward’s current (2008 and later) artwork is all on 1 ft x 6.5 ft wooden panels --most configured for omnidirectional hanging: any panel can be hung horizontally, vertically, or at an angle. Most of the art is in series groups; so one individual unit, or several units, or the entire series group may be hung in any configuration. Ward leaves the configuration to the gallery staff (and encourages curatorial creativity when it comes to the hanging). Depending on the configuration, a six-unit series group can easily fill 50 linear feet of wallspace. A crate or two can fill a gallery room easily. For their size, the panels are lightweight, usually weighing just 11 pounds. The style is some manner of ironic Post-Modern Brut Pop Abstract-Expressionism. Where Jackson Pollack's dripwork action painting left off, Ward expands with new effects like shading on some drips or use of gravity effects to marbleize and commingle colors. Use of collage, industrial stencils, found objects, spray effects, and occasional gunfire is typical. Ward sometimes includes cut-down portions of realistic paintings in the nonobjective action paintings. For detailed ESSAY click here (.pdf file). NOT ALL TERRY WARD ARTWORK IS LISTED ON THIS WEBPAGE. Samples: Series 100 . Folder of pics . Omnidirectional mixed media action painting on wood. (aka Zen Pow ) Branching dripwork with some paint applied by gunfire --a meditation on the peaceful use of weapons. $1500 per panel. Up to eight units, each unit 1ft by 6.5ft; overall dimensions variable from 1x6.5ft up to 6.5x20ft or 1x100ft. Series 90. Folder of pics . Omnidirectional mixed media action painting on wood. (aka The Deletion ) Digits and letters dissolving into brushstrokes and trailing drips. $1500 per panel. Up to four units, each unit 1ft by 6.5ft; overall dimensions variable from 1x6.5ft up to 6.5x20ft or 1x50ft. Series 80. Folder of pics. Omnidirectional mixed media action painting with oil, acrylic, radio parts, teeth, gnats, lights, and wingnuts on wood. (aka RushBeck HanniHate) With an “ON AIR” sign glowing in his ample belly and with a lit AM tuner dial in his big open mouth, the empty-headed RushBeck HanniHate is shouting his latest rant into the airwaves. His golf ball eyes bulge. He treads on flags of Canada, Mexico, France and the UN. This series mocks Rush Limbaugh / Glenn Beck / Sean Hannity sorts of commentators without specifying which one is the subject ---maybe they all are since they’re so much alike. $1500 per panel. Up to two units, each unit 1ft by 6.5ft; overall dimensions variable from 1x6.5ft up to 1x15ft or others. Series 70. Folder of pics. Mixed media action painting with military uniform pieces, burnt tires, and objects on wood. (aka Stop Loss ) Some of the brushstrokes are actually small texts quoting things people say about new recruits ("Momma's little girl is all grown up now", "The discipline will do him good", etc) or motivations for enlisting ("Money for college", "Straighten my life out", "See the world", etc). These are obscured by clues that a roadside bomb has taken soldiers' lives. A "futility of war" monument. $1500 per panel. Up to eight units, each unit 1ft by 6.5ft; overall dimensions variable from 1x6.5ft up to 6.5x20ft or 1x100ft. (Note: Panels A, B no longer available --Jimmy Carter collection.) Series 60. Folder of pics. Omnidirectional mixed media action painting and collage on wood. (aka Ashcroft's Fig Leaves) An anti-censorship piece, this recalls the censorship under John Ashcroft of the statue Spirit of Justice (off-site link) in Washington DC. Outlines show where fig leaves had been ---with the word "remove" stenciled in places. $1500 per panel. Up to eight units, each unit 1ft by 6.5ft; overall dimensions variable from 1x6.5ft up to 6.5x20ft or 1x100ft. Series 50. Folder of pics. Mixed media action painting and collage on wood. (aka Flag) ”Stars and tiny scattered crosses ---maybe for fallen troops, maybe for aimpoints--- with Cold War era newspaper clippings, foreign newspapers, crime scene tape, and occasional words like OIL, BOMB; SHALL; ENHANCE; BUY, UP; and others.” $1500 per panel. Up to six units, each unit 1ft by 6.5ft; overall dimensions variable from 1x6.5ft up to 6.5x20ft or 1x50ft. Series 40. Folder of pics. Omnidirectional mixed media action painting and collage with legalese on wood. (aka Res Ipsa) "Thick paintflows on one end, fading to painterly white brushstrokes, then to a darker area where bits of legalism hide ---words like WHEREAS, MOOT, POSIT, VOID, and others... After all, leagalism is everywhere.” $1500 per panel. Up to eight units, each unit 1ft by 6.5ft; overall dimensions variable from 1x6.5ft up to 6.5x20ft or 1x100ft. Series 30. Folder of pics. Omnidirectional mixed media action painting and collage on wood. (aka Begotten Forgotten) Viewable by day and night ---best explained in this essay (.pdf file). $1500 per panel. Up to two units, each unit 1ft by 6.5ft; overall dimensions variable from 1x6.5ft up to 1x15ft or others. Series 21. Folder of pics. Omnidirectional mixed media action painting and collage on wood. ”Another response to the so-called ‘galleries’ which fill their walls with ‘decorator’ canvases made is foreign sweatshop factories rather than real artwork by real artists….I tracked down one of the actual overseas art factories and ordered a bundle of those d@mned wine pictures, Tuscan landscapes, and Parisian street cafes ---and chopped them up on my paper cutter for collage parts. This one even has many paired or tripled snippets with the same subject, showing how the factories made multiple copies of the same painting.” $1500 per panel. Up to eight units, each unit 1ft by 6.5ft; overall dimensions variable from 1x6.5ft up to 6.5x20ft or 1x100ft. Series 20. Folder of pics. Omnidirectional mixed media action painting and collage on wood. ”A response to the so-called ‘galleries’ which fill their walls with ‘decorator’ canvases made is foreign sweatshop factories rather than real artwork by real artists….I tracked down one of the actual overseas art factories and ordered a bundle of those d@mned wine pictures, Tuscan landscapes, and Parisian street cafes ---and chopped them up on my paper cutter for collage parts.” $1500 per panel. Up to eight units, each unit 1ft by 6.5ft; overall dimensions variable from 1x6.5ft up to 6.5x20ft or 1x100ft. Series 10. Folder of pics. Omnidirectional mixed media action painting and collage on wood. ”I began this painting as a response to living in the South; I knew there had to be ‘no trespassing’ signs, shooting targets, and feed sacks involved --and I improvised from there” $1500 per panel. Up to six units, each unit 1ft by 6.5ft; overall dimensions variable from 1x6.5ft up to 6.5x20ft or 1x50ft. Also: Terry Ward filmography click here (off-site: IMDB.com). top
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