Terri Warpinski Studio

I am a bit overwhelmed in this ‘moment’ I am having with recent work. I appreciate the encouragement that awards such as this provides. Too many times over the last 50 years (!) I have talked myself out of going after something I really wanted to accomplish in my creative practice because I didn’t feel ready or worthy.
Terri Warpinski

Ahh, the gallery[ newARTSpace ]is closed for the month of August - time for some people to get their own work done. Here’s a peek at various segments of work-in-progress.

Sneak peek!
The installation of the newest iteration of A Field Study for Recovery is now in place for the opening of The Contemporary tomorrow night. Through this work I seek to make visible a state of mind, a way of perceiving and connecting information and ideas across time and space that is not entirely visual in nature; and in doing so construct a narrative that is multi-stranded and open-ended addressing various notions related to time, observation, the accumulation of knowledge and the shadow of memory. This work is rooted in the histories and futures of our fragile ecosystem through an examination of our land preserves that are undergoing a process of re-wilding and ecological recovery.

I am excited to see this selection of Wisconsin artists, and delighted to be included in it!

Don't miss Wisconsin Visual Artists 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗦 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 this afternoon from 1 PM - 3 PM! Grab your friends and a drink and view the new art displayed in our galleries.

Juror commentary and awards at 2 PM! Free admission and open to the public.

Learn more at ➡️ https://www.thelmaarts.org/event/wva-perspectives-2023-opening-reception/

work-in-progress…
A few forays down blind alleys. As always, I love the adventure of not knowing exactly where I am going or what I will find.

The new year begins with a few lovely surprises that I will share over the next week or two. First, is an exhibition curated by Dr. Joanna Matuszak that features my work from Surface Tension that is in the permanent collection at NMSU. The exhibition announcement features my piece: Boyhood (two narratives).

Ad Infinitum: Artists Against War and Imperialism, Curated by Dr. Joanna Matuszak, opens on January 20, at 5:30PM!

On view: January 20 - May 20, 2023
Bunny Conlon Modern & Contemporary Art Gallery
This exhibit presents artworks and war-era posters and from the NMSU Permanent Art Collection that address twentieth-century imperialism and its effects: militarization, nuclear arms race, destruction of human lives, and damage to the natural environment. Curated by Dr. Joanna Matuszak, visiting Art History Professor in the Department of Art, this exhibition also highlights violence and methods of survival, which not only characterize wars, but are often enacted by children and adults in the form of games.
Including works from the NMSU Permanent Art Collection by: Mary Frances Babb, Lane Barden, Seymour Chwast, Sue Coe, John P. Geiger, Daniel Kasser, Joyce Kozloff, Eric LoPresti, and Terri Warpinski.

Image Credit: Terri Warpinski, Boyhood (Two Narratives), 2012, archival print on paper, 15.5 x 27.25 in. Courtesy of the NMSU Permanent Art Collection

I am pleased to be part of this 77-year tradition and to have my work recognized.

Details. It's all in the details. It is so easy to miss them. To look past them. To override them. To convince ourselves that they don't really count... or add up. When they do. They really do.
Every decision.
Every action.
Every failure to act. ..
Details from "Land/Trust: A Field Study for Recovery".

Full Circle? 41 years ago I woke up one January morning to learn I had been accepted into the annual juried art show at the museum. My piece - Pastoral Patchwork (a hand colored cyanotype on stitched paper) - was on the cover of the weekend arts section of the Green Bay News Chronicle. If that wasn’t enough, three of my very best art school friends were also acknowledged in the article: Dan Cross and Marjorie Mau also had their work reproduced, and Gisela Moyer, Marjorie Mau and I all were given merit awards. The news-clipping is worth reading as it catalogues the first cash award given to an artist in this exhibition occurred in 1981 when the juror insisted that her honorarium be awarded to the Best of Show.
I am very pleased to be included in this exhibition once again, now in its 77th year. It was 41 years that I last entered it. And once again, I am very honored to be selected for an Honorable Mention Award.
A posthumous thank you to my mother, Lucille Kehoe Warpinski, for securing my memories in epic scrapbooks).
Marjorie Mau Neville Public Museum Door County Land Trust Idea Gallery

Surface Tension: Three Landscapes of Division opened at the Door County Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Ephraim on August 3. The exhibition runs through the first week in October. On view are 20 selections from the 89 image project addressing the parallel border crises in Israel and the United States in contrast to present day Berlin. My deep appreciation to curator Karon Winzenz and the gallery committee of UUF and service leader Maryanne O'Dowd. It was an inspiring and meaningful occasion for me. Karon Winzenz ’Dowd
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County

News! Long delayed due to the global pandemic, an exhibition of my work and the related artist book, Surface Tension: Three Landscapes of Division, will show at the UU Gallery in Ephraim, Wi from Aug.7 - Oct. 3.
(If seeing this in person is within your realm, message me for further details if the information above is not sufficient!)

Since returning to Wisconsin I have admired the attention The Pulse gives to the fine and performing arts. This week I am pleased to be featured in a piece written by Tom Groenfeldt.
https://doorcountypulse.com/capturing-natures-reclamation-of-the-land-through-photographs/

Capturing Nature’s Reclamation of the Land Through Photographs - Door County Pulse Now that trees in Door County are finally leafing out, Terri Warpinski may take a break from her project of making black-and-white photographs on Door County Land Trust sites. “One of the things I love about seeing the non-leafed-out Land Trust properties is that I can define and distinguish many ...

In case you missed this post on other pages, don’t miss this show! On view until April 23. After which, we will go on a bit of a break to focus on our own work until the De Pere art walks return for the summer season on June 3rd . However, you can always reach out to us to visit our studio by appointment!

newARTSpace is open 1-5 Tuesday and Wednesday, and 12-4 on Saturday.Come check out NEW/ART II featuring Dan CROSS, Kristy DEETZ, Carol EMMONS, Tom FRIESE, Jane HOSTETLER, Minkyu LEE, Marjorie MAU, Karen STEWART, and Terri WARPINSKI.
Dan Cross Kristy Deetz .art
Jane Hostetler Lee Marjorie Mau
Terri Warpinski Photography

I am excited to be sharing some of my own new work, including a new installation piece from my Land/Trust project, alongside new work by 8 other fabulous artists. NEW/ART 2 opens tomorrow (3/10/22) newARTSpace in De Pere, WI.

Work-in-Progress from "Land/Trust" on view at the Kress Pavilion in Egg Harbor until May 28, 2022.The images here are selections from the mixed media work: (l)Abject Nest #3, 24" X 24" and (r) Blufflands [re]Construction, 16" X 28".

Sharing work-in-progress from the "Land/Trust" project currently installed at the Kress Pavilion in Egg Harbor, WI in the exhibition 'A Sense of Place' featuring my work alongside photographer Jim Perry. This magnificent being resides in the Preserve at Kangaroo Lake.
Print size 25"X 20"

I’m honored to be among the women in this collective - they have been a prominent part of my creative practice over the last two years. A huge gratitude to Urbanautica for shining a light on us!

Urbanautica Margaret LeJeune (ML): In Spring 2020, the Environmental Photography Collective (U.S.based artists Marion Belanger, Dana Fritz, Margaret LeJeune, Judy Natal, Martina Shenal, Terri Warpinski) was born out of a desire to create a more inclusive space in the historically androcentric fields of landscap...

An exhibition featuring a large sampling of my newest project, Land/Trust, is on view until May 29, 2022 at the beautiful Kress Pavilion in Egg Harbor, Wisconsin.

The Egg Harbor Public Arts Initiative and The Kress Pavilion are pleased to be featuring scenes of the Door County Land Trust as envisioned by artists Terri Warpinkski and Jim Perry. The exhibit will run starting February 3 through May 29, and the public is invited to the opening reception.

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‼️Come on out‼️

Opening this week at the Maude Kerns Art Center in Eugene along with my collaborator Laura Winter, and Marcus De Sieno and Richard Keis!

Interrupted by the pandemic, the SECURA 40th Annual Fine Arts exhibition at the Trout Museum remains available through their website:
https://troutmuseum.org/view/virtual-exhibit-40th-annual-secura-fine-arts-exhibition/
On view, when the museum reopens, and in the virtual exhibition in the meantime, are works by a remarkable group of 92 Wisconsin artists. Three works from my Death|s|trip project are included.

Thank you to the Center for Fine Art Photography for the shoutout today!

Continuing a survey of images and artists of The Center's exhibitions.

Terri Warpinski's series, Surface Tension, featured in Portfolio ShowCase 7, holds the test of time and continues to reevaluate the consequences of political borders and the human cost of Othering at the geopolitical level.

Surface Tension : : US - Mexico / Israel - Palestine / Berlin

My work is driven by the conviction that a border is as much a process as it is a physical location -- a construction that is a conscious human determination. It is a decision. Its consequences are many: social, political, environmental, economic, and psychological, extending down to the individual person as well as Incurring global effects.

Surface Tension, two geographies half-a-world apart, the U.S-Mexico borderland and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, are seen in parallel with present-day Berlin. Through these photographs, I probe varying aspects of power and conflict and the consequences incurred when national desires for security dominate other social or environmental concerns.

http://www.c4fap.org/exhibitions/terri-warpinski/

2020 updates (1)
2019 was full. So full! Too full? And in the blur I did not keep up with posting much in the realm of my creative activities. So I will begin a recap with this update: I continue to exhibit work from Surface Tension: Three Landscapes of Division, last seen in its entirety at the Besse Gallery at Bay College in Escanaba, Michigan last September. At the same time I exhibited work in a invitational group exhibition titled "The Museum of Natural Inspiration" at the Lawton Gallery of the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay. A variation of that work is currently on view at the Kress Pavilion in Egg Harbor, Wisconsin. My contribution is an installation titled "Emptied Nests".

Bay College announces opening reception for art exhibition ESCANABA– Bay College announces the exhibition and reception for Surface Tension, photography by Terri Warpinski. At the Besse Gallery on Tuesday, September 3, 2019 at 2 PM a Reception and Ar…