Terry Allen’s recent exhibition at Ohio State University was chosen as “Best of 2014.” Here’s why:
Terry Allen is an artist working on a number of levels and has an extensive portfolio of public sculpture commissions. With Allen being commissioned by the City of Columbus for a piece on the Scioto Mile, the Urban Arts Space showed the thought process the artist puts into his public sculptures — which is truly incredible. Allen’s sketches are filled with notes about the many ideas — from intelligence and challenging to hilarious and occasionally puerile — he’s contemplating about sight-specific installations. It’s the incredible detail and candor in these notes that had me spending hours inside the downtown gallery.
via: columbusalive.com
To learn more about Terry Allen and to see how some of these proposal drawings materialized into actual works, click here for his artist profile on our website.
IMAGE: Terry Allen, Notebook Study for NICE, 1991, gouache, ink, color pencil, framed: 24 ¼ x 21 in. (61.6 x 53.3 cm)