Published on the occasion of the artist's first solo exhibition with Modern Art, and his first solo 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". Winters’ works contain within themselves sets of possibilities: calculated and spontaneous, restrained and emotional – both technically determined and lyrically improvised.

Terry Winters was born in 1949 in Brooklyn, NY. He lives and works in New York City and Columbia County, NY. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at museums across the United States and Europe, including the Drawing Center, NY, USA (2018); University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA (2018); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA (2017); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (2014); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2009); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, USA (2001); Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2000); Whitechapel Gallery, London (1999); Victoria and Albert Museum, London (1998); Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, USA (1992); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA (1991); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA (1987) Tate Gallery London (1986).