Terry, Lawrence (Walking Between World)

"Walking Between World" by Lawrence Terry 23” x 25” mixed media on paper (2018).  Acrylic, burnt and smoked hues, collage papers, ink.  Assemblage -- framed Terry was born in St Louis, MO in 1952.  He grew up in a military family and lived both abroad and in the states in what for many years was an uprooted and unpredictable existence. Drawing became the companion that accompanied him and sustained him, and set the stage for what was to follow. Terry went to Louisville School of Art and in 1978 moved to New York City, where he attended the School of Visual Arts.  His relationship with fire as an artistic medium began in the eighties. Terry was fascinated by flame, and also by its by-product, smoke, which could be used for marking surfaces.  He found the mystery and power of fire incredibly compelling, and loved the challenge of both the need for control, and the simultaneous freedom he experienced with it as a medium. Working with fire became an organic process, an elemental communion