This compelling geometric still life oil painting stands as a definitive visual statement within the highly celebrated Paintings collection by contemporary artist Christopher T. Terry Relying on tight architectural staging and high-contrast rendering to map out a structural narrative, the artwork masterfully tracks the formal qualities of everyday objects and non-objective weight. The horizontal layout anchors a powerful perspective tracking a bright yellow teapot and a massive orange banana squash resting over a teal table edge covered by a light tablecloth, using strategic studio lighting to turn organic fruit lines and ceramic curves into an elegant topographic scenery of pure conceptual gravity and quiet luxury.
When an artist works with more conventional still life subjects, they focus primarily on the formal properties of the painting, such as color relationships, form, proportions, and other qualities typically associated with non-objective works. Still life offers the artist considerable freedom in these aspects of visual art, yet it retains the limitations of representation. It is a challenge that the artist enjoys exploring.
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Geometric Still Life Oil Painting - Bananekürbis, 2009. By Christopher Terry
Bananekürbis, 2009
From The Paintings Series
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28 H x 40 W x 1 D in.
Signed at the back.
Mounted on a stretcher
Christopher T. Terry was born in Stamford, Connecticut and studied Painting at Rhode Island College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has exhibited his work throughout the United States and is currently represented by galleries in Manhattan and Charlotte, NC. He is the recipient of numerous awards as a painter including the Utah Visual Artist Fellowship, and a WESTAF/NEA Fellowship in Painting. He has twice been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for Teaching and Research in Germany and in 2000 was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome.
Terry taught at universities in the U. S. and Germany and served for ten years as Associate Dean in the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University. He left academia in 2020 to work full-time as a painter.
