Terry StringerBeppu Wiarda Gallery

For the month of September, Beppu Wiarda Gallery is presenting leading New Zealand sculptor Terry Stringer. His work has been exhibited internationally since 1978. He is a key figure in the history of art in New Zealand, a fact acknowledged in 2003 when he received the country’s national honor, the Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit. The September 2008 exhibit at beppu wiarda gallery, titled “Head Room,” includes abstracted full and partial images of the head and human body. Humankind is expert at reading the figure and thus it becomes a vehicle to carry ideas. The most subtle message is in the face, therefore an exhibition of sculpted heads can communicate a group of ideas.

Terry Stringer
The Wrestlers
Bronze, 2008, Edition of 3
28 inches high
Courtesy of Beppu Wiarda Gallery, Portland, Oregon




Terry Stringer
Body Language
Bronze, Edition of 3
16.5 inches high
Courtesy of Beppu Wiarda Gallery, Portland, Oregon




Terry Stringer
Head Hand Hangings
Courtesy of Beppu Wiarda Gallery, Portland, Oregon




Terry Stringer
Balthus and His Model
Bronze, Edition of 3
24.5 inches high
Courtesy of Beppu Wiarda Gallery, Portland, Oregon

These works seek to build the figure as architecture. They conflate sculpture and architecture, both of which are structures in space. Regarding his work Terry says, “Many of these pieces relate to Folk Art which has long fascinated me. My work is a mixture of my memories and popular culture. I find that if I gift them with my own views, modeled figures indeed have life.”


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Terry Stringer
September 2008

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Beppu Wiarda Gallery
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Portland, OR 97209

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