Gwendolyn Terry
Gwendolyn earned her BFA, with a concentration in studio art, at the University of Colorado. At the university, she was able to pursue studies in two additional areas that had fascinated her since childhood - anthropology and art history. To Gwendolyn, these subjects naturally went hand-in-hand, for they all involved the discovery of otherwise hidden stories told not by words, but through art and personal objects that people had left behind.
This theme inspired and informed Gwendolyn's own art, and she began to focus on the presentation of visual narratives through scenic installations. A natural outlet to explore this theme was the theatre, and she was soon hired by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts as a scenic artist. There she was able to hone her craft and professionally combine these very personal interests as she executed the designs for a wide-range of productions, culminating the creation of the theatrical set pieces for the world-premiere of Peter Hall's acclaimed Greek tragedy,''Tantalus.''
That experience further shaped Gwendolyn's vision, and for nearly a decade she has focused on using art and artifact to illustrate what she sees as a convergence of visual narrative and a theatrical perspective. Whether crafting mosaic interiors for the administration tower at University of Denver or creating three-dimensional displays for textiles and fashions for Anthropologie, Gwendolyn has always attempted to reveal hints of stories great and small that are told through object, color and arrangement; juxtaposing the minimal with a sense of the mysterious and theatrical.
''Still Point of the Turning Earth'' follows in this theme. The composition refers to the ''Alchemy of the Word'' section of Arthur Rimbaud's prose poem ''A Season in Hell.''
