The New Gallery - Thom Andriola - Houston, Texas Contemporary Fine Art

	GORDON TERRY Passport to Magonia July 9 – August 15, 2005 New Gallery/Thom Andriola is pleased to announce Passport to Magonia Gordon Terry’s second solo exhibition in Houston, Texas. Terry’s title refers to the enchanted realm many believe to be the mythological place of origin of all the supernatural creatures who have interacted with humanity throughout history. With this theme, Terry continues his investigation into the spaces between science, modernist formalism, and visionary experience. Terry's arrangements of paint flirt with both scientific classification and the investigation of psychedelic, otherworldly space. Using the same materials as in his earlier work, polymer is poured onto a horizontal surface and frozen into translucent pools that are then transferred to plastic panels and clear acrylic stretcher bars. Terry's new paintings focus specifically on accumulations of hallucinatory spaces, sweeping gestures, Pollock-esque splatters, and jewel like medallions of paint. The resulting ornamental morphologies of organic forms and complex patterns are reminiscent of crystals, cellular structures, and cosmic nebulae. Presented in a completely abstracted vocabulary, these paintings offer innumerable references and points of entry through referring to nothing in particular. The sleek, acrylic panels of reflective obsidian black, milky- white, and blood red offer stark juxtapositions of brightly colored forms; while the stretched works depict all-over fields of translucent space. Characteristic of the new paintings, The Magical Art of Memory, Cryptography, and Gnostic Cosmology features individual elements and splashes of paint arranged on a black acrylic panel. Terry's plastic preparations depict discreet miniature universes that are organized into typological, quasi-scientific systems. Focusing on categorical displays that are at once highly ordered and in a state of harmonious chaos, Terry embraces both an Apollonian rationality and a Dionysian sense of abandon. Gordon Terry recently exhibited at Galerie-Hafemann in Germany, g-module in Paris, and Mike Weiss Gallery in New York among other European and American venues. Thom Andriola Director New Gallery

GORDON TERRY
Passport to Magonia
July 9 – August 15, 2005

New Gallery/Thom Andriola is pleased to announce Passport to Magonia Gordon Terry’s second solo exhibition in Houston, Texas. Terry’s title refers to the enchanted realm many believe to be the mythological place of origin of all the supernatural creatures who have interacted with humanity throughout history. With this theme, Terry continues his investigation into the spaces between science, modernist formalism, and visionary experience.

Terry's arrangements of paint flirt with both scientific classification and the investigation of psychedelic, otherworldly space. Using the same materials as in his earlier work, polymer is poured onto a horizontal surface and frozen into translucent pools that are then transferred to plastic panels and clear acrylic stretcher bars. Terry's new paintings focus specifically on accumulations of hallucinatory spaces, sweeping gestures, Pollock-esque splatters, and jewel like medallions of paint. The resulting ornamental morphologies of organic forms and complex patterns are reminiscent of crystals, cellular structures, and cosmic nebulae.

Presented in a completely abstracted vocabulary, these paintings offer innumerable references and points of entry through referring to nothing in particular. The sleek, acrylic panels of reflective obsidian black, milky- white, and blood red offer stark juxtapositions of brightly colored forms; while the stretched works depict all-over fields of translucent space. Characteristic of the new paintings, The Magical Art of Memory, Cryptography, and Gnostic Cosmology features individual elements and splashes of paint arranged on a black acrylic panel. Terry's plastic preparations depict discreet miniature universes that are organized into typological, quasi-scientific systems. Focusing on categorical displays that are at once highly ordered and in a state of harmonious chaos, Terry embraces both an Apollonian rationality and a Dionysian sense of abandon. Gordon Terry recently exhibited at Galerie-Hafemann in Germany, g-module in Paris, and Mike Weiss Gallery in New York among other European and American venues.

Thom Andriola
Director
New Gallery