RAIR | 2021-22

terri rolland | santa fe, nm

Terri Rolland has lived and worked in New Mexico since 1990. She received her BFA from Moore College of Art in Philadelphia and studied at Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy. She is a 2020 Pollock Krasner Foundation grantee. She has also received a grant from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation (2008) and from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (1988.) She has been an artist-in-resident at Ucross Foundation, MacDowell, and Jentel. She has taught at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and at Pennsylvania State University. Her work has been widely reviewed, including twice in Art in America.

My work comes from direct contact with the natural world. Spending stretches of time in wild open areas, like the deserts of New Mexico or the grasslands of Wyoming, I deepen into a felt sense of a place, and open to the forces and feelings that live there. I want to convey the vibrating stillness that being alone in a vast space reveals. I am interested in the places where land and sky meet- the color, temperature, movement and edges found there. Visual meets perceptual: time of day, light, wind, moisture, silence, smells and sounds, are as important as what is seen and considered known.

How do we sense the sublime and essential power of nature that is set apart from a culture of clamor and distraction? How do we sustain that attention and sensitivity upon reentry into less “natural” spaces? Can a painting provide a place of memory, meditation and spaciousness to keep us connected and in balance with the earth? Can we see and feel these vibrations wherever we are, once we come to know and value them?

www.terrirolland.com

Roswell Museum and Art Center

Rair exhibition • Terri Rolland “Resonance” • October 23, 2021 - January 2, 2022

Below, a short video about Terri Rolland and her solo exhibition Resonance, at the Roswell Museum.