Terrell James

American, b. 1955
Terrell James is an abstract painter who exhibits nationally and internationally. A seventh generation Texan, she graduated from Houston's Lamar High School in 1973. In 1973, James studied painting and printmaking at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende (Guanajuato, Mexico). During 1973–77 she attended The University of the South in Sewanee Tennessee, where she continued her studies in painting and printmaking.[3]She produces both intimate canvasses and vigorous mural-scale works in oil. James’ works on paper include drawings, etchings, lithographs, monoprints, and monotypes. She has produced small-scale sculptures in bronze and clay; large flat sculptures in patinated steel; and impermanent, site-specific installations in Houston, Berlin, at the Great Wall of China, and in Song Zhuang Artist Village (Beijing). Her paintings are interpretations of landscapes, internal and external. James has continuously sought unfamiliar environments in which to paint, producing works in place that attend to an area’s specific local light, color, tone, and history, and allowing the disruption and new material to change ongoing work in her home studio in Houston, Texas. She has maintained temporary studio spaces in Mexico, North Carolina, New York, Montauk, Marfa, and Berlin. James has been included in over two hundred group shows, and completed over fifty solo exhibitions in galleries, artist-run spaces, and museums. Her work is included in many museum collections, including: the Boston Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the San Antonio Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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