I create artworks that address issues of building and blight, cycles of use, and nature’s attempts at renewal within the built environment. Expressions of people are found in the ways we shape the land in service to our needs and desires, while inversely I’m equally fascinated by expressions of nature which may disrupt those plans. There is a sensuousness and gracefulness observed in this gradual ruination.
With reverence to the painterly tradition, I execute landscape paintings in a fluid and economical manner akin to drawing. The work is experiential and process based. This offers me greater insights superseding any predetermined concepts. These elongated, site- specific vignettes constrain and direct the viewer to examine rich passages within commonplace environments.
Terry Swafford – Holl Passage
Holl Passage, 2008
I saw Terry Swafford at Sapere Art at the Flat Iron Arts Bldg, Chicago, June 2010