Ben Terry

Thanks to Jumana for recommending an amazing art blog called "Art, Artists, and Galleries".  Written by Todd Camplin, who is from Texas, it highlights a nice diverse range of artists and intelligently writes about their work. Perfect source for inspirational artists for your own work!  Here I'd like to show you an artist by the name of Ben Terry that I found there.  Since we are covering of multiple self-portraits, here is an example of an artist working with that right in their art!

Here is what Todd wrote about Ben Terry:


"Ben Terry, what can I say, but a real rising star. In a world of self absorbed people, the rise of memoirs, and artists interested in self portrait, Terry jumps into this world head first, but with a skill that not only reflect the society he is in, but also with a strange sense of irony and the right amount of self-criticism that make the work more than just an easy surface reading. Here what I said at ModernDallas.net, for the "110 Degrees" show at Cohn Drennan Contemporary.

"Benjamin Terry takes a more cubist approach to his figures. His paintings play with multiple self-portrait perspectives. The paintings use a limited muted color palate that blands out any attempt to create emotional content through color. We are forced to draw our emotional response through
the self-portrait rendered figure. A risky move with a powerful payoff."

And here is Ben Terry's Artist Statement, taken from his own website:


My current work combines representational images and the chaos of ephemeral composition. I play with various thoughts and emotions that pass through my mind at any given moment. Working with memory, fantasy, dreams and time, I use multiple selves to create a narrative sequence that reflect on ideas of internal conflict, self doubt and emotional trauma. My painted figures escape the confines of naturalism. Like a memory or dream, parts of the narrative become blurred or fragmented--and the original thought is always transformed. Their evolutions, whether through multiplicity, incompleteness or obliteration, imply that my subjects are odd fragments of a half-forgotten memory.


Ben Terry's Website