Terri Rolland

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A simplistic painting reminiscent of Manjari Sharma's style, featuring a blue sky above a series of rounded, orange-yellow shapes resembling rolling hills or clouds. The foreground displays a larger, semi-circular projection in a darker brown color. The style is abstract and minimalistic.
A minimalist painting by Manjari Sharma features a large blue circle at the center of a curving, reddish-brown shape on a beige background. The composition emphasizes simple geometric forms and contrasting colors, creating a striking visual projection.
Abstract painting featuring a brown, mound-like shape in the center, sitting atop a large blue oval at the bottom. The background is a mix of various blue shades with visible brushstrokes, creating a serene, sky-like appearance reminiscent of Manjari Sharma's projection techniques.
Abstract painting featuring bold shapes in blue, red, brown, and yellow. The blue background dominates the upper half, while a red shape with a brown circle occupies the lower half. A yellow, elongated projection hangs down from the top right, reminiscent of Manjari Sharma's vibrant style.
A minimalist painting reminiscent of Manjari Sharma's style depicts a brown mound with multiple oval shapes scattered across it, set against a solid blue background. Black v-shaped marks resembling birds in flight are projected across the upper portion of the image, adding a dynamic element.
Abstract painting with a blue background and black oval shapes distributed randomly. The foreground consists of two mustard-yellow mounds with small black dots spread across them, creating a captivating projection. The overall style is reminiscent of Manjari Sharma, simplistic and geometric.
A drawing depicts a brown textured wall with outlines of oval shapes in black. There is a roughly drawn house-like shape at the center bottom of the image, filled with black dots, resembling a piece of bread. The projection in the background is uniformly brown, evoking a sense reminiscent of Manjari Sharma's work.
Abstract artwork featuring a light blue and tan background. The top section is tan with black oval shapes, and the bottom section is light blue with scattered black horizontal lines. A central black outline suggests the shape of a building or structure, reminiscent of Manjari Sharma's projection themes.
A minimalist painting by Manjari Sharma featuring a large, abstract brown shape resembling a structure against a yellow background. There is a rectangular, light blue section in the lower center of the brown shape, adding contrast to the composition, like a delicate projection of tranquility.
Abstract painting featuring a large, dark brown geometric shape that resembles a building or structure with a pointed top. The shape has numerous red dots scattered across its surface, creating the illusion of projection. The background is a textured light blue, adding depth to the composition reminiscent of Manjari Sharma's work.
An abstract painting features geometric shapes. The top part has a dark pentagon with four light blue circles on a reddish-brown background; it's as though Manjari Sharma's projection of emotions comes alive. The bottom part has a light blue hexagon with a pattern of small yellow rectangles on a tan background.
Abstract painting divided into two parts: the top half, reminiscent of Manjari Sharma's projection style, features an orange diamond with red polka dots on a light background, while the bottom half showcases a light blue irregular pentagon with red polka dots on a dark background.
This abstract painting, reminiscent of a Manjari Sharma projection, is divided into two sections: the left side features a hexagonal shape filled with small pink squares on a yellow background, while the right side shows a red hexagonal shape with two blue and two white circles on a dark gray background.

Terri Rolland

Born: 1955, Miami Beach, FL

Biography and Information

Biography
Terri Rolland (b. 1955) applies multiple layers of clay wall paint with brushes and rubber tools to achieve a velvety matte surface in her paintings. She reduces the subject matter to simple lines, shapes, and colors. Her compositions are abstract, yet reference desert landscapes and dwellings. By flattening foreground, the tactile surfaces resemble flesh, concrete, and tree bark. 

Terri Rolland has lived in Santa Fe for over thirty years and shown her work at the Harwood Museum, Center for Contemporary Art, El Museo Cultural, the Governor’s Gallery, the Santa Fe Art Institute, 516 Arts, and the Roswell Museum. She has had fellowships and residencies at Ucross, MacDowell, Jentel, and the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program. She has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation.

While my work is steeped in the tradition of abstraction and modernist landscape painting, I also consider my east-coast, working-class roots and my feminist/butch/queer sensibility to be a major factor in the development of my aesthetic. In my studio practice, this means tactile, matte surfaces, a blunt simplicity of form, and a straightforward use of materials. I deliberately use the word handsome to describe how I want a painting to look, as it implies a less gendered idea than the word beauty, which connotes fancy, classy, and exclusive qualities I reject. The word handsome has its roots in hand, as in manual work and physical agency, implying a down-to-earth sense of something substantial, well-formed, and striking. It reflects my resolute transgressive attitude. —Terri Rolland

Education
1977
BFA, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1975
Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy

Solo and Two-person Exhibitions
2023
Mick Burson and Terri Rolland, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2021
Resonance, Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM

2019
Out There: Jeff Krueger and Terri Rolland, Gallery FRITZ, Santa Fe, NM

2016
 Terri Rolland –New Paintings and Works on Paper, Santa Fe Collective, Santa Fe, NM

2012
Alcove 12.2, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM

2010
Very Small Array, Ledger Gallery, Truth or Consequences, NM.

2009
Slow Thirds, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

2005
New Paintings, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

2004
Many, Some, Few, Lemmons Contemporary, New York, NY
Organic Matter, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, University of California at Santa Cruz, CA

2002
Migrating Trees, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, ​Galisteo, NM

1999
Oppositions, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, ​Galisteo, NM.

1987
Challenge Exhibition, Fleischer Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

1986
Works on Paper, Allen’s Lane Art Center, ​Philadelphia, PA

Group Exhibitions
2018
The Audacity of Art, Gallery FRITZ, Santa Fe, NM
Grand Opening Exhibit, Gallery FRITZ, Santa Fe, NM

2017
(Two-person exhibit), Santa Fe Modern, Santa Fe, NM
Taking Back Orange, Art.i.fact Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2016
Women’s Work, Curated by Jennifer Joseph, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
PPP: Painters Painting on Paper, Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2015
David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Santa Fe Collective, Santa Fe, NM

2011
Newmexorado, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM

2010
SITE Unseen, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM (also 2008, 2006, 2004, 2002,1999.)

2009
Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

2007
Loosely Joined: New Mexico Artists and Creative Capital, 516 ARTS Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

2006
Lemmons Contemporary, New York, NY
Center For Contemporary Art, Boxes, Santa Fe, NM

2005
6 x 4, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
Queer Show, Phil Space, Santa Fe, NM
Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

2004
Insight/Out: Reversing Vandalism, Center For Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
Unheard Voices Speak Out, Some Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2003
First Impressions and the Comic Book, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Pay Attention, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Galisteo, NM

2002
Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Gallery Artists, New York, NY

2001
Gallery Artists, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

2000
Fair and Square, Governor’s Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Small Works, UNM Gallery, Los Alamos, NM
Beaux Arts, CCA/Plan B, Santa Fe, NM

1999
Women Artists in New Mexico, Shared First Prize Award, juror: Lucy Lippard, LewAllen Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

1998
20×12: A Generation of Challenge Artists, Fleischer Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

1997
Contemporary 97,  juror: Louis Grachos, Fine Arts Gallery, NM State Fairgrounds,  Albuquerque, NM
Houseguests, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Galisteo, NM

1996
Up and Running: Invited Artists, Center for Contemporary Ar, Santa Fe, NM

1995
Artists Working With Elizabeth Murray, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM

1990
Jessica Berwind Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Armory, Philadelphia, PA
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia PA

1989
Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Jessica Berwind Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1988
Fleischer Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

1986
Vanguard Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1985
Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1983
Butcher and More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia. PA

1982
Butcher and More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Third Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1981
Federal Courthouse Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham, PA
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Grants and Residencies
2022
MacDowell Artist Residency Fellowship, Peterborough, New Hampshire

2021
Roswell Artist in Residence Program, Fellowship, Roswell, NM.

2020
Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, New York

2019
Ucross Foundation, Artist-in-Resident, Ucross, Wyoming

2008
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Individual Support Grant, New York, New York.
Nominee: Anonymous Was A Woman Grant.

2006
Jentel Artist Residency, Artist-in-Residence, Sheridan, Wyoming.

2004
MacDowell Artist Residency Fellowship, Peterborough, New Hampshire.

1990
Venture Faculty Grant, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1988
Visual Arts Grant, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

 

Press and Publications

2021
Catalog: Terri Rolland, Resonance, Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM

 

2019
Catalog: Out There, Jeff Krueger and Terri Rolland, essay by Conrad Skinner
Sarah Bradley, Out There: Jeff Krueger + Terri Rolland, THE Magazine, p. 49, May

2018
Kathryn M Davis, The Audacity of Art, THE Magazine, p. 52., December

2017
Catamaran Literary Reader, cover and pages 36,40,and 42., Winter 2016

2016
Kathryn M. Davis, Santa Fe Art Project, THE Magazine,  p. 42, November
Richard Tobin, Terri Rolland at Santa Fe Collective, THE Magazine, page 58, July

2010
Harmony Hammond, review, Art in America, pp. 122-3, February

2009
Douglas Fairfield, Terri Rolland: Slow Thirds, Santa Fe New Mexican Pasatiempo Magazine, October 30
Harmony Hammond, Terri Rolland: Slow Thirds, Albuquerque Journal, October 30

2005
Tia Blassingame, Conversation with Terri Rolland, Monodnack Magazine, p. 12, April

2004
Insight/Out: Reversing Vandalism catalog, CCA and curator Mary Bennett, pp. 8-9

2002
Jon Carver, Terri Rolland: Migrating Trees, THE Magazine, p. 45, April
The Magazine, The Universe of Terri Rolland, pp. 6-7, November
Dottie Indyke, Artist Hovers in Place of Discomfort, Albuquerque Journal, p. 1, November 22
Lynn Cline, Terri Rolland’s Conversation Pieces, Santa Fe New Mexican Pasatiempo Magazine, pp. 10-11, November 22
New American Paintings #42, pp. 138-141.

1999
Sarah King, Art In America, review, pp.118-119, December
David Clemmer, THE Magazine, Terri Rolland: Oppositions, p. 59,May

1987
Diane Armitage, Houseguests, THE Magazine, p. 25, April

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