Terri Rolland

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.

 

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