December 12 - January 26, 2025
From Houston Center for Photography:
“This research-intense, mixed media, assemblage, and installation work is rooted in the histories and futures of our fragile ecosystem.
I am particularly interested in unfolding the complex and messy patterns of our species’ impacts on the environment, and our ongoing renegotiation of its value to all forms of life. These works are rooted in the histories and futures of our fragile ecosystem from the examination of land preserves and conservation areas as they undergo a process of re-wilding and ecological recovery, to the imminent death of our glaciers and other tragic losses due to the rapid warming of the Earth.
In connecting, disrupting, inverting and fragmenting lens-based imagery, through the integration of text in multiple forms, and the incorporation of found objects and materials, I forge relationships between personal, cultural, and natural histories. Through my work I seek to make visible a state of mind, a way of perceiving and connecting information and ideas across time and space that are not entirely visual in nature; and in doing so, construct a narrative that is multi-stranded and open-ended addressing various notions related to time, observation, destruction and restoration, the accumulation of knowledge, and the shadow of memory embedded in place.
Terri Warpinski explores the complex relationship between personal, cultural and natural histories. Warpinski received a B.A. in Humanistic Studies with an emphasis in Studio Art from the University of Wisconsin, an M.A. in Drawing and Photography and an M.F.A. in Photography from the University of Iowa. Warpinski was distinguished as a Fulbright Senior Fellow to Israel in 2000-2001, as Professor Emerita in 2016 after a 32-year teaching career at the University of Oregon, was the Honored Educator of the Society for Photographic Education and received a DAAD Research Fellowship to Berlin for her long-term project Death|s|trip in 2018. Upcoming solo exhibitions include the Photographer’s Eye Collective in Escondido, California (2024), Vincennes University in Indiana (2025), and Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon (2026).
A native of Northeastern Wisconsin, Terri once again resides along the Fox River in the glacially carved landscape that is the ancestral home of the Ho-Chunk (Hoocąk) & Menominee (Kāēyās maceqtawak) Nations with her husband, David Graham, where they created newARTSpace, a non-commercial artist-driven exhibition space.”
Reception: December 13, 2024 | 12–2 am
Houston Center for Photography
1441 West Alabama Street
Houston, 77006 TX
(713) 529-4755
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