Terri Brooks: The Artist Relief Project

THE ARTIST RELIEF PROJECT WEBSITE

Artists pledge to donate 50% of proceeds

November 28 - December 17, 2012

As has been widely reported, the superstorm damaged many studios and galleries in Chelsea and beyond, thereby destroying the artwork and livelihoods of many artists from around the world. While we cannot reverse the damage, we can form a global partnership to help these artists get back on their feet.

The participating artists have graciously pledged to donate 50% of their proceeds (after expenses) to New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)'s Emergency Relief Fund for Hurricane Sandy. We hope you will join our cause by purchasing artwork on this website before December 17th and by spreading the word via email, Facebook and Twitter (#artistreliefproject). If you would like to become an Artist Relief Project Partner by making a direct tax-deductible donation to NYFA, please click here.

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Thank you in advance for your support!

Arielle SandlerThe Artist Relief Project

Participating artists:

Adam BATCHELOR Terri BROOKS Chris COSNOWSKI Eric CATOR Andrew CRANE BrentHALLARD J.T. KIRKLAND Richard KOOYMAN Holly MILLER Ryan Sarah MURPHY Melanie PARKE Heidi POLLARD Lauren PURJE John SABRAW Arielle SANDLER AlexSCHUCHARD Jessica SNOW Pamela STAKER Michael VOSS Douglas WITMER

Terri Brooks, Diamond Pairs, 2012. Oil, enamel, pencil and wax crayon on canvas, 2x 86x86 cm

Terri Brooks, Bleached, 2012. Oil and enamel on paper mache, 3 x 59x41 cm.

Line and Weight

'In her seminal 1979 essay ‘Grids’, Rosalind Krauss writes that ‘logically speaking, the grid extends, in all directions, to infinity’. The grid within an artwork is therefore ‘a tiny piece arbitrarily cropped from an infinitely larger fabric’. The paintings in Line and Weight convey both this sense of the infinite spatial grid and, through the building up of layers, the infinite and repetitious nature of time. Washed over, painted across, re-written, line by line.' Anna Dunhill 2019.

Over the Edge

`The neglected zones of urban existence – alley ways, awnings, walls, gutters and shutters – occupy a unique place within the history of painting. Perhaps inadvertently, artists have been depicting such insignificant elements as cracked window ledges or the dark recesses of architraves since the time of Giotto. Ubiquitous, utilitarian and often worn down, the marginal nature of such sites and the phenomenological questions they raise has dominated Terri Brooks practice for the past two decades and continues to inform her work today.' Phe Luxford, 2011.