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For more than a decade, the artist has worked with plywood surfaces, but the language of construction has altered. What he may have built as “haphazard, clunky constructions”—raw expressions of material, rough-hewn and almost clumsy—have become more refined and polished. “There’s a lot of construction going on, but it’s buttoned up,” Terry says. Jagged edges have become smooth undulations and undergone an attitude adjustment. Craftsmanship has come to the fore. “It’s about me resisting the urge to revert to things that I used to do when I was younger. Embracing my age and knowledge, rather than longing for some notion of what was once cool.”

Benjamin Terry lives and works in Dallas, TX. He received an MFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of North Texas in 2013. He has exhibited work in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally including Atlanta, Brooklyn, London, Mexico City, San Francisco, Dallas, and Houston. Terry was an artist-in-resident at The Maple Terrace in Brooklyn in the spring of 2018 and 100 West Corsicana in 2020. Curatorial work has become an integral part of his practice with exhibitions curated at Kirk Hopper Fine Arts, Circuit12 Contemporary, Galleri Urbane, and Texas Woman’s University. He was featured in volumes 96 and 132 of New American Paintings, and has received both the Clare Hart Degoyler and the Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough awards from the Dallas Museum of Art. He is currently a Distinguished Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas, Arlington.