Theo Terry
Strawberries and Oysters on Table
About the Artwork
Theo Terry’s practice is informed by historical still-life painting, commercial photography, collage, and the aesthetics of digital processes. His work recontextualises materials and objects to navigate both pictorial concerns and those of wider society: wealth, labour, and consumption. Through the layering of various representational methods and bold framing techniques, apparent oppositions – between image and object, natural and artificial matter, depth and flatness, authenticity and mass production – play out within his composition. Combining a handmade aesthetic with a hyperreality of colour, scale, and tactility, Terry’s work suggests a latent potential in the objects which constitute our world.
Strawberries and Oysters on Table
2020
Archival pigment print, painted maple frame
Edition of 3
16.75” x 21”
Estimate: $1,500
Courtesy the artist
About Theo Terry
Theo Terry’s (b. 1993, Vancouver, BC) work has been exhibited locally in Vancouver at such venues as Charles Clark Gallery, HOWARD495, and Trapp Projects, amongst others. He received the John C. Kerr Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Visual Arts and was shortlisted for the Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize. His exhibition Artificial Shrimp and Other Simulacra was part of Capture’s 2020 Selected Exhibition program. Terry received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. He lives and works in Vancouver.
