Artist Statement:
It all started by using the left over paint-by-number paint
Terry Guyer was born and raised in the Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1976, he moved to San Francisco, for its milder weather and historic charm and now has his home and studio, just a short distance south of San Francisco, in the stimulating creative environment of Silicon Valley.
Terry Guyer is a member of the California Art Club, Allied Artists of America, The National Sculpture Society, and is President and on the Board of Directors of the Artist's Guild of San Francisco. He received his BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design, which included a year at Brighton Polytechnic Art Facility, in Sussex, England.
Terry Guyer is an award-winning painter and sculptor with artwork in many international, private, corporate, public and museum collections.
What Terry has to say about his work:
I work successive layers of translucent and opaque oil paint to the point that the sense of paint application gives way to where the painting has a life of its own. I paint realism because it gives purpose and structure to the visual sensation of color and value being created. The impression created by the paint handling gives context to the realistic imagery and together it builds a more complete and satisfying visual experience.
Painting is a journey for my mind and, I believe, brings the viewer of the final painting along for the ride. The longer I look at my subject the more I see. As I paint, this new knowledge informs the painting.
Paint effects are complicated and enhanced with successive layers of oil color applied after a previous session’s paint has dried. I apply paint in translucent veils of color and then paint into that with other translucent or opaque applications of color which, when combined – the wet color and areas of dried color, only partially covered – create colors and sensations of luminosity that transcends ordinary pigment awareness and leads the mind back to the representation of the subject – temporarily suspending the impression that one is looking at paint on linen – and gives way to the impression one is looking at a new reality.
Education:
BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design which included a year at Brighton Polytechnic Art Facility in Sussex England. Postgraduate training in the Bay Area at San Francisco Academy of Art, San Francisco School of Art and the Pacific Art League.
Awards & Distinctions:
Museum Collections:
2018 Hohbach Hall, Stanford University – Silicon Valley Luminary Society Inventor Portraits
2017 Howard Wheatley Allen Collection, Mendocino Art Center – Portrait of Howard Wheatley Allen
2013 Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, Wardenclyffe, New York – Replica of the Time Capsule for “A Statue of Nikola Tesla in the Silicon Valley”
Selected Awards
2015 Art Monaco '15, Chapiteau Fontvieille, Monaco, Certificate of Merit
2014 The Art Renewal Center International Salon, Finalist
2011 Fur, Fins and Feathers, Palo Alto Art League, First Place Award
2011 The Artist's Magazine, Finalist, Animals Competition,
2008 Society of Local Artists Annual Peer Jury, First Place Award
2007 Invited Artist for 2008 Marin Art Festival
2006 The Artist's Magazine, Finalist, Portrait and Figure Competition
Exhibitions:
2015-2018 Exhibiting Artist and President of Artist’s Guild of San Francisco
2015 Allied Artists of America 102nd Annual Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club,47 Fifth Avenue, NYC
2015 "Point Lobos and Beyond" at Carmel Visual Arts, Carmel, California
2015 Art Monaco '15, Chapiteau Fontvieille, Monaco
2014 National Sculpture Society 81st Annual Awards Exhibition, Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina
2014 The Art Renewal Center International Salon
2014 Group Exhibition, Sanchez and Market Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 Triton Museum of Art's Statewide Painting Competition & Exhibition, Santa Clara, CA
2013 Body of Work: Figurative Works from the California Art Club at STUDIO Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 2nd Annual International "Commitment to Excellence in Art and Sport:
A Fine Art Competition" National Art Museum of Sport, Indianapolis, ID
2011 Century of Landscapes: Selections from the California Art Club California Historical Society San Francisco, CA
2011 Group Exhibition, Intel Headquarters, San Jose, CA
2011 Solo Exhibition, Allegro Framing and Art, Portola Valley, CA
2010 Golden State Treasures (Juried), Historic Blinn House, Pasadena, CA
2006 Silicon Valley Local Artists Juried Exhibition at Art 21 Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Artistic Influences:
80 Glenn Way
Unit 13
Artist Tags:
oil painting, landscape, realism, portraits, horses, master copies, california, expressionism, traditional, impressionism
