Finally – it was the night of the show – Terri Gold And Steve Miller: Planet
Finally it was the night of the show, on the way to the gallery my cell phone rings and it is an old friend, someone I have known since high school, saying he is sending another old friend over to my opening. Five minutes later he is the second guest to walk in. He still had the same great style and the same sparkle in his eye – we share a quick life story update and reconnect.
He is married happily and well with many children and brings with him a fabulous dog and then to begin my night on a real high says very casually, after hearing about the journey and looking at the work, I will take that one…
In India and all over the Far East the first sale of the day is very auspicious and brings good luck and good feelings all the way around and I must say it did.
Thank God for home boys !!
It was a pleasure to collaborate with Steve Miller and Julie Keyes in creating this show. We had a wonderful night and the work was very well received . We want to thank everyone for coming and helping to make it such a successful evening .
Planet - at 4 North Main Gallery
Terri Gold-Into the Mists of Time in Guizhou
Steve Miller and Terri Gold
Terri Gold and Steve Miller
Steve Miller- The Health of the Planet
Terri and Steve
Steve Miller
Planet : Into the Mists of Time in Guizhou
Building a body of work that tells a story is a long process. Why do we take photographs or make art ? For me, it usually begins with a journey to a far off land then I return home and create the work and then find a place to show the work and then produce the show and then complete the circle- showing the work out in the world. I find there is real satisfaction in a story deeply told.
Here are the first images from the show Planet.
Part 1 – Hanging the show .
The pop up gallery weekend event that I shared with Steve Miller – it was curated by Julie Keyes – held at 4 North Main Gallery in Southampton. .
It was truly a pleasure to collaborate with Steve Miller and share the artistic endeavor with Julie Keyes.
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Terri Gold and Steve Miller: PLANET Opening Reception
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Planet Press Release
Julie Keyes presents the exhibition “Planet” at 4 North Main Gallery opening Friday, July 29th from 5 PM to 8PM. In the exhibition, “Planet”, Keyes curates a visual conversation between photographer Terri Gold and painter Steve Miller.
Planet: Populations migrate and indigenous cultures disappear. The competition for natural resources depletes our biodiversity while science proves the earth is warming. We live in a planet under stress where Terri Gold captures the last moments of fading cultures. At risk is a vast archive of knowledge and expertise of healers and weavers, poets and saints. Steve Miller uses medical technology to give the planet a check-up. If the Amazon rain forests are the lungs of the planet, then Miller x-rays these lungs to look inside the patient, Earth.
Terri Gold’s lifelong body of work “Still Points in a Turning World “focuses on Asia’s vanishing tribal heritage and has been widely published and exhibited. Recently, she was featured in aCurator Magazine and Lenscratch and was a winner in the Planet Magazine and London International Creative Competitions. Gold’s work is interpretive in nature and incorporates the use of infrared light and the invisible light spectrum. She is interested in the myriad ways in which people find meaning in their lives, how an individual explores his or her existence through their traditions. This current series, entitled “Into the Mists of Time “ is about life in Guizhou, China.
Over the past 25 years, Steve Miller has presented 33 solo exhibitions at institutions in the United States, China, France, and Germany. His exhibitions have been reviewed in Le Monde, Süddeutsche Zeitung, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, ArtForum, ARTnews, and Art in America. Miller was one of the first artists to experiment with computers in the early 1980’s, and his work today continues to integrate science and technology with fine art. Using the lens of technology Miller reinvents at the traditional painted portrait, the world of fashion, particle physics, molecular biology and the world environmental crisis. His current project, entitled “Health of the Planet,” is about the rainforest in Brazil.
4 North Main Gallery is located at 1 North Main Street in Southampton, New York.
Gallery hours: July 30th, 12 – 7PM and July 31st, 12-5PM.
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Into the Mists of Time: Guizhou, China
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Artist Statement
Planet : Into the Mists of Time
4 North Main Gallery Southampton , New York Opening Friday July 29th 5 to 8 pm
My ongoing body of work, “Still Points in a Turning World”, explores our universal cross-cultural truths: the importance of family, community, ritual and the amazing diversity of its expression. This chapter in the series is entitled “Planet: Into the Mists of Time”.
In April 2011, I returned to Guangxi and Guizhou China, an area rich in minority culture and stunningly beautiful. When I was last there in 1997, I visited Miao, Dong and Shui villages that had never received western guests. I wondered how different it would be…
Each day our van would climb around hundreds of switchbacks, our faithful driver Chen, his eyes totally focused, honking at each bend. Winding our way through 2000-year-old rice terraces intricately carved into the mountainside, higher and higher into the mists, the landscape green and lush, roads newly built and muddy, finally we would arrive.
The villagers awaited us with welcome ceremonies that have not changed for generations. Men playing bamboo flutes and women dancing in magnificent, elaborately hand-embroidered outfits with sparkling silver pheasant and dragon headdresses. The older people are still wearing traditional dress everyday but the next generation only wears these colorful garments for festivals. This is a significant change, for these tribes’ identity is best represented by their intricate textile work. Now the younger generation wants a different life.
The city has become a synonym for modernity, the country backwardness. These are not stagnant societies there is change in the air. It is predicted that in the next few decades, China will experience the largest human migration in the world’s history, from rural to urban. At risk is a vast archive of knowledge and expertise of healers and weavers, silversmiths and musicians, poets and saints.
My work is interpretive in nature. My technique involves creating imagery using the invisible infrared light spectrum. Working with infrared light suits the subject matter and the timeless quality of the images. The post processing is part of my medium creating work that combines the use of the lens with technology.
We all lose when ancient skills and visionary wisdom are forgotten. . Traditions and rituals are still points, they are our histories and our connections to the past, and they are our future as well. As a “visual archeologist” I am interested in capturing these last moments of the tapestry of tribal life.
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REPRESENTING:
Audrey Stone
Steve Miller
Suzanne Hagerstrom
Michael Rosch
Fred Eversley
Paton Miller
Everado Gonzalez
Cammile Perotett
Willem Dekooning
Wyatt Neumann
Terri Gold
Josh Leherer
Along with my Asian work I have the first viewing of an image from my western series…
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YOUNG WOMEN IN BHUJ
WYOMING ROAMING
A Condition of Empathy
I came across this Ansel Adams quote the other day on a wonderful photography blog by Nicole Gibson .
http://blog.nicolegibsonphotography.com/?p=1260
“As with all art, the photographer’s objective is not the duplication of visual reality. Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the innerworlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens. Trusting that the instrument will capture something seen. The terms “shoot” and “take” are not accidental: they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term “make” define a condition of empathy between the external and internal events.”
This is on my mind as I am editing my new work from China and beginning the process of creating a new body of work.
I had some visual goals in mind, that are always very fluid and evolving. I was looking to see with feeling . To create work that asks questions as well as answers.
It’s a difficult process. I want to create beautiful work, work that keeps up with my own pace as an artist and craftsman, but I often worry that I’ve shot my last good
image, that everything from here on out is just derivative and cliché. We all struggle with doubts. There is a creative arc on a trip – to the flow of making the work and even to the journey itself.
I remembered to trust the process (most of the time) – and just kept going…
The Lush Landscape
Terraced Rice Fields in the Mountains
The Li River
National Costumes
Dong Village Playing Lushen Flutes
- Gejias Dancers
Dong Village
Gejia Tribal Women
Pheasant Miao - headresses flying
China is humming
the economy
the people
the land
are all bursting to move forward.
From the villages to the small cites…
I was mainly in the remote areas but know the bigger cities are certainly growing as fast as they can…
I read this week, the invitations for the royal wedding, invited guests to come in their national costume.
It struck me
because during the whole trip I was impressed by the incredibly ornate National Costumes worn in SW China and especially in Guizhou.
I was experiencing the effects, the beauty and changing traditions within the tribes – Miao, Dong, Shui, Gejias, and more, through their dress and whether they were still wearing and making by hand their National Costumes which are so much a part of the fabric of their lives.
This tribal area of China
is unique – with 57 different minorities.
Each one wears a different costume
that is handmade by the women-
either woven, batiked and usually hand embroidered.
Each village chooses different patterns and colors and designs even within the tribal groups. There are White Collar Miao,Long Skirt Miao,Pheasant Miao and so many more…
The older people are still wearing their National Costume every day but the next generation is only wearing the colorful garments and the amazing graceful head dresses for the festivals. The young girls of the next generation do not all want to farm the land and embroider their costumes in the doorways (the interiors do not have enough light). They want a better and different life and want to move towards the more urban areas and work in factories.
I went to one local marketplace where they had some of the beautiful embroidered jackets that were machine made and maybe that is the future.
Traditions and rituals are still points in a turning world, they are our histories, our roots and our connections to the past, and they are our future as well.
I remember reading a line from a Rumi poem once
“we are the still cool water and the jar that pours”
always duality
it certainly keeps life interesting…
Terri Gold World Imagery 