Froelick Gallery is honored to present "Stanzas," an exhibition of Terrell James' large paintings on stone paper that she created between 2017 to 2023. The exhibit also includes a series of very small framed works on cotton and stone papers created in 2025 titled "Chapters."
EVENTS WITH TERRELL JAMES VISITING FROM HOUSTON, TX:
Exhibit Talk/Preview Reception: Wednesday, June 4, 5-7pm. Exhibit Talk 5:30pm.
First Thursday Reception: June 5, 5-8pm.
Regarding this exhibition James comments
"In the decades long evolving vocabulary of my work, continually ideas come from other artwork, objects in nature, the study of light as it embraces landscape, and a sense of place. In his book Wisdom Sits in Places, Keith H. Basso* writes: “What do people make of places? The question is as old as people and places themselves, as old as human attachments to portions of the earth. […] Places, we realize, are as much a part of us as we are part of them.” These drawings bring forward the experience of place through memory and the process of drawing.
I’m very pleased to present this, my eleventh solo show with Froelick Gallery. "
Terrell James (b. 1955, Houston) is an abstract painter who exhibits nationally and internationally. She produces both intimate canvasses and vigorous mural-scale works in oil. James’ works on paper include drawings, etchings, lithographs, monoprints, and monotypes. She has produced small-scale sculptures in bronze and clay; large flat sculptures in patinated steel; and impermanent, site-specific installations in Houston, Berlin, at the Great Wall of China, and in Song Zhuang Artist Village (Beijing).
*Basso, Keith H., Wisdom Sits in Places; Landscape and Language among the Western Apache. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996, xiii; Also quoted in Stephanie Buhmann’s essay Terrell James; Witnessing Places, catalogue for Terrell James: Place for Two Stones, 2007, Jason McCoy Inc. p6.
James has been included in over two hundred group shows, and completed over fifty solo exhibitions in galleries, artist-run spaces, and museums.
