Work Created for the Smith Andersen North gallery exhibition. Juror: William Wegman

New Cliche Verre, gelatin-silver prints

These contact prints are made from glass negatives which have been drawn and painted on, and stacked with internegatives and built-up imagery. After the completion of the glass plates, Diane Kreiter takes over and makes the gelatin-silver contact prints in her darkroom. We proof the prints and Diane makes exposure adjustments to bring them to the finished state.

Below: One of the glass plates

Glass plate for "Egyptian Bow Wow", image size 10 x 8 inches

Below: The finished work

Title: Egyptian Bow Wow, 2014, Dims: 10 x 8 inches, gelatin-silver print

Title: Moonlight Pterodactylus, 2014, Dims: 10 x 8 inches, gelatin-silver print

Link to Terry Kreiter website

Institute of Contemporary Art, 2014 ICA Auction, San Jose, CA

Terry Kreiter  sculpture

I’ve been contributing sculpture to the ICA annual auction - Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, for over 30 years. I create a new sculpture each year specifically for the auction.

Artist note: The tragedies in this Trilogy are: Water, Oil, and Gold.

Below are images to show the progression of the sculpture

Title: Trilogy, 2014, 10 x 17 x 5 inches, Unique cast and fabricated bronze with stone. Artist signature includes -- ICA

Early sketch for Trilogy, original drawings shows vertical tower. Artist sketchbook #26-2014

Later sketches show the final decision to make the tower horizontal. Artist sketchbook #26-2014

Wax pattern altered with Photoshop in order to explore the composition.

Wax patterns with their appropriate flasks, ready to invest with refractory plaster. Artist note: The parts are cast in individual pieces, for this sculpture there were 15 pieces cast.

The 5 1/2 pounds of bronze used to cast the sculpture

Artist Terry Kreiter pouring the molten bronze into one of the three flasks required to cast the parts for this sculpture

Cast bronze unfinished parts for the sculpture, roughly arranged to show the composition.

Finished sculpture for the ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Title: Trilogy, 2014, 10 x 17 x 5 inches, Unique cast and fabricated bronze with stone. Artist signature includes -- ICA

ICA  Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

2014 Statewide Photography Competition/Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California

Terry Kreiter 

Entries for 2014 Statewide Photography Competition/Exhibition

Title: Degenerates Walking on the Moon
Artist: Terry Kreiter    2014
Cliche Verre, Silver-Gelatin photograph
Dims: 8 x 20 inches
Printed by Diane Kreiter

http://www.tritonmuseum.org/

Title: Ambergris Nocturne
Artist: Terry Kreiter    2014
Cliche Verre, Silver-Gelatin photograph
Dims: 8 x 10 inches
Printed by Diane Kreiter

cliché-verre, also called Glass Print,  print made by placing photographic paper beneath a glass plate on which a design has been scratched through a coating of an opaque substance and then exposing it to light. The fluid lines possible with cliché-verre prints are reminiscent of etched lines.

The technique was popular in the 1850s with such French artists as Camille Corot, Jean-François Millet, Théodore Rousseau, and Eugène Delacroix. The most prominent 20th-century exponent of cliché-verre was the Hungarian-American designer Gyorgy Kepes, who carried out many innovations in the medium, such as painting the glass with mutually repellent substances to achieve infinitely variable effects.   britannica.com    

Exhibition Details:

May 10, 2014 - Exhibition opens
May 23, 2014 - Artist Reception, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. (Reception is scheduled to coincide with other exhibitions and to avoid conflict with Triton Gala event.)
August 10, 2014 - Exhibition closes
August 12-24, 2014 - Pick-up artwork

Any questions about the competition or exhibition?

Please email Chief Curator, Preston Metcalf at pmetcalf@tritonmuseum.org.

Collaboration: Terry Kreiter, and Fred Virdeh

A new collaboration with Fred Virdeh

Metal: Terry Kreiter     Wood: Fred Virdeh

This project is a homage to Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and is based on his painting: The Triumph of Death  c. 1562

Precisely, it's based on a small area of the painting on the top left

Detail of The Triumph of Death  c. 1562

 

Triumph of Death c. 1562,  oil on panel, 46 x 63.8 inches

The Painter and the Connoisseur   c.1565
Thought to be Bruegel's self portrait.

link to: Pieter Bruegel the Elder  Wikipedia

Original drawing: Terry Kreiter

Some early concept drawings and projects starting in 2010

Origin of the project
Drawing on paper: Fred Virdeh, 2010

Early concept drawing: Terry Kreiter 2010

Early concept drawing: Terry Kreiter 2010

First castings completed on Feb 26, 2014

project continues

Dimensional drawing used by Terry Kreiter and Fred Virdeh

Cast base legs: Still in the rough

Alignment fixture for welding tree trunk

Base and tree trunk ready to weld 

Trial assembly using mock-up boxes and some of the cast elements

Above: works in progress, Fred Virdeh  2014
lamp base woodwork

Welding progress  (March, 2014)

Note:  The collaborations between Fred and I always end with two unique, yet very similar sculptures. We make the individual parts in duplicate, keeping the dimensions, surfaces and details as close as possible to one another. 

Fred Virdeh

Cobra Desk Project

Desk by Fred Virdeh

Above is an elegant, one of a kind desk designed and built by Fred Virdeh. The details on the desk elude to our current collaboration which is being documented in this post. 

Desk detail: Graphic elements are references to the Bruegel painting

Desk detail: Graphic elements are references to the Bruegel painting

Previous collaboration 

Fred Virdeh and Terry Kreiter

Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
Table: Fred Virdeh and Terry Kreiter, edition of 2

photo: Diane Kreiter,   left: Terry Kreiter   right: Fred Virdeh
    Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA

Silicon Valley Small Works II

Silicon Valley Small Works II 

A Juried Art Exhibition in the Vargas Gallery at Mission College

 Santa Clara, California

 Oct 30th - Dec 12th,  2013

Juror: Lindsey Kouvaris, Curator for the de Saisset Museum

Artist Note: My work was not accepted for this exhibition. I was disappointed, but this is certainly not my first rejection; sometimes you get in, sometimes you don't. Here's the good news, my wife Diane Kreiter will have 2 entries in the show. They are beautiful toned gelatin-silver photographs:

Photographs: Diane Kreiter

Artist: Diane Kreiter

Title: Paradise Leaf

Dims: 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches

Medium: Toned gelatin-silver photograph

Artist: Diane Kreiter

Title: Parrot Tulip

Dims: 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches

Medium: Toned gelatin-silver photograph

Sculpture: Terry Kreiter

Artist: Terry Kreiter

Title: The Key To The Treasure Is The Treasure    2005

Medium: Unique cast and fabricated bronze

Dims: 6 x 10 x 3 inches

Artist: Terry Kreiter

Title: Talisman Maximus  2011

Medium: Cast and fabricated bronze, stone, and quartz

Dims: 9 x 6 x 7 inches

Artist: Terry Kreiter

Title: Mr. Blue Ball    2006

Medium: Unique cast and fabricated bronze, copper, cast and slumped glass

Dims: 9 x 4 x 4 inches