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Termespheres are Back in 2022! Unique Art of 6-Point Perspective In the Round at Coastal Arts League
February 10th, 2022 @ 11:00am - 4:00pm
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An event every week that begins at 11:00am on Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until March 6th, 2022
Our Main Street Gallery is open daily from 11:00 to 4:00 pm
(Closed Tuesday and Wednesday)
Artist and inventor Dick Termes demonstrates 100 suspended spherical artworks at the Coastal Arts League in Half Moon Bay.
Termes discusses his unique spherical paintings known as Termespheres.
These suspended, rotating globes capture an inside-out view of an entire three-dimensional landscape.
Termes, who acknowledges the influence of M.C. Escher and Buckminster Fuller in his work, speaks about the interconnection between math, science and art.
Visit Dick at the Coastal Arts League Gallery, 300 Main St., HMB
Our Main Street Gallery is open daily from Noon to 5 pm (Closed Tuesday and Wednesday)
What you are seeing when you look at a Termesphere® painting is an optical illusion. An inside-out view of the total physical world around you on the outside surface of a hanging and rotating sphere. If you were on the inside of this sphere, this painted image around you would seem normal, but it is read from the outside. From any point when you look at the spherical paintings, the image reads correctly. Termespheres® capture the up, down and all around visual world from one revolving point in space. Most of the time these spheres are painted on the outside so it takes a six point perspective system to keep all of this environment around you organized.
Dick Termes has been painting spherical paintings since 1968 when he received his Masters Degree in Art from the University of Wyoming. He continued his pursuit with his thesis on the Termesphere® at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles where he received his Masters in Fine Arts
What is 6 Point Perspective?
The basic rules of traditionally defined perspective were formulated in the fifteenth century in Italy by Piero della Francesca, Leon Battista Alberti and others. In the fifteenth century view, if the horizon around you was imagined as 360 degrees, two point perspective drawings and paintings held 90 degrees of the visual world. In other words, their paintings could capture everything between the North point on the horizon to the East point. Termes has expanded this discovery of perspective in order to capture more and more of the visual world. With six point perspective, drawings and paintings reveal a total view encompassing the full 360 degrees in all directions.
Who is Dick Termes?
Dick Termes is an internationally acclaimed artist who’s work has been recognized from San Francisco to Paris, France, from New York to Japan and his one of a kind spherical paintings have been published in books all over the world. Recently, Termes’ piece titled “The Big Bang” was featured on the cover of France’s publication of Une Belle Histoire du Temps which means A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking.
Unlike any other painter; Termes paints on spheres which, when completed, are known as Termespheres®. Each Termesphere® is a revolving three-dimensional space/time exploration of an entirely closed universe, meaning that what you see, rotating in front of you, is one complete world or environment.
Visit the Gallery to experience Termespheres® for yourself.
Termespheres Return to the Coastal Gallery
April 29 to May 23, 2021
Dick Termes is an internationally acclaimed artist whose work has been recognized from New York to Japan to Paris, and his one-of-a-kind spherical paintings have been published in books all over the world.
Unlike any other painter Termes paints on spheres which, when completed, are known as Termespheres. Each Termesphere is a revolving three-dimensional space/time exploration of an entirely closed universe, meaning that what you see, rotating in front of you, is one complete world or environment.
In addition to his pieces on display in the Termesphere Gallery, Dick Termes’ work can be found in many locations including in the South Dakota’s capital at Pierre.
He developed what he calls 6-point perspective in order to capture the up, down and all-around visual world from one revolving point in space.
Markie Scholz shows how the six-point perspective works South Dakota is home to some pretty amazing art and some very talented artists. Dick Termes is one of those very talented artists.
“The show was ending, so I raced to the gallery, and I’m glad I did. What a fantastic show! Dick’s work is wonderful, and what a bonus to meet him as well. I’m thrilled he’s coming back again next year, and I’ll spread the word!” ~Sloane Perroots
Artist Dick Termes discusses his unique spherical paintings known as Termespheres. These suspended, rotating globes capture an inside-out view of an entire three-dimensional landscape. Termes, who acknowledges the influence of M.C. Escher and Buckminster Fuller in his work, speaks about the interconnection between math, science and art.
Termes’s work has been recognized and exhibited internationally. His piece “The Big Bang” was featured on the cover of the French edition of A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.
Dick Termes and Prof. Bob Turner
Seeing a picture of a “Termesphere” is not at all the same as standing among dozens of suspended spheres rotated by small motors. Books, drawings, and articles on display at the gallery lend to the explanation of what a Termesphere is.
