Terry McClary
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Biography
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Terry McClary is not typical. She is not a typical artist. She is not a typical mom. She is not a typical woman. As a mom to two boys she needs to see the world not only as it is, but how she wants it to be for her children. To do that she believes in taking full responsibility for those in her care. That includes her children and herself, along with that part of her life devoted to her husband of 11 years, and also the entity that is her creativity. She chooses to not put herself in a work environment outside the home, because that would not allow her to nurture those beings which are at the center of her own being. She chooses to educate her children herself, because she believes an individualized education is the key to raising individuals. Her education is not that of a typical artist. She chose to study biology and focus on the details of life, all the while perfecting her skills at interpreting those details in her artwork. She chooses to act as a self-representing artist, to ensure that her vision of herself is what is presented to the world. I am Terry McClary, and I welcome you to a glimpse of my universe.
Terry McClary was born and raised in Los Angeles County, in Southern California, and now lives on the Southern Oregon Coast amid majestic forests, trees, and rivers. She studied biology and education at USC, but art was an important focus of study outside of the university environment. With extensive experience in the fiber-arts, , more than twenty-five years, Terry's needle-art pieces and ribbon sculptures, created in the last decade, won numerous awards and praise. She began drawing in graphite as a teenager obsessed both with the exquisite detail and form of flowers and with the work of Georgia O'Keefe. In college that obsession turned to graphite drawings and watercolor paintings of sea creatures, earning praise from artist's for the quality of the work and biologist's for the accurate detail. Over the years her work has grown both looser and more emotional, but still retaining a special eye for the details that matter. Her work has been shown in galleries in both California and Oregon, with many pieces now residing in private collections.
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Statement
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Art is part of who I am. I am a woman, a mom, a wife, a teacher, and an artist. It is these separate rolls that come together to create the whole of who I am. My goal in all of these roles is to express my view of the universe in a unique style. If my role as a mother and teacher is to express the reality of the universe as I see it to my children, then my role as an artist is to express the universe as I see it in my imagination. I can live in a world of endless bold color with purple skies and magnificently large flowers, or see the entire universe in a single plane of view, when I look at it through my imagination. With my paints and my camera I strive to show the universe of my imagination to eyes other than my own.
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