Terrance Lindall

Terrance Lindall is an American artist who was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, in 1944. Lindall attended the University of Minnesota and graduated magna cum laude from Hunter College in New York City in 1970, with a double major in Philosophy and English and a double minor in Psychology and Physical Anthropology. He was in the Doctor of Philosophy program in philosophy at New York University from 1970 to 1973. He is listed in Marquis "Who's Who in America 2006." Information about this artist is also on file in the Smithsonian Institution Library Collection. Lindall's art has been on the covers of numerous books and magazines and has been exhibited at many galleries and museums, including the Brooklyn Museum, Hudson River Museum, the Museum of the Surreal and Fantastic and the Society of Illustrators Museum.

Overview

He produced art for Warren Publishing's Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella, for "Heavy Metal" magazine, for the Epic Comics imprint of Marvel Comics and for Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone Magazine". His book "Paradise Lost Illustrated", poetry by John Milton has been compared to other illustrators including William Blake's. According to Professor Karbiener, many students prefer Lindall's version, which appeared in "Heavy Metal Magazine" and has a popular following among young people. Professor Karen Karbiener, Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, gave a lecture at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center in 2004 on " ...Milton's Satan and his impact on countercultural artistic movements from William Blake to the Beat poets in essence, the artists "between" Milton and Lindall * [http://www.wahcenter.net/events/2004/mothersday/index.html] , the radical artistic legacy." She is the general editor of a two volume survey of rebellious and reactionary American art forms, 1607-2004, the Encyclopedia of American Counterculture. Lindall owns Charles Lamb's as well as Lady Pomfret's copies of Milton's Paradise Lost, which is the first illustrated edition (Medina), 1688 & 1695 [http://www.wahcenter.net/center/news/2006/mpl/] .

Apart from being an artist, Terrance Lindall has a background in philosophy and has been active in the Williamsburg, Brooklyn art community [http://www.11211magazine.com/details.asp?id=76&issue_id=3] [http://www.wahcenter.net/exhibits/LindallRetrospective/index.html] over the past few years. He writes for "New York Arts Magazine", "Block Magazine", and "11211 Magazine", a Breuk Iversen production, and other publications. His recent essay "The Epistemological Movement in Late 20th century Art"* [http://www.11211magazine.com/editor/issue14/artart14d.htm] assesses what he sees as the new artistic trends in the contemporary art world and its context in new thinking about fractal geometry, quantum mechanics, historical will, and epistemological and analytic traditions. He recently curated, Charles Gatewood's THE BODY AND BEYOND * [http://www.wahcenter.net/exhibits/gatewood/index.html] (1997) and APOCALYPSE 1999 [http://www.wahcenter.net/exhibits/apocalypse/index.html] . APOCALYPSE 1999 was the most lavish art production seen in Williamsburg to date with over 125 artists from around the world and incorporating many provocative musical and theatrical productions. Since then Lindall has produced the show "Brave Destiny"* [http://www.wahcenter.net/exhibits/2003/surreal/] , including nearly 500 artists. For the show he wrote his "New International Surrealist Manifesto (NISM)", [http://www.cinemavii.com/Events/BraveDestiny/NISM.htm] . The opening reception was a "Grand Surrealist Costume Ball" to which people flew in from countries around the world for the one-night event, including Zimbabwe, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico and all across the United States. The arriving guests stopped traffic on the Williamsburg Bridge, the second time Lindall's shows have done this. Lindall, wrote an article on "The New Surrealists" which appeared in the March 2006 issue of "Art and Antiques Magazine" (March, 2006). The article traces the continually evolving art form from the 1960s through today, citing several of the world's foremost artists.

Terrance Lindall is a builder of institutions such as the Greenwood Museum in upper New York State, and has worked with Yuko Nii [http://www.wahcenter.net/center/news/2001/womanshistoryaward/index.html] in developing the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center [http://www.wahcenter.net/] , which has achieved international recognition. A full-page article appeared in the "New York Times [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00E2D71231F93AA15753C1A9669C8B63&sec=&pagewanted=print] " about their creation of this institution.

In other aspects of his life, Lindall was in recent years the Financial Manager of Roundabout Theater Company [http://www.roundabouttheatre.org/] , the world's largest not for profit theater in New York City, and Assistant Treasurer and Business Manager of the American Numismatic Society [http://www.amnumsoc.org/] , one of the United States' oldest museums with the largest and finest collections of coins and medals going back to the Greek coinage and Roman currency. He is now the President of the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center. He is an expert on not for profit law and finance.

Lindall has been in Kate Spade fashion ads appearing in several other top magazines. In 2004 the Kate Spade ad campaign was featured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City * [http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2004/fashion_fiction.html] in a groundbreaking show Fashioning Fiction * [http://www.lookonline.com/momaexhibition.html] . A short film on this campaign, "Visiting Tennessee", was produced by Andy Spade.

Lindall’s art for "Paradise Lost" appears on the cover of Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, to be released by Random House 2008. Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon Format: Hardcover, 1392 pages, ISBN 978-0-679-64253-4 (0-679-64253-6)

Holt Rinehart & Winston is using another Lindall Paradise Lost image in a 2009 high school textbook, which will have a first run of 370,000.

Oxford University's major exhiibit "CITIZEN MILTON" at the Bodleian Library (to which Milton himself personally donated copies of many of his works) uses one of the works of art by Lindall for Milton's Paradise Lost from the Nii Foundation collection. Their exhibit honors Milton's 400th birthday. The web page is entitled "Exhumations and Destinies: 'For Books are not absolutely Dead Things.'" Oxford University recognizes Lindall's contribution to the continuing Miltonian artistic legacy [http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/citizenmilton/xiv_destinies.shtml] .

Available only to scholars, a signed copy of Terrance Lindall's Paradise Lost Illustrated (ISBN 9780912493008) is in the The Robert J. Wickenheiser Collection of the Columbia Cooper rare book library at the University of South Carolina. The collections’s special focus on illustrated editions make it perhaps “the most comprehensive collection ever of Milton illustration.” [http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/britlit/milton/intro.html]

Critical response

On "Paradise Lost" series

On Lindall's September 2008 Paradise Lost Festival at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center: “The exhibit and programs promise to be a diverse collection of multiple perspectives and strategies that should engage the audience you hope to reach." Wendy Woon, the Edward John Noble Foundation Deputy Director for Education of the Museum of Modern Art, New York

" Lindall's image (on the cover of Random House’s 2008 "Essential Milton") is, of course, the star. It seems to me at once unmistakably modern and yet just as unmistakably archaic: exactly the doubleness I was hoping for on our cover." William Kerrigan, former president of the Milton Society of America and recipient of its award for lifetime achievement, 2007

"Radical artist and nonconformist Terrance Lindall has channeled Milton’s spirit into a modern context, in a provocative series of illustrations to Paradise Lost. His visual celebration of Milton reveals his remarkable affinity for the radical English poet, and his ability to create a fitting tribute to Milton’s enduring influence in the arts." Professor Karen Karbiener, New York University, 2007

"Terrance Lindall’s fanciful illustrations are bound to arouse response & provoke thought in the may persons interested in "Paradise Lost" & its subjects & in surreal illustration generally" --Professor Thomas Clayton, University of Minnesota Department of English

"Clearly avoiding the view that Pop imagery is inherently a sign of trauma, Terry Lindall employs the cartoon elements of style with a charming and often unnerving directness and simplicity, frequently aimed at causing a trauma all his own. This is particularly the case with his illustrations of Milton’s "Paradise Lost", with which he reaches a hyper-intensified and nearly hysterical verve." --Mark Daniel Cohen, Critic for "Review Magazine" and "NY Arts Magazine" "...since I was a teenager back in 1982... I’ve considered Terrance Lindall one of the globe’s greatest artists. My particular favorite is his intense adaptation of "Paradise Lost", which never fails to instill a pervasive dread in my mind." -- Greg Fasolino 1997

Others

"It is nice to know there is a latter day Bosch around" -- Dr. Leo Steinberg, Art Critic

"The high water mark in the Golden Age of this uniquely American Art form." -- James Kalm, "NY Arts Magazine"

"Surreal nightmare...DNA seems to have gone berserk" -- "The New York Art World Magazine", Nov. 1999

"Natural insanity" "Art Alternatives Magazine", 1996

"...eerie, magical, dreamlike, devastating, jarring...Lindall's illustrative style is magnificent!" -- Julie Simmons, Editor in Chief, "Heavy Metal Magazine", 1980 "Lindall's use of color & detail to achieve effect, his dramatic compositions, but most of all his totally unique vision make him a new wave artist to be reckoned with." -- Louise Jones (now Louise Simonson), Senior Editor, "Warren Communications" 1980 "Lindall's striking and unique visionary fantasy art is breaking new ground in the field" --David Hartwell, Senior Editor POCKET BOOKS, Simon & Schuster 1980 "My reward for the purchase of a Lindall masterwork has been a cover that draws raves. It is a very valuable addition to my collection of fine art." -- Stuart David Schiff, winner of the Hugo Award and twice winner of the World Fantasy Award & editor of the acclaimed WHISPERS anthologies

Works

Published books

"Blue Eyed Satori", 1970, Hardcover, Short stories with Yuko Nii

"Paradise Lost Illustrated", 1983, Hardcover

Art has appeared

"Heavy Metal Magazine", October 1979, “Xeno Meets Dr. X”

"Epic Magazine" #3, Fall 1980, Story by Archie Goodwin: “Worker in the City”

"Heavy Metal Magazine", December 1980, Story by Ted White, “Mary Quite Contrary”

"Creepy" #108, Cover, "Visions of Hell"

"Creepy" # 116, Cover, May 1980 “The End of man”

Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books, cover for "Watchstar" by Pamela Sargent, 1980

"Swank Magazine", for story "A Quiet Trip to Nevada," November 1980

Zebra Science Fiction, cover for "Three-Ring Psychus" by John Shirley, 1980

Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books, cover for "Web of Angels" by John M. Ford, 1980

"Eerie" #103, Cover, "The Horizon Seekers"

"Vampirella" #86, Cover, "Demon from the East" April 1980

"Twilight Zone Magazine", Cover, Annual Collectors Edition, 1983

"Heavy Metal Magazine", October 1984, Story by Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence, a Fable"

Art exhibit catalogs

Kent State University, catalog for group exhibit (SF & Fantasy Art), 1981

Society of Illustrators Annual, Hardcover, 1982

Published writings

"New York Arts Magazine", Epistemological Movement in Late 20th Century Art,” June 2000

"11211 Magazine", “Documenting Williamsburg” March | April 2004

"Art & Antiques Magazine", “Surrealism Isn’t Dead, It’s Dreaming,” March 2006

"The Tomb" #21, February 2007, “My Time with Warren Magazine”

Fashion appearances

Southwick Clothing catalog, 2000

"Bergdoff Goodman Magazine", Spring 2001

"Vogue Magazine", September 2002

"Vanity Fair Magazine", September 2002

"W Magazine", September 2002

"Nest Magazine", September 2002

"New Yorker Magazine", September 2002

"New York Times Magazine", September 2002

Museum of Modern Art, New York City, “Fashioning Fiction,” 2004

Articles on Lindall

Art Alternatives Magazine, “Natural Insanity,” 1998

NY Arts Magazine, “Lindall Retrospective,” by James Kalm

Block Magazine, “Williamsburg’s Bad Boy,” by Alex Padalka

Articles on Lindall's curatorial projects

"The Phoenix News", 1981, "Worlds of Wonder at the Brooklyn Museum"

"The Evening Sun", Norwich, Oct. 6, 1988, "Greenwood Museum Opens"

"The Evening Sun", Norwich, Oct. 9, 1991, "Quilts, Quilts, Quilts"

"The Evening Sun", Norwich, Aug. 21, 1992, "Celebrating 500 Years Since Columbus - The Gothic Chapel"

"Block magazine", “Surrealism and its Offspring,” by Joel Simpson, 2003

"Anna Magazine" (Russian), “The Grand Surrealist Ball” October 2003

"Block Magazine", “The Grand Surrealist Ball,” October 2003, Alex Padalka

Movie Appearances

"Visiting Tennessee" produced and directed by Andy Spade, 2002

Curatorial projects

19th Century Decorative Arts at the Greenwood Museum, 1988

The Art of the American Quilt with Margit Echols, at the Greenwood Museum, 1991

Selections from the Library, illuminated manuscipts, 15th & 16th C., at the Greenwood Museum, 1991

The 15th Century Gothic Chapel, at the Greenwood Museum, 1992

Charles Gatewood Restrospective, at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, 1998

Apocalypse 1999, at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, 1999

Brave Destiny, at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, 2003

John Milton's 400th Birthday "Paradise Lost Festival" at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, 2008

Movies in production

"The Making of Brave Destiny"

"John Milton's Paradise Lost"

External links

* [http://wahcenter.net/exhibits/2008/milton400/ "Lindall's Grand Paradise Lost Costume Ball 2008"]
* [http://www.11211magazine.com/editor/issue14/artart14d.htm "Lindall's Essay on Epistemological Art"]
* [http://beinart.org/info/essays/terrance-lindall-avant-garde.php "Lindall's Essay on the Death of Art"]
* [http://beinart.org/info/essays/terrance-lindall-brave-destiny.php "Lindall's Essay on Brave Destiny"]
* [http://surrealismnow.com/endofcivilization.html "Lindall's Essay on the End of Civilization"]
* [http://beinart.org/artists/terrance-lindall/ "Terrance Lindall - Surreal Art Collective"]
* [http://beinart.org/modules/Word-Press/2007/05/18/beinart-interview-with-terrance-lindall/ "beinArt Interview with Terrance Lindall"]
* [http://www.bilderundworte.net/snoop/de/storytellers/216,1309,L,0/Terrance_Lindall?PHPSESSID=2407be6a452e973d7a896c436c886563 "Creepy", "Eerie" and "Vampirella" covers]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwngvX_mqlw&mode=user&search= "Lindall's FALL OF SATAN on Youtube"]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiCB54VRVdc&mode=user&search= "Lindall's EXPULSION OF ADAM & EVE on Youtube*]