Terry Evans
No Mountains in the Way: Photographs from the Kansas Documentary Survey, 1974
In 1974, with a grant of $5,000 from the NEA, No Mountains in the Way was organized by Jim Enyeart, then curator of photography at the University of Kansas Museum of Art. He and Kansas natives Terry Evans and Larry Schwarm—all artists who have attained considerable achievement in the intervening decades—travelled the state, photographing whatever struck them as representative. Each worked on an assigned theme. Enyeart focused on buildings, Evans on people, and Schwarm on the landscape. Their collective visions combined to poetically reflect place, culture, and custom in Kansas. The exhibition and catalogue were presented in 1975.
Artists both native to Nebraska and those traveling through have been struck by the vast land and sky of the prairies. This exhibition focuses on works that utilize large-scale formats to capture that seemingly limitless sensation as well as the intricacies that lie therein.
NO MOUNTAINS IN THE WAY, 40 YEARS LATE, KANSAS DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY, WICHITA ART MUSEUM, KANSAS
September 12, 2015 - January 3, 2016
James Enyeart, Terry Evans, and Larry Schwarm--artists who have attained considerable achievement in the intervening decades--each examined particular aspects of the Kansas rural environment. Their collective visions combined to poetically reflect place, culture, and custom in Kansas.
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art has commissioned over 40 large-scale photographs by Terry Evans for their exhibition, Meet Me at the Trinity, on view August 30 - January 25, 2015. The solo exhibition addresses the culture of the Trinity River in Fort Worth, Texas, focusing especially on the people drawn to its banks.
Heartland: The Photographs of Terry Evans is on view currently at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO. The exhibition is the first career retrospective of Evans' work and includes over 100 color and black-and-white photographs from 1971 to the present. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated, 250 page exhibition catalogue.
An exhibition of works from Terry Evans' series Matfield Green Stories is on display at the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University, through November 27, 2011.
The tiny town of Matfield Green, located in the Flint Hills of Kansas, is the subject of Evans' series of aerial landscapes and intimate portraits of the town's 50 residents.
Terry Evans invited for a major retrospective show in 2012 by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO.
The work of Terry Evans is currently featured in Picturing Modernity: The Photography Collection, an ongoing exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.