Terry Powers
Bio
Terry Powers (b. 1980) is a painter who lives in Logan, Utah and teaches at Utah State University. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and Stanford University. Powers was awarded a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and in 2017 when he was on faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute, he was named the Diebenkorn Fellow. Powers also taught at Stanford and California College of Art.
Like artists Edouard Vuillard, Fairfield Porter and Jane Frelicher working in the intimist tradition, Powers' work is a unique form of documentary painting that explores the familiar, intimate and often fleeting portraits of daily life. Working from observation, he captures the domestic spaces and scenes of his home and family life. "Because I try to just respond to what's around me, everything has potential to be a painting, and it's a great way to live - feeling like you're surrounded by infinite paintings."