About

Bio

Terri Grant was an emergency room physician for 28 years before retiring in 2019 to focus on her creative practice full-time. Heavily influenced by her medical background and sensitivity to body language and non-verbal clues, but drawing upon her lived experience as a woman and a mother, her work in glass explores states of transition, employing the use of hand-drawn glass threads to create highly textured and evocative imagery that references the human condition.

 Amongst others, Grant has studied with Koen Vanderstukken, Silvia Levenson, and Richard Whiteley, and has been an invited participant in professional residencies held in Kirkenes, Norway, at Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA, and North Lands Creative, in Lybster, Scotland. Her work was featured in New Glass Review 37 and 39, published by Corning Museum of Glass, and in 2019 she was a John H. Hauberg Fellow at Pilchuck Glass School. Her most recent body of work debuted in Trace, a two-person show at Bellevue Museum of Art, July 2021 - Jan 2022.  

Grant lectures and exhibits both nationally and internationally, and currently lives and maintains a studio in Richland, Washington.

Artist Statement

My practice, both in medicine and in art, deals with universal questions regarding states of existence and transition in relation to our human condition. As an artist, I continue to work methodically, gathering and uniting fragments of information as I seek to connect and understand macroscopic and microscopic worlds. Although my methodical, problem-solving process is heavily influenced by my career as a physician, my work primarily references experiences from my personal life, offering the viewer a point of shared, intangible connection in relation to often difficult, unsettling and emotive topics.

 For me, a work often begins with a photograph, which evokes a feeling that I can’t quite define or express in words, and with a search for the delicate boundary between the reality of the image and the cusp of my imagination. The laying on of hands is central to my process; in the pursuit of a sense of mending, I break down, map and then rebuild the image using glass threads which I create myself, specifically tailoring a unique palette for each work. The material qualities of glass allow me to control and explore what is masked and what is revealed; I juxtapose translucency and opacity with shifts in tonality to build layers of physical and narrative depth.

Representation

Momentum Gallery/ Asheville, North Carolina