Terrance Lindall
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Terrance Lindall is an American artist who was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 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 Institute 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.
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. At New York University, his book Paradise Lost Illustrated, poetry by John Milton, has been used in Professor Karen Karbiener's classes and 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. It is generally thought that Lindall's illustrations for Paradise Lost are the greatest of the 20th century for Milton's poem. 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 *[1], 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 copy of Milton's Paradise Lost, which is the first illustrated edition (Medina), 1688 & 1695.
Apart from being an artist, Terrance Lindall has a background in philosophy and has been active in the Williamsburg, Brooklyn art community [2][3] 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"*[4] 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 *[5] (1997) and APOCALYPSE 1999 [6]. 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"*[7], including nearly 500 artists. For the show he wrote his New International Surrealist Manifesto (NISM), [8]. 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[9] in developing the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center[10], which has achieved international recognition in the emerging art world. A full-page article appeared in the New York Times[11] about their creation of this institution.
In other aspects of his life, Lindall was in recent years the Financial Manager of Roundabout Theater Company[12], the world's largest not for profit theater in New York City, and Assistant Treasurer and Business Manager of the American Numismatic Society[13], 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 The New York Times, Vogue magazine, Vanity Fair magazine and several other top magazines. In 2004 the Kate Spade ad campaign was featured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City *[14] in a groundbreaking show Fashioning Fiction *[15]. A short film on this campaign, Visiting Tennessee, was produced by Andy Spade.
Terrance Lindall's brother is the noted medical scientist Arnold Walfred Lindall.
