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TERRA FULLER
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Terra Fuller's drawings and woodblock prints document her experiences and adventures traveling around the rural United States. "My drawings reference the art historical tradition of traveling itinerant artists while I negotiate the global migratory reality of the 21st century," says Fuller. In an increasingly complicated and technological world, the drawings explore the notion of making something out of nothing, or almost nothing - tramp art, animals and houses painted on rocks, canjos (banjos made out of tin cans), etc. Journeys such as visiting Amish families, spending time at hippie communes, and attending survival camp in the desert result in drawings that blend the aesthetics of American folk art and untrained object makers while posing questions about identity, the environment, consumerism, and travel/tourism of the postmodern age. Fuller's current work is an extension of a documentary video project where she attempted to create an epic adventure saga to prove that she could be at home in the sublime by going over a waterfall in a barrel, making a homemade wooden raft and floating down the Mississippi River, and going to survival camp in the Southern Utah desert.

Eclectic influences include the photos of Sally Mann's Virginia home, itinerant painters of early America, folk artists of the Midwest, music by John Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen, the tramping journals of John Muir, travel writers and much more.

Terra grew up in rural Indiana and southern Louisiana. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from the Yale University School of Art. She has shown her work in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, the United Kingdom and beyond.