Common Grounds Sphere

My latest Termesphere is called COMMON GROUNDS.   It is a 16 ” diameter sphere of our local coffee shop.   Markie and I go for coffee there most mornings.  I spend a lot of time watching people when we are there.  Commons Grounds is a place where everyone, young and old, interact with one another.  Different tables have different topics of conversations.  The weather …

Termes featured in Make Magazine

“In the Round” by Donna Tauscher was published in volume 17 of Makezine.  To quote the information about the ezine, “MAKE is a quarterly project-based magazine… MAKE brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. It …

Circular Logic

by David Eisenhauer Almost everything in Dick Termes’ world is round – the sun breaking through morning haze, the tennis ball he batted back and forth before breakfast, the four geodesic domes in which he lives and works. For more than 30 years, Termes has eschewed traditional flat canvases to create his art on polycarbonate globes he calls “Termespheres.” He …

New Termesphere depicts story of early Deadwood

The city of Deadwood and the Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission will unveil the Deadwood Termesphere on Monday, April 1. The ceremony will be at 7 p.m. at the Deadwood History and Information Center, 3 Seiver St. Refreshments will be served after the presentation. A Termesphere is a spherical representation that tells a story from many angles. Deadwood commissioned the work …

Termesphere goes to St. Luke's Hospital

SPEARFISH – In celebration of Avera St. Luke’s Hospital 100th anniversary in Aberdeen, artist Dick Termes was commissioned to create a Termesphere dedicated to the cycle of life. He has been working on this project for the past three months. Termespheres are hanging, rotating spherical paintings that show up, down and all around environments. Forward to the Beginning is a …

Dick Termes : Termespheres

Termespheres are three dimensional “inside out” views of the physical world around us. Dick Termes has been painting spheres for 37 years. His work has been recognized in America, France and Japan and has featured in many articles over the years. For those of us who want to attempt this style of painting he has a booklet on the 6 …

The Geometry of Art

A conversation with artist Dick Termes, creator of the Termesphere, quickly becomes part geometry lesson, part art lesson. There’s talk of six-point perspectives, dodecahedron three-dimensional puzzles and total visual space. He admits that one student at a Termesphere workshop suffered a “Termesphere headache” trying to understand the dimensional challenges of the spheres. Most people, however, don’t study the geometry of …