A view from a different angle

Capital Journal Article Source PIERRE — Looking at the world through a sphere can give a person a unique perspective just as painting the world on a sphere has given Spearfish artist Dick Termes an “inside-out” view on life. Termes, the creator of Termespheres art, is an internationally acclaimed artist whose work is one-of-a-kind spherical paintings. “His work is such …

November 2009 Newsletter

6th Annual Termesphere Gallery Open House December 5th and 6th Be sure to mark it on your calendars! Come see the new Termespheres, and all sorts of other Christmas ideas—tee shirts, puppets, DVD’s, puzzles, Captured Worlds and many more surprises And as always—10% off! Stephen Hawking’s UNE BELLE HISTORIRE DU TEMPS I have been notified that THE BIG BANG, a 24 …

Stephen Hawking’s UNE BELLE HISTORIRE DU TEMPS.

I have been notified that THE BIG BANG, a 24 inch diameter Termesphere, will illustrate the cover of the French addition of Stephen Hawking’s best selling book A BRIEF HISTORY of TIME.  This book was first published in 1998 and has since been reprinted numerous times. Stephen Hawking, a theoretical physicist has spent his career working on basic laws which …

THE PANTHEON has been purchased

(my painting, not the real Pantheon) Dr. James Jones, president of Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut has purchased THE PANTHEON Termesphere.  Dr. Jones says it is now hanging over the family Steinway in the public living room in the President’s Residence. Dr. Jones thought this would be an ideal place because “thousands of people pass through the public rooms of …

What galleries are showing Termespheres?

Deadwood Lead Arts Council Gallery has a 20 piece show hanging in the Arts Council Gallery upstairs in the Homestake Opera House September 21- October 31. Flaten Art Gallery, St. Olaf University in Northfield Minnesota has six pieces in a show called “Art from Math- Math as Art” from September 17 through October 23.  I flew to St Olaf to …

Commission I am working on: WE THE PEOPLE

This 30” diameter sphere will belong to Stan Adelstein and Lynda Clark.  WE THE PEOPLE is exploring the Freedoms we have in America and how the Constitution has helped to protect those Freedoms. The trees represent some of the different Freedoms while the in-between spaces of the branches contain images of the people who have helped create some of the …

New Youtube Videos

I have been having a great time putting up YouTube videos of my work.  YouTube is the perfect way to show my spheres in motion and give a brief explanation of them.  This is a look around the Termesphere Gallery in the Black Hills. REFLECTING THROUGH The video I did of REFLECTING THROUGH shows a Termesphere that seems to reach …

Termesphere picked for Hawking’s book

Article Source: Rapid City Journal Spearfish artist Dick Termes has had one of his painted globes, called Termespheres, picked to illustrate the French edition reprinting of Steven Hawking’s best-seller, “A Brief History of Time.” Although Termes has work in the “Mathematiques et Arts” exhibit that has traveled Europe since 2005, publishers picked another piece for the famed scientist’s book. Maybe …