This 16″ Termesphere overlaps the six senses over the six vanishing points. Trees take the shape of faces who’s ears, eyes, mouths etc. overlap the vanishing points. It makes the point that the environments are only possible to understand if our senses are doing their job.
Thinking in the Round on KELOLand
Full-Circle Success For Spearfish Artist You may have seen one hanging from the ceiling of various buildings throughout… [Read more]
April 2009 Newsletter
Thinking in the Round Exhibit 50 Termespheres are hanging and rotating in the Stan Adelstein and Lynda Clark Gallery at the Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City South Dakota. This is the largest exhibition I have ever put together. The space is wonderful for hanging Termespheres! New DVD I recently developed a DVD on ONE THROUGH FIVE POINT PERSPECTIVE. This …
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 …
December 2008 Newsletter
Up Down and All Around For the last four months I have been working on a traveling display of my concepts for the H.O.P. (Hands-On Partnership) for Science, Literature and Art in South Dakota and the Discovery Center in Pierre. The display goes into a trailer which is checked out by libraries and schools around South Dakota. They set the …
December 2007 Newsletter
A Round Town The sphere called A ROUND TOWN painted for the Convention Center in Sioux Falls has been installed! This new four foot diameter spherical painting called A ROUND TOWN was recently delivered and hung at the Convention Center in Sioux Falls. It was donated to the City of Sioux Falls by Avera McKennen Hospital. I spent six months …
December 2006 Newsletter
The Globe Theatre in London This is a 24-inch diameter spherical painting of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. Markie and I were there two years ago. It seemed the perfect subject for a Termesphere globe of the Globe. Later when I decided to create this piece I researched it in books, the Internet and the movie “Shakespeare’s in Love”. The …