{"id":19712,"date":"2025-02-13T13:17:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T13:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/?p=19712"},"modified":"2025-02-13T17:58:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T17:58:29","slug":"art-a-cathartic-force-using-humour-and-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/2025\/02\/art-a-cathartic-force-using-humour-and-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"Art, a Cathartic Force Using Humour and Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Written by Terry Graff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><strong>Warbird and Pandemic Horror<\/strong><br>In 2019, I received a Creation grant from <strong>artsnb<\/strong> and, in 2022, the Canada Council for the Arts confirmed my grant application to the Concept to Realization component of the Explore and Create Program, which provided me with the opportunity to create over 1,000 drawings, collages, paintings, assemblages and sculptures in a body of work I titled the \u201cWarbird Series.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1.-Installation-of-War-Birds-in-the-exhibition-Terry-Graff-Avian-Cyborgs-at-UNB-Art-Centre-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1.-Installation-of-War-Birds-in-the-exhibition-Terry-Graff-Avian-Cyborgs-at-UNB-Art-Centre-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1.-Installation-of-War-Birds-in-the-exhibition-Terry-Graff-Avian-Cyborgs-at-UNB-Art-Centre-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1.-Installation-of-War-Birds-in-the-exhibition-Terry-Graff-Avian-Cyborgs-at-UNB-Art-Centre-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1.-Installation-of-War-Birds-in-the-exhibition-Terry-Graff-Avian-Cyborgs-at-UNB-Art-Centre-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1.-Installation-of-War-Birds-in-the-exhibition-Terry-Graff-Avian-Cyborgs-at-UNB-Art-Centre.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-126a45a144a26576f8f41d3985eaf5d4\">Installation view of <em>War Birds <\/em>in the exhibition <em>Terry Graff: Avian Cyborgs <\/em>at UNB Art Centre, 2024. Photo credit: Chris Giles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The remarkable level of support from these programs helped me to develop and expand my ideas surrounding my long-standing focus on the relationship between nature and technology, which resulted in a national touring exhibition (Terry Graff: Avian Cyborgs) in 2023\/24. It also triggered numerous opportunities for reaching larger audiences through the production of a major accompanying publication and coverage in several arts and other magazines in Canada and the USA. Spinoff benefits included new connections with curators and collectors and several invitations to participate in future exhibitions and projects. Writing about the ideas and themes that I explore in my work is an integral part of my process, and a selection of my writings related to this project were published in various publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The COVID-19 outbreak occurred amidst production of the Warbird Series that led to increased time in my studio and an intensification of my art production. In fact, it spawned another large body of work titled \u201cThe Pandemic Horror Series,\u201d which connected seamlessly with the direction of my work. For example, I noticed how military rhetoric and war metaphors were being used by politicians and journalists to describe the challenges posed by the invading coronavirus, which incidentally resembles a naval mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both the Warbird and Pandemic Horror Series (both featured in my Avian Cyborgs exhibition) reinforced my focus on topical narrative content as much as on aesthetics and technical process and have prompted many new ideas for future production. Works from these series were acquired by the Woodstock Art Gallery, UNB Art Centre, and Galerie Colline for their permanent collections. I am grateful to <strong>artsnb <\/strong>for Career Development grants (Professionalization &amp; Promotion and Arts by Invitation) and a Documentation grant related to this project, which enabled me to fully chronicle my touring exhibition \u201cAvian Cyborgs,\u201d to cover a portion of the transportation expense, and to create a website. Finally, this highly ambitious period of art production has led me to begin a whole new body of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"responsive-embed widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TERRY GRAFF AVIAN CYBORGS video by Chris Giles\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1g2KZ5yjqQE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-53e08b24d8943826fc3d5fa549a63014\">The exhibition <em>Terry Graff: Avian Cyborgs<\/em> at UNB Art Centre, 2024. Credit: Chris Giles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>On Becoming an Artist: Then and Now<\/strong><br>I don\u2019t ever recall making a conscious decision to be an artist. Art has been my calling and all-consuming passion as far back as I can remember. My childhood drawings in the 1960s were diaristic and document my activities, interests, popular culture and environment of the time. There are drawings of my family at our cottage, of our pet dog and budgies, of local gas stations, and of TV shows like Disney\u2019s \u201cOld Yeller.\u201d In 1961, at age six, I made a drawing of a jack-in-the-pulpit, a favorite wildflower that I had transplanted in our backyard. My mother entered it in a contest organized by CK.C.O. TV\u2019s Big Al\u2019s Ranch Party, a popular kid\u2019s show, for which I won a tricycle, and enrolled me in adult drawing classes because there were no classes for kids available at the time, as well as painting classes at the home of the Canadian landscape painter Homer Watson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2.-Terry-Graff-age-6-with-his-winning-drawing-1961-1024x690.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2.-Terry-Graff-age-6-with-his-winning-drawing-1961-1024x690.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2.-Terry-Graff-age-6-with-his-winning-drawing-1961-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2.-Terry-Graff-age-6-with-his-winning-drawing-1961-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2.-Terry-Graff-age-6-with-his-winning-drawing-1961-1536x1035.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2.-Terry-Graff-age-6-with-his-winning-drawing-1961-2048x1380.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-250880478a3f36f2745b71d6d1641cd3\">Terry Graff, age 6, with his winning drawing, 1961. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As a kid, birds were a dominant subject of my drawings. I often imagined I was a bird and that I could fly. Birds were magical beings and when I found out they had evolved from dinosaurs I was even more intrigued. I was an avid bird watcher, collected bird skulls, feathers, and nests, and assembled and painted numerous plastic Bachmann bird model kits (owl, cardinal, cedar waxwing, blue-jay, hummingbird, and so many more), which I fastened to an actual tree installed in my bedroom. A prized object was \u201cThe Visible Pigeon\u201d, a life-sized anatomical model that included the bird\u2019s vital organs and skeleton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time that I focused on birds, I was equally fascinated by the aesthetics and function of machines. My father was the quintessential handyman, a masterful problem-solver and an inventor (US patent for Copper Compression Ring, 1972), who had all kinds of machines and taught me how to use power tools. In retrospect, it was inevitable that birds and machines would converge in my work as a life-long exploration and expression of the relationship between nature and technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2.01-Childhood-drawing-of-Mr.-Mercury-1960s-1-777x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2.01-Childhood-drawing-of-Mr.-Mercury-1960s-1-777x1024.jpg 777w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2.01-Childhood-drawing-of-Mr.-Mercury-1960s-1-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2.01-Childhood-drawing-of-Mr.-Mercury-1960s-1-768x1013.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2.01-Childhood-drawing-of-Mr.-Mercury-1960s-1-1165x1536.jpg 1165w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2.01-Childhood-drawing-of-Mr.-Mercury-1960s-1.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-ebed43bc77c43abb8f5336365129932f\">Childhood drawing of robot toy Mr. Mercury, 1960s. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-6c320e575c06d2395517f2cedcd596f8\" style=\"border-radius:0px;color:#575757;font-style:normal;font-weight:200\"><blockquote><p><em>The most rewarding aspect about being an artist is the joy, challenge, wonder, magic, and love of creation. It\u2019s finding solutions to visual problems and building on a vision and sharing that vision with others. It\u2019s working with my hands and eyes, honing my skills and acquiring new knowledge and wisdom. It\u2019s taking risks and not being afraid of making mistakes, or as the saying goes, \u201cThe bird who dares to fall is the bird who learns to fly.<\/em>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As I got older, environmental issues became an important focus of my work, although environmental themes can be found in my childhood art and even more so in my high school art. As I evolved as an artist, at a certain point I could no longer simply depict birds in their natural environment, as I was compelled to say something about their grim plight due to the many troubling environmental stresses imposed on them by humankind. Since 1970, three billion birds have disappeared in North America alone, and one in eight birds are currently on the endangered list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The apocalyptic theme in my work stems from a childhood drawing of a nightmare I had of animals crying out like victims of some rabid fit. They were anemic, spasmodic. Animals of all shapes and sizes \u0336 giraffes, zebras, wolves, deer, lions, elephants, rodents \u2013 were wheezing and vomiting. They ran over fields and ditches, across swamps and deserts, through forests and jungles, across the arctic tundra. Firey rocks fell from the sky. They kept running, but there was no escape. They ran and they ran until they disappeared, until they burst into flames and were swallowed whole, falling through oceans of ice that were breaking up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"774\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1.02-Exorcising-the-Demon-Virus-2020-Terry-Graff-774x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1.02-Exorcising-the-Demon-Virus-2020-Terry-Graff-774x1024.jpg 774w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1.02-Exorcising-the-Demon-Virus-2020-Terry-Graff-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1.02-Exorcising-the-Demon-Virus-2020-Terry-Graff-768x1016.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1.02-Exorcising-the-Demon-Virus-2020-Terry-Graff-1161x1536.jpg 1161w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1.02-Exorcising-the-Demon-Virus-2020-Terry-Graff-1548x2048.jpg 1548w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1.02-Exorcising-the-Demon-Virus-2020-Terry-Graff.jpg 1814w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-b0bc806b313b9f621f4c06c99d0c9285\"><em>Exorcising the Demon Virus<\/em>, 2020, acrylic on wood panel, 66.04 X 50.08 cm (Collection: UNB Art Centre). Photo: Courtesy of the artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Integrating birds with machinery and the baggage of human culture became my way of expressing the anthropocentric way in which we see the nonhuman other and how we\u2019ve altered and manipulated nature with technology to serve human ends. More importantly, it was a way to hold a mirror to ourselves, an allegory about what we\u2019ve done to the earth\u2019s eco-systems. Over the years, I\u2019ve continually expanded my research into the relationship between art and ecology, honed my use of both humour and horror in my work, and explored myriad ways of making art through a variety of media, most particularly from recycled materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2015, I embarked on the \u201cWarbird Series,\u201d which features a fusion of birds with war machinery and combat weaponry in a black comedy of nature fighting back for its survival. In the tradition of George Orwell, who used animals to satirize the human predicament and expose issues of injustice, exploitation and inequality in society, I use birds of all shapes, sizes and species and transform them into lethal mechanized killing machines to comment on the civilization that sanctifies such horror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"708\" src=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4.01-Raketenschleuder-missile-slingshot-2-2021-1024x708.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4.01-Raketenschleuder-missile-slingshot-2-2021-1024x708.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4.01-Raketenschleuder-missile-slingshot-2-2021-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4.01-Raketenschleuder-missile-slingshot-2-2021-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4.01-Raketenschleuder-missile-slingshot-2-2021-1536x1061.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4.01-Raketenschleuder-missile-slingshot-2-2021.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-144b9c65bad2d57b61792af582c462ca\"><em>Raketenschleuder <\/em>(missile slingshot) #2, 2021, mixed media assemblage sculpture, 61.18 X 91.44 X 15.24 cm (Collection: Galerie Colline). Photo: Courtesy of the artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking to the future, I am driven to expand my activist work, my exploration of our dual character as part of nature yet transformed by technology in a violent world of political, cultural, social and environmental decay. To this end, I will continue to draw on memories of my childhood as, for me, I don\u2019t think it possible to make art without the influences of childhood and the guidance of my inner child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-3928040279aee18d356d4edb8cec8b38\" style=\"color:#575757;font-style:normal;font-weight:200\"><blockquote><p><em>art has the power to convey emotions, to protest perceived wrongs, and to contribute to critical discourse in a tumultuous world of suffering, loss, political upheaval, and radical change. It is a healing and cathartic force that can stimulate greater understanding, appreciation, respect, and wonder for the natural systems of which we are all a part. It makes us more tolerant of difference and mitigates our adaptation to a life-altering world of unprecedented technological development and ecological disaster. Art offers a transformative experience that can expand our imaginaries of the future and open our minds to new and creative possibilities for our well-being and possibly for our very survival.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Endzeitgeist<\/strong><br>I am currently working on a project titled \u201cEndzeitgeist\u201d (which means \u201cend-time spirit\u201d in German), a combination of surreal sci-fi fantasy and absurdist black humour in response to the real-life hell-on-earth events unfolding on the planet. It\u2019s a monumental, multimedia sculptural wall installation combining elements of assemblage, collage and painting in the presentation of an epic Warbird battle scene representative of nature\u2019s retaliation against humanity\u2019s all-out war against nature. Layered with multiple cultural, historical, military and ornithological references, my research includes topical media reports on war, cinematic imagery of war, and war-themed video games (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series), as well as iconic history paintings that focus on the atrocities of war and on how artists throughout history have envisioned the \u201cend times\u201d in relation to cataclysmic events specific to their particular time and place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"795\" src=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4.02-WARBIRDS-UNLIMITED-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4.02-WARBIRDS-UNLIMITED-2019.jpg 960w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4.02-WARBIRDS-UNLIMITED-2019-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4.02-WARBIRDS-UNLIMITED-2019-768x636.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-2ea088ca43970cc6b774e9bb9d6db802\"><em>Warbirds Unlimited<\/em>, 2019, acrylic and collage on wood panel, 66.04 X 82.55 cm, (Collection: Woodstock Art Gallery). Photo: Courtesy of the artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>More specifically, this massive storytelling montage, constructed from recycled and repurposed materials and objects (in the spirit of my Doomsday Clocks), will give focus to the devastating ecological damage caused by the wounds of war currently being inflicted by Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war. Both of these conflicts are not only horrific humanitarian catastrophes, but have exacted a toll on the bird life in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip, threatening a significant number of rare and globally vulnerable bird species. Along with a visual interpretation of war\u2019s impact on life-sustaining ecosystems, is the evocation of nature striking back with force and fury, the unleashing of powerful storms, hurricanes, floods, landslides, wildfires, earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am excited by this dark and challenging project, which is supported by a Creation grant from <strong>artsnb<\/strong> and is the most ambitious work to date in my Warbird Series. It will feature the largest and most complex grouping of Warbirds (over 100 of them) engaged in conflict that I\u2019ve attempted to orchestrate in a single work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-image-fill-element\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/10.-Terry-Graff-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19727 size-full\" style=\"object-position:50% 50%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/10.-Terry-Graff-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/10.-Terry-Graff-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/10.-Terry-Graff-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/10.-Terry-Graff-1536x1019.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/10.-Terry-Graff-2048x1359.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Terry Graff<\/strong> is a full-time professional working artist who has maintained an active studio practice since 1975. Comprising mixed media drawings, paintings, collages, assemblages, sculpture, and multi-media installations, his work has been presented regionally, nationally, and internationally. The recipient of major commissions, acquisitions, grants, and awards, he has received both popular and critical acclaim for his \u201cavian cyborgs,\u201d a distinctive vision in Canadian art that speaks to the conflicted relationship between nature and technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Graff has also had a distinguished career as an art educator, art writer, curator, and gallery director. He has curated over 200 exhibitions and authored numerous articles, catalogues, and books on both contemporary and historical art.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>His Recent Writings<\/strong><br><em>War, Literature &amp; the Arts: an international journal of the humanities <\/em>(Volume 34, 2022): \u201cRevenge of the Warbirds: The Impact of Armed Conflict on Nature\u201d: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlajournal.com\/copy-of-table-of-contentsv2-1\n\">https:\/\/www.wlajournal.com\/copy-of-table-of-contentsv2-1<br><\/a><em>The AutoEthnographer<\/em> (Volume 2, Issue 1, 2022 Winter): \u201cOde to Bygone Birds of Childhood, Part 1 \u2013 drawings\u201d: <a href=\"https:\/\/theautoethnographer.com\/autoethnographic-art-and-essay-ode-to-bygone-birds-of-childhood-part-1-drawings\/\">https:\/\/theautoethnographer.com\/autoethnographic-art-and-essay-ode-to-bygone-birds-of-childhood-part-1-drawings\/<\/a><br><em>The AutoEthnographer<\/em> (Special Issue, May 2022): \u201cOde to Bygone Birds of Childhood, Part 2 \u2013 Automatons and Mutants\u201d:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/theautoethnographer.com\/autoethnographic-art-and-essay-ode-to-bygone-birds-of-childhood-part-2-automatons-and-mutants\/\">https:\/\/theautoethnographer.com\/autoethnographic-art-and-essay-ode-to-bygone-birds-of-childhood-part-2-automatons-and-mutants\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Terry Graff Warbird and Pandemic HorrorIn 2019, I received a Creation grant from artsnb and, in 2022, the Canada Council for the Arts confirmed my grant application to the Concept to Realization component of the Explore and Create Program, which provided me with the opportunity to create over 1,000 drawings, collages, paintings, assemblages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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