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“Artist Terra Keck told me she sees a connection between aliens and angels — you’ve got my attention — and in her works she has combined layers of graphite and a wash of color before she erases the materials to create otherworldly images that glow with the optimism of theosophical insight. Heightened by the lights behind the panels and the accompanying metallic wall painting, these small works are brimming with the energy of a world waiting to be born, and I am so ready for them. —HV “ Click above to read the full article. 2024
“Tucked away in a darkened, teal cubicle lies Out of Time (Stand 30), a solo display by artist Terra Keck, co-curated by Lisa Schilling, Jacob Rhodes, and William Chan of Field Projects Gallery. The project features a suite of 20 small, back-lit “eraser drawings” by the Brooklyn-based artist who uses the language of subtraction to create twinkling, tantric meditations on the existence of UFOs. “I trained as a printmaker, so I find the total blank page incredibly unnerving,” Keck tells The Art Newspaper. Instead, she works backward. “All of the marks you see are done by picking up pigment with an eraser,” Keck explains. She is not interested in Aliens "from a “military-industrial complex or conspiratorial perspective,” but instead takes a hopeful position, considering the possibility of intergalactic visitors as a sign that humans are worth the visit. Her pieces meld visual references to 19th-century mysticism with allusions to crop circles, lending the drawings a folkloric timbre.” Click above to read the full article. 2024
“At Terra Keck’s Spring Break Art Fair booth curated by Field Projects, titled “Out of Time,” visitors are drawn out of the fair’s colorful frenzied atmosphere into a dark, immersive space where the air is tinged with hickory and the walls are painted a deep bluish-green. Her sumptuously subtractive “eraser drawings” of graphite and watercolor float inches from the walls and are backlit by warm battery-powered lights. Gold sunburst motifs explode behind each work, evoking a blend of Christianity, pagan mysticism, and perhaps an H.R. Giger alien religion. Keck’s work explores the thresholds between realms, where light and darkness dance delicately. This is our conversation from the opening hours of Spring Break 2024.” Click above to read the full interview. 2024
“Terra Keck breathes life into her dark, ghostly canvases through a process of removal.
Do other beings share our universe? This Brooklyn-based artist uses her practice to investigate.” Click above for Full Article. 2024
“This week I have the incredible Brooklyn-based image-maker + performer Terra Keck share insights into her unique process. I stumbled upon Terra’s work online and immediately fell in love with her otherworldly pieces created by erasing layers of graphite and watercolor. She often shares her art with an accompanying piece of ambient music, and when she included a song of mine I gasped in glee and reached out to her about being part of this series (with an extra gasp of glee when she said yes).” Click above to read the full interview. 2024
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“…Keck creates small, intimate works that center on the supernatural and hypernatural. She frequently uses the feminine body, “friends” as she refers to them, in Earthly environments and includes symbols to work through ideas, thoughts, and relationships around her. She uses concepts of infection, pussiness, acne, bubbling skin from burns – visual manifestations of visceral sentiments. Keck also uses snakes and citrus as motifs to symbolize sourness, in opposition with ideas of beauty – flowers, foliage, wallpaper, dresses. The beauty resembles perfume that serves to mask and cover up…” Click above to read the full article. 2021