August 30-September 27, 2025
Reception: Saturday, August 30, 2025 (6-8 PM)
Featuring live music by Johnny Hooper and Milo Deering
The Bath House Cultural Center presents Earth Moves, an exhibition by Dallas artist Terri Thoman showcasing four decades of etchings, monotypes, and woodcuts that capture the powerful forces shaping our planet.
Terri’s works are gestural representations inspired by events in nature. Her observations explore the balance of beauty and horror, capturing the stratum of air, earth, and water. The exhibition is a story of Beauty and the Beast, referring to the captivating imagery of our shifting world, the reaction of awe creates a sense of serenity that disguises the truth of Nature’s horrific force. Our planet inhales and exhales, circling a star, spinning in the Universe, a mere speck of dust. The Earth Moves, constantly, it changes colors, it cracks open and bleeds, it cries a flood of tears, it becomes scorched, and it becomes new again.
The artist began this body of works on paper in the early 1980s, and she has been drawn back into these studies through the decades, inspired by news of some natural event: a flood, bolt of
lightning, eruption, and destruction. Terri does not attempt to document a specific event as she believes that photography and science could accomplish that in a better way. Her interpretations become more gestural illusions created by the process she creates with. As a printmaker, she carves into wood, etches into metal, moves and manipulates ink on the surface of a plate—she is the storm. The processes are slow and laborious, and the challenge is to recreate a glimpse of time, to capture the awe of the moment.
Terri expresses her deep love for our planet—cherishing the air we breathe, the rocks beneath our feet, and the magic of the sea. Though she has devoted many years to her print series, she knows a lifetime could be spent capturing the Earth’s shifting layers as it moves.
Visit Terri’s website HERE
