Dick Termes

Dick Termes
Termes in his art gallery. Termes in his art gallery.
Education	BS Art BHSU, MA Art University of Wyoming, MFA Otis College of Art and Design
Known for	Painting
Notable work	Termespheres
Movement	Perspective
Website	Official Website

Dick Termes is an American artist who uses a six-point perspective system that he devised to create unique paintings on large spheres called Termespheres. He is the world's leading spherical artist. In 2014, Dick was inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame. He currently lives and works in Spearfish, South Dakota.

Termespheres

Termespheres are paintings on spherical canvases that capture an entire environment (up, down, left, right, front and back). Their style was inspired by Termes's desire to "paint the total picture." Termespheres are typically hung by small chains and rotated with electric ceiling motors to reveal a complete, closed universe as the spheres slowly rotate.

One of his termespheres is most famously used on the cover of an edition of A Brief History of Time of the late physicist Stephen Hawking.    

Workshops and lectures

Termes conducts lectures and workshops for schools, universities, and the general public, revealing the connections between art and math/science in his work.

Personal life and education

In 2012, this design of Termes' was proposed as the new flag of South Dakota by Representative Bernie Hunhoff, although no change was ultimately made.

Dick Termes was born in California, where his father worked in a shipyard.

He received a B.S. with an art major from Black Hills State University in 1964, a master's degree in art in 1969 from the University of Wyoming (the time when the idea for the Termesphere was first developed) and Masters of Fine Arts at Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, 1971. He joined the South Dakota State Arts Council in 1972.

Awards

• South Dakota Hall of Fame Induction, Chamberlain SD. 2014
• Rushmore Honors Award, Rapid City SD. 2006
• Breckenridge Festival of Film, Documentary TERMESPHERES: TOTAL WORLDS 2001
• Governor's Award for Distinction in Creative Achievement 1999
• S.D. Museum of Art- Artistic Achievement Citation, 1986
• Four South Dakota Arts Council Fellowship Grants, 1976-80-84-94
• Three Semesters paid by Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles Ca.1969–71 for MFA

External links

• Dick Termes's personal web site
• An installment of Ivars Peterson's MathTreck for the Mathematical Association of America that features Dick Termes’ spherical worlds
• A post on BoingBoing by David Pescovitz which describes Termespheres
• Mathematical Paintings and Sculptures blog post on Dick Termes
• An article entitled "Getting Out of the Box and Into the Sphere" by Dick Termes which describes concepts and the geometry behind Termespheres
• A paper by Kim H. Veltman entitled "Perception, Perspective and Representation in North America" in which Dick Termes and his work is discussed
• Rudy's Blog has a wonderful explanation of Dick Termes Termespheres and shows the environment of the domes Termes works in
• A great article by SCIENCE on Termes’ work
• This shows a video of Termes" HANDS ON PARTNERSHIP showing that is touring the state of South Dakota which shows the connection of math and art
• This shows many spheres which tie to the Math/Art connection put together by a group called Bridges which meet in a different country every years Archived 2008-10-14 at the Wayback Machine .
• This is an article on Termespheres which gets into some wonderful details on Termes's work