Harrison Public Library presents, “Terrill Warrenburg: Edges of Light”

My work is rooted in a process-based exploration of painting, where repetition, layering, and material interaction guide the outcome as much as intention. I am driven by the tension between control and chance, allowing gestures, pours, sanding, and accumulated marks to record time and movement within each surface. Paint becomes both material and evidence, holding the memory of its own making.

I often work on paintings over long periods of time, returning to them months or even years later. This practice of revisiting allows earlier decisions to remain visible while new layers disrupt, respond to, or transform what came before. Through this ongoing dialogue, each work becomes a record of change, accumulation, and renewal.

Working primarily with acrylic and mixed media, I use unconventional methods of applying paint, including stamping, pressing, trapping pigment beneath materials, and allowing surfaces to imprint themselves through contact and pressure. These interventions introduce unpredictability and texture, creating depth, shifting atmospheres, and moments of visual energy. Color plays a central role in my practice, used to establish rhythm, balance, and optimism while inviting sustained engagement.

Inspired by natural rhythms, memory, and the physical act of making, I approach painting as both investigation and meditation—a way to move through uncertainty, trace transformation, and create spaces that reward prolonged looking and reflection.

Terrill Warrenburg is an artist and independent curator based in Greenwich, Connecticut. She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2016, majoring in Fine Art with minors in Art History and French. Her work has been exhibited in a variety of solo and group contexts worldwide, including shows at the Painting Center in New York, NADA Curated (New Art Dealers Association) and at museums including the Delaware Contemporary and the Monmouth Museum. Through her evolving practice, Warrenburg continues to explore materiality, process, and the transformative potential of paint.

Warrenburg works full-time at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York City, where she manages art fairs and special projects. She is actively engaged in the arts community, serving on the Flinn Gallery Committee at the Greenwich Library and the Steering Committee for the Professional Organization of Women in the Arts. In addition to her studio practice, she frequently collaborates on curatorial and creative projects.

To inquire about a painting or a commissioned work, please contact the artist via email [email protected] or visit www.terrillwarrenburg,com, Instagram: @terrill___