NEWS + IMAGES + IDEAS

March 10, 2012. Los Angeles.

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Lepidoptera propriedae.

March 10-April 13, 2012

On being in the Darkroom. Excerpt from MFA thesis (c. 1997-1998)

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circa 1997, Oakland hills. © Lacey Terrell

It's a cold, rainy night. The water for pasta is boiling. I put the red, green and yellow rice noodles in and sit down on the couch. I know what is ahead of me after my meal. I eat. It's 10:15pm, just the time when everyone leaves the lab and I arrive.

My hands fumble with the key code box. I bang twice to ensure no one is looking at prints under the florescent lights, able to let me in. No response.

The lab is dark, but the sound of the fan left on in the drying room welcomes me. Time to work. I re-instill life into the damp space as I spill my belongings all over the black corduroy cushions. Light table on. Cage door open. Safe light warming up. I feel strangely at home amidst the dull chemical odor and the ambient silence interrupted only by screen printers with the dropsies on the floor above. Hypo Chek, Fix, OK. Neutol to mix 1:15, fresh and potent. Stop, good. Hypo Clear purple, dump. Mix the potions necessary and turn off the light.

It's me, alone, with the red glimmer and dripping faucets and magical sorcery of making pictures. Time is 10:59pm. I sit on the corduroy examining, planning what to do - which image will I welcome into the already over saturated world, first? Hours fly by, as my eyes adjust and neck stiffens.

1:30am: I am hungry again and thirsty. Happy for Coke and Fritos.

Raise the enlarger head, slip in the negative carrier. Lower head. Focus light on, off. Adjust time. Press go. No paper in easel. Oops. Take out paper, put in easel. Press go again. The beeps are a nice break in the thickening silence. Into the developer. Tip tip tip fiddle flick. The image emerges.

3:00am: Only four prints finished. I haven't spoken in 5 hours.

4:30am: Six prints. Do I like them? A second wind has erupted and I need more liquid. Sprite. My teeth are carpeted by a gritty sugar coated film. I look at the deserted campus watching for movements of raccoons, security guards or other vampires. No one. The rain has turned to drizzle. Back into the cave of darkness, it is now 4:43am. The minutes are expanding as my body slows down.

I print and print. In and out. Dark to light. The same routine which has been in my life for years. Once production mode kicks in, I have a day life and at the stroke of 10pm I become the darkroom troll lingering, creating, alone as the rest of the school and area sleep. I walk onto campus and say hello as others say goodnight. It is my other world - a time and place where I am free of distraction and chaos. A simple existence, my tasks are clear and reasons for procrastination limited. I can think in this quietness. I am not afraid. Well, a subtle presence of fear keeps me alert.

The birds chirp as I walk down the sidewalk to my apartment. The neighborhood sleeps. The streets are calm. The sky is turning purple. Few people are stirring, getting ready for work, as I pull down the covers. It is 6:10am. My legs are stiff, eye bags swelling. I don't think about it or the fact that I would be there, in the cave, the next night at the same time.

In the middle of the night I lurk. I like being up, others' realities are on hold as mine continues to evolve. It's as if I am the only one alive, or that I have a special knowledge or am privy to the secrets of the night. As the years go by, I sense my body resisting the all nighters. I can't bounce back quite as readily, I don't look quite as fresh the next day. It is my time, though, to prowl and ponder that which is distracted, or too timid to reveal itself, during the daylight hours of normal.

- Excerpt from impresario, MFA thesis.

Fresh stART: February 4, 2012 in Santa Monica

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http://www.freshstartweb.org

2012.

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All images © Lacey Terrell 2011.

S.M.P.S.P

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I am honored to have been invited into the

SOCIETY of MOTION PICTURE STILL PHOTOGRAPHERS

www.smpsp.org

Redefining Hollywood Redux @ The Analog Salon in Culver City.

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Us Magazine Collector's edition @ KATY PERRY

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One of three double page spreads in Us Magazine collector's book @ Katy Perry

.... on the stands now.

TC

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THIEVERY CORPORATION 2010

This was one of 50 versions for the cover.

One more layout from Thievery book...

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THIEVERY CORPORATION

left: Prague right: Santa Barbara

2010

A layout from my THIEVERY book

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THIEVERY CORPORATION

Prague 2010

This was my most favorite show of the Europe dates... It was as hot as a Bikram Yoga class in this very small auditorium but the crowd was so into the music, they danced their sweaty selves into a frenzy. My viewfinder and lenses were fogging from all the moisture. Here Karina sprays the crowd with a little water. The band was dripping wet themselves, but having a blast in this intimate setting. I felt honored to be there.

THIEVERY CORPORATION

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I finally finished my book of LIVE photographs of TC (to be unveiled at a later date) just in time for their new album to be released on June 28th. CULTURE OF FEAR is the title and is sure to be brilliant.

See their website for tour info, but look out Williamsburg, the Thieves are coming this Friday June 24th to your Waterfront!

REVIEW SANTA FE 2011

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Santa Fe. June 5, 2011

Check out the 2011 Photographers Listing for the 100 of us that were there.... CENTER did an amazing job as usual orchestrating this event. Thank you!! While I met with 11 influential people in the photography world, this year the highlight for me was meeting/seeing other photographers... such as:

Thanks guys!

DAYLIGHT MAGAZINE- MULTIMEDIA PODCAST- MAY 2011- offSET!

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Daylight Magazine

Selections from THE PASSING RING at Perspective Gallery OPENS May 7th, 2011

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Redefining HOLLYWOOD @ The Factory Gallery Thru June 1

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The Dream Job that Got Away and Why it is ALL OK.

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Barbara and Connie, somewhere in Western Texas, on the road with the Culpepper and Merriweather Circus.

c. 1999

Today Water for Elephants is being released in theaters across the country. It was supposed to be my dream job, shooting stills on a high profile movie about a subject dear to my heart: The Circus. Unfortunately, it did not work out that way for classic Hollywood reasons, and i did not get the job shooting pictures of the pretend circus. The only thing that takes the sting away, is the fact that i know a real circus, with real people, and have had the fortune to travel with them, photograph and know them, while exploring parts of back country USA.... for the past 15 years.

Thank you Culpepper and Merriweather Circus!

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Just in time for the release of Water for Elephants

Selections from:

THE PASSING RING

On the road with the Culpepper & Merriweather Circus

1996-2011

MAY 5 - 29th, 2011

Opening Reception: Saturday May 7, 5-8pm

PERSPECTIVE GALLERY

1310 1/2 B Chicago Ave

Evanston, IL 60201

224-200-1155

Hours: Thursday-Saturday 12-6pm & Sunday 12-5pm

CIRCUS!! Read here!! NOW!!

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Calling all CIRCUS lovers!

Please read here about my project, THE PASSING RING
on Hey Rube Circus blog

BEFORE you go see Water for Elephants the movie!!

FABRIK MAGAZINE current issue....

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Included in a write up about 5 Notable Contemporary Photographers
in Los Angeles....

http://www.fabrikmagazine.com/content/about/

in print and online, page 59

LIFE SUPPORT JAPAN edition released

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offSET #6, Coney Island 2006

Edition of 10

8.5 x 11 page

100% of proceeds go to 2 disaster relief organizations in Japan.
L.S.J. has raised $38,000 to date and counting!

http://wall-spacegallery.com/displayShow.php?showID=125

MUSIC...

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**LENS 2011 at Perspective Gallery

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offSET #9, Los Angeles

BEST in SHOW Award

March 3-27, 2011

Selected by Natasha Egan, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Photography

offSET #29, New York @ 20x200

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Archival Ink Jet Edition Available
*VISIT 20x200 TODAY!*

Circus work on view @ PHOTO LA with Gallery 825

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PHOTO LA

January 13-17th, 2011

coming soon.....new...

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Update

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39NOW exhibit at Den Contemporary closing soon! Open by appointment only thru the end of the year.

Best of Show exhibit in Philadelphia, juried by Brian Paul Clamp closed.

I will be exhibiting at PHOTO LA this year January 13-17, 2011 and will have one offSET piece in the re:FORM benefit auction @ Honor Fraser Gallery in Culver City on February 10, 2011.

Thievery. San Diego. November 2010

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39NOW @ Den Contemporary Art. Los Angeles!

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Lepidoptera propriedae X, 2010

©Lacey Terrell

39NOW

Curated by Sophia Louisa Lee

@ Den Contemporary Art

November 17- December 17, 2010

Opening November 18th, 5-8pm

Pacific Design Center

8687 Melrose Ave, 2nd Floor, #B261

West Hollywood, CA 90069

P!NK....!

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Old News: 1995-1998 installations, San Francisco

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Nebraska and Iowa 2010

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The Passing Ring

Culpepper & Merriweather Great Combined Circus

WEBSITE UPDATE IN PROGRESS!

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STAY TUNED!

My favorite THIEVES

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Thievery Corporation in Paris June 8, 2010

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Image © Lacey Terrell 2010

I just realized my image is the cover for

P!NK'S single, Glitter in the Air.

A very beautiful song!

The Naked Truth - West @ Hous Projects

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Opening reception, July 22, 2010, 6-8pm

HOUS Projects

The Naked Truth - West @ Hous Projects

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offSET #8, Las Vegas. 2008

This image will be featured amongst many beautiful

and mysterious images in The Naked Truth - West,

an exhibition curated by Ruben Natal San-Miguel.

I am honored to be in this show! Thanks Ruben!

July 22-September 23, 2010

Opening July 22nd, 2010 @ 6-8pm

Hous Projects

pacific design center

8687 Melrose Blvd

suite B222

Los Angeles 90069

The Passing Ring series....

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Paulina, Montana, Barbara & Connie

Collect.Give Edition SOLD OUT

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Thanks to all the supporters!

Collect.Give Edition

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Collect.Give has released a special edition of one of my circus images. 100% proceeds go to School on Wheels, an organization which tutors homeless children in Southern California.

5 prints remaining!

8x10 image size on 11x14 paper. Digital C-Print.

CENTER - Project Competition winners announcement

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Project Competition- Honorable Mention for my Circus series!!

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The Passing Ring (1996-2010) received Honorable Mention for Center's Project Competition!

YAY!

Wrathful Battle Aspect @ Gallery 825

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a group show

OPENING

Saturday, March 20th, 6-9pm

Gallery 825

825 N. La Cienega

Los Angeles

March 20th -April 16th

Lepidoptera propriedae V, 2006

Installation views of current Circus exhibit

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Part of my project, The Passing Ring

is featured in Photography: Three Worlds

@ the Flinn Gallery

thru March 17th, 2010

Thievery live in DC

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Opening Saturday Feb 13th

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Photography: Three Worlds

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The first exhibit of my long term Circus project,

The Passing Ring, opens February 4th, 2010!

3 person exhibit @

Flinn Gallery

Greenwich, CT

Feb. 4th- Mar. 17th, 2010

20x200 print edition being released today!!!

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A version of my image, offSET #29, New York (2008), is being released thru Jen Bekman's 20x200. This a great opportunity to buy an archival pigment print from my offSET series at a screaming price!

Go now!

Honorable Mention

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Hey Hot Shot!

2nd Edition 2009, honorable mention

Blue

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Blue

Photo Place Gallery

Middlebury, Vermont

Thru Feb 2010

The Open Show

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The Open Show, a survey of Southern California artists

Gallery 825, Dec 12, 2009 - Jan 8th 2010

825 N. La Cienega, Los Angeles

In the front window at Kopeikin Gallery

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offSET #16, Los Angeles 2008, 35 x52"

Currently on view in the window at Kopeikin Gallery

8810 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, CA 90069

update

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*1000 Words Photography Magazine

nice blog post @ offSET

*Honorable Mention for my offSET book in the Photography.Book.Now competition!

ARBOR @ Mazzeo Gallery

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ARBOR a new exhibition online @ Mazzeo Gallery

ARTmostfierce blog post

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ARTmostfierce

A little blip about my work in regards to Critical Mass 2009

LENSCRATCH blog post

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http://lenscratch.blogspot.com/2009/08/lacey-terrell.html

recent sightings in the blogosphere:

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http://elizabethavedon.blogspot.com/2009/07/lacey-terrell-offset.html

http://stylecourt.blogspot.com/2009/07/slinks-lacey-terrell.html

http://culturepublic.com/2009/08/02/lacey-terrell-the-passing-ring/

honorable mention: HEYHOTSHOT! first edition 2009

F-STOP Magazine Featured Artist

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Please check out the new issue of F-Stop Magazine

My Circus series is featured!

NEW GROUP SHOWS

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PHOTOGRAPHY NOW @ Center for Photography at Woodstock

(juried by Charlotte Cotton)

thru July 2009

PHOTO-OP @ Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle

(juried by Jen Bekman)

thru September 4th, 2009

ART of PHOTOGRAPHY @ Lyceum Gallery in San Diego

(juried by Charlotte Cotton)

August 29-November 1st, 2009

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offSET #1, Morocco

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Here I am!