Terry Ward's art has been on display at MoMA, The Corcoran, and a Smithsonian-affiliate, as well as on digital highway billboards from Chicago to Los Angeles. Four museums plus Al Gore and Jimmy Carter own Ward art, as do famed artists Sally Mann and Cy Twombly. Ward's art has been pictured or mentioned in "Smithsonian," NPR.org, "Hyperallergic," NY-1, "ArtGeek," "ArtSlant," and in local media. In a concept new to painting, Terry Ward designs art in series groups able to be mixed and re-mixed, generating new meanings and continually reinventing what "a painting" is. (Ward considers each single panel or each new multi-panel "mash-up" group a painting). Ward had a solo in the New York Mercantile Exchange in the World Trade Center/World Financial Center complex and another solo at an accredited regional museum. By invitation, the artist made the "largest legal street art roof mural in New York City." Ward showed in numerous NYC group shows and hopes for gallery representation. The artist, guest-curator, art-juror, and art-writer is active both in Brooklyn, NY (adopted hometown: Brooklyn's neighborhood of Bushwick) and in Waynesboro, VA. "Street artist" name: GrumpyVisualArtist. (Journalistic or academic use of any of the above, with or without citation, is approved.)








































































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^ Artist Terry Ward holds painting panels during installation of a 2018-2019 solo exhibit at an accredited museum, the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, located in Winchester, VA. Photo credit: Rick Foster. (Approved by photographer and subject for publicity use; 400 DPI --good for color hardcopy print use)

^ Artist Terry Ward holds a bullet-struck spray paint can while painting panels hang in the background at a 2018-2019 solo exhibit at an accredited museum, the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, located in Winchester, VA. Photo credit: Rick Foster. (Approved by photographer and subject for publicity use; 400 DPI --good for color hardcopy print use)

^ Artist Terry Ward in front of his wall-sized Think Back To Iraq multi-panel painting at a 2018-2019 solo exhibit at an accredited museum, the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, located in Winchester, VA. Photo credit: Rick Foster. (Approved by photographer and subject for publicity use; 400 DPI --good for color hardcopy print use)

^ Artist Terry Ward (center) discussing a Holocaust-themed multi-panel painting at a 2018-2019 solo exhibit at an accredited museum, the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, located in Winchester, VA. Photo credit: Rick Foster. (Approved by photographer and subject for publicity use; 400 DPI --good for color hardcopy print use)

^ Artist Terry Ward (left) at the Strasburg Biennial in 2018 with its curator Rupert Ravens in front of Ward's Sandy painting-panel series (with a lower-left corner photobomb by a Nina Levy sculptural face). Ravens moved to the Shenandoah Valley in recent years after a long history running a huge gallery in the greater-New York City area. Photo credit: Shenandoah Museum of Contemporary Art. (Approved by photographer and subjects for publicity use; unknown DPI)

^ Artist Terry Ward having just painted (legally) a stencil graffiti HAPPY DUCK as one of three official artists (along with artists Nils Westergard and Julia Chon) during the 2018 Virginia Street Art Festival. Photo credit: Meghan Williamson - VSAF. (Approved by photographer and subject for publicity use; unknown DPI)

^ Artist Terry Ward having just painted (legally) a stencil graffiti HAPPY DUCK as one of three official artists (along with artists Nils Westergard and Julia Chon) during the 2018 Virginia Street Art Festival. Trivia: The hat (Hat II) is a restored version of Hat, the artist's battered olive drab bush hat which traveled from Chicago to Tampa, Norfolk to Madison on various art activities --including making (by invitation) New York City's largest legal street art roof mural. Photo credit: Meghan Williamson - VSAF. (Approved by photographer and subject for publicity use; unknown DPI)

^ Artist Terry Ward (right) with "The Curator of Bushwick," Joe Ficalora (left), after having painted New York City's largest legal "street art" roof mural. Los Angeles art dealer/philosopher Stefan Simcowitz called this 2015 endeavor "poetic." Photo credit: GrumpyVisualArtist studios. (Approved by photographer and subjects for publicity use; 400 DPI --good for color hardcopy print use)

^ Artist Terry Ward (left) at a 2012 gallery opening reception with the art critic power couple of "New York" magazine's Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith of the New York Times. Special thanks to Roberta, who (Jerry says) "never gets in the picture." Photo credit: Chelsea Reporter. (Approved by photographer and subjects for publicity use; 700 DPI --good for color hardcopy print use)

^ Artist Terry Ward at a 2012 solo exhibit explaining his art for a film crew. Photo credit: Ladimor Films. (Approved by photographer and subject for publicity use; 700 DPI --good for color hardcopy print use)

^ Artist Terry Ward at a 2012 solo exhibit. Photo credit: Ladimor Films. (Approved by photographer and subject for publicity use; 400 DPI --good for color hardcopy print use)

^ Artist Terry Ward trying to keep cool-headed while posed by a photographer on a narrow ledge outside a building seven stories above Times Square in 2012. (The photographer was safely inside and shot the image through an open window.) The security-minded NYPD tightly patrols Times Square, but The City's Finest seldom look up. New York City's colorful Westin building is in the background. Photo credit: Ladimor Films. (Approved by photographer and subject for publicity use; 700 DPI --good for color hardcopy print use)

^ Artist and art-writer Terry Ward on a New York City street with a graffiti piece by famed street artist Kenny Scharf in the background in 2012. Terry Ward's one-on-one interview with Kenny Scharf was a cover story on "In The Art World" magazine. Photo credit: GrumpyVisualArtist studios. (Approved by photographer and subject for publicity use; 72 DPI --good for internet use)

^ Artist Terry Ward delivers an art panel to a 2010 exhibit at a Smithsonian-affiliate gallery. In the background is a Kenneth Snelson [ wiki ] sculpture, Six Number Two, on loan from National Gallery of Art. Ken himself wrote affectionately, "Very rich & interesting art, your long panels.... Great!" Photo credit: GrumpyVisualArtist studios. (Approved by photographer and subject for publicity use; 500 DPI --good for color hardcopy print use)

^ Artist Terry Ward in a crusty paint-spattered shirt has been the artist's long-running Facebook page profile picture. The background is not a painting, but rather is industrial/agricultural metal at an outdoor temporary painting site. Often the artist's innovative processes lead to paint on the clothes, hands, elbows, cheeks, belly button, etc. Photo credit: GrumpyVisualArtist studios. (Approved by photographer and subject for publicity use; 72 DPI --good for internet use)

^ Artist Terry Ward in crusty paint-spattered smock clothing while making art outdoors at a temporary studio site. Often the artist's innovative processes lead to paint on the clothes, hands, elbows, cheeks, belly button, etc. Photo credit: GrumpyVisualArtist studios. (Approved by photographer and subject for publicity use; 72 DPI --good for internet use)

^ Artist Terry Ward standing streetside near New York's AC Institute [ StreetView ] bodily covers up enough of the NO PARKING ANY TIME warning to make it say, "KING ME." Photo credit: GrumpyVisualArtist studios. (Approved by photographer and subject for publicity use; 72 DPI --good for internet use)


The official publicity bio/blurb:

Terry Ward's art has been on display at MoMA, The Corcoran, and a Smithsonian-affiliate, as well as on digital highway billboards from Chicago to Los Angeles. Four museums plus Al Gore and Jimmy Carter own Ward art, as do famed artists Sally Mann and Cy Twombly. Ward's art has been pictured or mentioned in "Smithsonian," NPR.org, "Hyperallergic," NY-1, "ArtGeek," "ArtSlant," and in local media. In a concept new to painting, Terry Ward designs art in series groups able to be mixed and re-mixed, generating new meanings and continually reinventing what "a painting" is. (Ward considers each single panel or each new multi-panel "mash-up" group a painting). Ward had a solo in the New York Mercantile Exchange in the World Trade Center/World Financial Center complex and another solo at an accredited regional museum. By invitation, the artist made the "largest legal street art roof mural in New York City" --an effort that L.A.'s celebrity art flipper/philosopher Stefan Simcowitz called "poetic." Ward showed in numerous NYC group shows and hopes for gallery representation. The artist, guest-curator, art-juror, and art-writer is active both in Brooklyn, NY (adopted hometown: Brooklyn's neighborhood of Bushwick) and in Waynesboro, VA. "Street artist" name: GrumpyVisualArtist. (Journalistic or academic use of any of the above, with or without citation, is approved.)


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Street Art Festival welcomes Happy Ducks

Police car looms in the street behind a seconds-old newly-painted graffiti art item: But it's here legally. Terry Ward was one of the three official artists of the Virginia Street Art Festival of 2018. Artists Nils Westergard and Julia Chon painted murals while Ward (AKA GrumpyVisualArtist) stencil-tagged several sites with HAPPY DUCKS. A 10-second video is below: ^*

Press and scholarly free use of this page's imagery approved with credit: No asterisk = credit to Terry Ward - GrumpyVisualArtist Studio; with asterisk = credit to Meghan Williamson - VSAF. ^ * ^ * ^ * ^ * #GrumpyVisualArtist / Terry Ward's HAPPY DUCKS are in the Shenandoah Museum of Contemporary Art (ShenMOCA) permanent collection and are for sale as 30"x40" spraypaint-on-foamcore originals at an accredited museum, at a biennial, and also are selling at Basic City beerhall. For the more ambitious collectors, HAPPY DUCKS also appear on full-size Ward painting-panels, many of which are for sale at Basic City. ^* ^* Trivia: The hat (Hat II) is a restored version of Hat, the artist's battered olive drab bush hat which traveled from Chicago to Tampa, Norfolk to Madison on various art activities --including making (by invitation) New York City's largest legal street art roof mural. Virginia Street Art Festival director Meghan Williamson appreciatively photographing a duck on the Arts Center exterior. Duck-making artist Terry Ward said, "It's an honor to paint and exhibit alongside a master like Nils Westergard and also the popular Julia Chon." The slightly greenish-yellow tint to the white is due to a layer of glow paint. Some ducks on exterior surfaces get a glow treatment.
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Open letter to Remington, Va. leadership re: town seal donation

To the elected leaders of the town of Remington, VA


Re:
Donation to Remington [ WEB ] of new town seal/emblem design


Note:
Revised second notice a year later --after first notice went unacknowledged


Background:


Terry Ward, an artist, visited in Remington in 2017 and found much of the town charming. The town's emblem, however, struck a jarring note. It shows both bad design and an element inviting an ACLU lawsuit: the flag used as a segregationist rallying symbol --on a taxpayer-supported property in the 21st century? Ward sometimes offers to redesign municipal seals. Ward also dislikes taxpayer money disappearing into legal costs from lawsuits --all the more reason to offer Remington the donation of a new emblem.

The current Remington seal shows a Confederate Navy flag (popularly called a "Confederate battle flag," also used by some Army of Northern Virginia groups) to symbolize the town's important Civil War history. This flag's use in the mid 20th century by segregationists during the Jim Crow era of "massive resistance" to racial equality has forever tainted this particular flag. While its use on actual battlefields and war graves is historically acceptable, use on any municipal emblem implies government approval of the segregationist uses. This is likely not the intended message and also is unwelcoming to some potential tourists or visitors. It would be best to keep the history and *lose* the albatross: do say "Civil War history," but simply use a different symbol.

The current seal has other issues: both the Confederate and the US are shown apparently in the river water --disrespectful to both flags. Further, use of a national flag within a municipal emblem is just considered heraldic bad form --lazy design. The mix of an abstract form (just a line) to represent the bridge, with a more realistic depiction of a locomotive doesn't work visually --such is usually the case with abstract/realism mixes. The dominance of the horizontal line dividing the shape in half leads to a rather boring overall composition. In short: the current emblem has issues.

Ward created a replacement emblem and tested to see that it can work both in color and in grayscale (letting some officials use grayscale stationary and cards can save taxpayer money). Ward rendered the imagery in Scaled Vector Graphic (SVG) software so the images may be exported as PNG images of any size (including on signs and vehicles) without loss of fidelity.

Changing municipal logos all at once can be pricey; however, rotating a new design in by attrition (as existing signs, patches, stationary, vehicle doors, etc, end their service lives naturally and need to be replaced) is not meaningfully more expensive than replacing items with an existing emblem. Ward's design uses just two colors and also is grayscale/Xerox-friendly, thus saving somewhat in production costs. The one emblem could be used as a shoulder patch or vehicle seal for all town departments: police, ambulance, public works.* (Other details of uniforms, work shirts, badges, stationary, or vehicle lettering will serve to indicate the specific branch of service.) The unified design gives further cost-savings.

The new emblem's elements are:


~ A diamond shape made of the four sections of the rail bridge. The actual bridge has a beautiful geometry of repeating basic shapes --let's use it. It need not be represented as a horizontal though; with "artistic license" it becomes an interesting diamond shape unique to Remington. (A horizontal bridge would obscure the locomotive anyway.) The central diamond can also evoke a baseball diamond because not many towns can claim to be the birthplace of a Hall of Fame ballplayer, as Remington can.

~ An anchor, as already used in the current emblem. It conjoins the year-date "1890" (the specific day-date of incorporation need not be shown on a town's seal, as it currently is in some versions).

~ A locomotive, as already used in the current emblem. Unlike the current generic locomotive, the new one is (a simplified version of) a known Orange & Alexandria RR locomotive.

~ Crossed swords: the widely-known map symbol meaning "battlefield" and also the Cavalry emblem used by both warring sides. The Remington-area fights were, after all, cavalry battles mostly rather than sieges or infantry skirmishes.

~ Two "battle stars" for the two battles of Rappahannock Station.

~ The word, in an old fashioned font, "REMINGTON" --twice cut-into by the sabres, representing again the two battles.

The whole is within a shield.

Orange dominates the color scheme --for the ORANGE & Alexandria Railroad which is of such historical importance to the town. For contrast, the other color is orange's visual opposite: blue.

Ward hopes the town council will put forth a motion to consider phasing-in the donated emblem. Ward will supply a SVG file. Ward can also supply some PNG images and can facilitate certain printing. The graphic art would normally come at a cost, but Ward decided to donate the design and support services to the town for its use without charge. The artist's advice is to print/create new items only as existing items reach their service life limits and they need to be replaced. A flag design using the new emblem can also be arranged.





Artist contact info [ redacted on web ]

Via email: "Mayor of Remington, VA"

Also published to: http://grumpyvisualartist.blogspot.com/2018/09/open-letter-to-remington-va-leadership.html

UPDATES

No reply to the 2018 emails to the mayor and other leaders.
No reply to a 2019 reminder.
No reply to a 2020 reminder email to the mayor.
In the post George Floyd era, Remington stands out as among the last holdouts in the whole county still using Confederate imagery in its seal [ WIKI ], and it's not for lack of a replacement.

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