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BIOGRAPHY
Terri Warpinski creates imagery that reflects her reverence for the natural environment and her interest in the traces of human connection embedded in the landscape. An inveterate traveler, Warpinski has most often photographed in the desert environments of the United States and Mexico, as well as central and eastern Australia. In recent work she has been drawing on imagery from travel through the Middle East, Western Europe and China, while also continuing to address her home landscape from the coastal rainforest to the sage plain of the high desert. Helen A. Harrison of The New York Times has written of Warpinski: “She is especially attuned to the often subtle evidence of human impact on nature. . . . (Her work) invite(s) speculation about the secrets that may be revealed by close scrutiny and creative speculation.”
As a 2001 J. William Fulbright Scholar to Israel, Warpinski continued her photographic study of desert environments and taught at the Arava Institute of Environmental Studies in the Arava Desert of southern Israel. Other notable activities include a residency at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, and a large scale, commissioned installation for the Port of Portland. The Port series examined the history and culture of Portland’s port area, located at the intersection of the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean drawing upon the archive of the State Historical Museum and Warpinski’s original photographs. In addition to her solo projects, Warpinski works in collaboration with other writers and artists. In 1997 Warpinski completed a book entitled Sagebrush, "a literary and visual homage to the Great Basin." Inspired by the fragile, threatened desert environment, this hand-printed and hand-bound book contains images by Warpinski and poetry by writer Natalie Sudman. In 1999 in collaboration with South Carolina artist Susan Brandeis and Arizona artist Janice Pittsley, Warpinski completed and exhibited work from the Perpetua project based on work related to the Oregon Coast. And, from 2001 until his death in 2004, Warpinski worked with her husband, Garry B Fritz. The couple explored the intersections in their work which resulted from shared passion and appreciation for landscapes, experiencing different cultures, but above all else, for one-another.
Warpinski has been exhibiting nationally since 1979, and is represented in many public, corporate and private collections.. Her work has been published in Northern Lights, Many Mountains Moving, Northwest Review, and Edging West. She lives in Eugene, Oregon, where she is also a Professor of Art, former Associate Dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, and current Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Community and Engagement at the University of Oregon. In addition to university-level coursework, Warpinski teaches workshops, most addressing the landscape as subject and/or alternative photographic processes. She has led field courses to the area surrounding the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge for 20 years, initiated a program in the northern Italian village of Oira in 2005, and taught a multi-national field course centered on the Arava Desert of Israel during her Fulbright residence. Warpinski is also on the national board of directors for the Society for Photographic Education since 2001 and has served as the national chairperson of the society March 2003 to March 2007. She was the Chair of their 2005 National Conference in Portland, Oregon, which featured keynote speaker award-winning author Barry Holstun Lopez, and artists Mark Klett and Michael Kenna. Linda Connor was the honored educator.
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