"Furchgott's paintings have a meditative quality - an intentional quietness that is reflective of the artist herself ... Over the years, Furchgott's work has mirrored the different phases of her life and is mostly centered around women ... The professional artist has taken great care in showing the dignity and beauty of 'women's work' in her latest series (Intimate Interiors)."
- Lisa Edge, Real Change, April 17, 2019
ABOUT THE ARTIST
A gifted artist and a talented teacher, Terry Furchgott has made art her career and her passion for over fifty years. She is represented by the Harris Harvey Gallery in Seattle, WA. Working primarily in acrylic and soft pastel, her paintings focus on the figure and are notable for their depth of color, strong, innovative compositions and exploration of archetypal human relationships and of the Feminine. Furchgott received an honors degree in art history from Radcliffe College and studied classical drawing and painting at the Camden Arts Center, London. She brings a broad understanding of art history, seasoned practical experience, a continuing creative excitement and a questioning mind both to her creative process and to her work as a teacher.
Furchgott has been the recipient of Individual Artist Awards and Fellowships from the Washington State Arts Commission, the King County Arts Commission and Artist Trust. Along with her studio work she has also pursued a successful career in public art, completing large-scale commissions for the Seattle Center House, the Kent Regional Justice Center, the United States Post Office, the Regional Arts and Culture Council of Portland, the Fairbanks School District, Olympia High School and the Washington State Arts Commission among others. A community activist, Furchgott has used her talents as an artist to design and coordinate several key community projects including the Art to the People Project, a multidisciplinary arts celebration of Seattle's African Americans, and The First Street Artist's Collective, an ongoing mentoring and critique group for emerging and established Seattle artists.
She is represented in key Northwest collections and her work can be viewed at the Microsoft Corporation, the WA Sate Arts Commission, the Seattle Center, Virginia Mason Medical Center, the UW Medical Center, Continental Bank, McDonald's Corporation, Providence Hospital, Group Health, Federal Home Loan Bank, and the United States Postal Service.
“Seattle artist Terry Furchgott paints self-contained women, women who know who they are ... whatever they do, they do it for themselves and for nobody else. Each has an inner strength that illuminates her persona ... even those who recline or sit quietly have within them an untamed spirit ...Her canvases glisten with saturated colors, colors that have been carefully selected and laid down so precisely to complement one another that to remove even one of them would be to reduce the power of the image ... Furchgott allows you the viewer to add something ... The full story of these paintings demands your participation, and that’s what makes them so intriguing.”