Terry Allen

Terry Allen does everything. Sculpture, music, drawing, perfomance. Born 1943 in Wichita, Kansas, he grew up around car lots and oil fields. That stuff never left. He makes rough, wild sculptures out of scrap metal, old car parts, things that look like they been on the road too long. He’s also a country singer, a real one. His songs tell storys the same way his sculptures do. Its all connected.

Storytelling is the whole point. He works with the American west, dust and highway signs, people hanging on by a thread. His pieces are bold, funny, sometimes heartbreaking. He dosent care about pretty forms. He cares about what the thing has to say. You look at a Terry Allen piece and you hear the music behind it. Or you listen to his records and you see the sculpture. He’s been at it fifty years and still goes his own way.