TERRY MARKS is an internationally exhibited, award-winning painter, printmaker, and tattooist, who plays a bit of ukulele on the side.
Terry was born and raised in New York City. As a young teenager she met painter Joseph Wolins, known for his work during the WPA period, who became her first art teacher and mentor.
In 1980 she moved to London, England, where she lived for nine years, went to art college* and worked in a lot of hellish pubs pulling pints for football hooligans€. She returned to New York City for her MFA in painting†, later becoming webmaster for artgalny.com, and founder of New York Stuckism‡ (local chapter of the international ReModernist art group.)
She has lapsed memberships with many arts organizations. Her work is in numerous private collections in the USA & UK.
* at the Central/St.Martin’s School of Art where she received a BA Hons for fine art printmaking
€ North American translation: drunken soccer fans looking for trouble
† the Graduate School of Figurative Art at the New York Academy of Art
‡ for more information, see Stuckism on the links page

Terry & a tiger in the Museum of Natural History, NYC
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