Terrance Lindall is an American artist who was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1944. He attended the University of Minnesota and graduated magna cum laude from Hunter College in New York City in 1970, with a double major in Philosophy and English and a double minor in Psychology and Physical Anthropology. He was in the Doctor of Philosophy program in philosophy at New York University from 1970 to 1973. He is listed in Marquis Who's Who in America 2006.

Lindall's surrealist art has been on the covers of numerous books and magazines and has been exhibited at many galleries and museums, including the Brooklyn Museum, Hudson River Museum, the Museum of the Surreal and Fantastic and the Society of Illustrators Museum. He produced art for Warren Publishing's Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella, for Heavy Metal magazine, for the Epic Comics imprint of Marvel Comics and for Rod Serling's Twilight Zone Magazine. At New York University, his book Paradise Lost Illustrated, poetry by John Milton, has been used in Professor Karen Karbiener's classes and has been compared to other illustrators including William Blake's. According to Professor Karbiener, many students prefer Lindall's version, which appeared in Heavy Metal Magazine and has a popular following among young people. It is generally thought that Lindall's illustrations for Paradise Lost are the greatest of the 20th century for Milton's poem. Professor Karen Karbiener, Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, gave a lecture at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center in 2004 on " ...Milton's Satan and his impact on countercultural artistic movements from William Blake to the Beat poets in essence, the artists "between" Milton and Lindall *^*, the radical artistic legacy." She is the general editor of a two volume survey of rebellious and reactionary American art forms, 1607-2004, the Encyclopedia of American Counterculture.

Although most critics and scholars consider Lindall to be a surrealist artist, it must be noted that a number of self-labeled, "surrealists" and self-labeled "surrealist" groups worldwide contend with this notion. Lindall considers these groups to be ouside the boundary of serious scholarship and clinging to a narrow and skewed concept of surrealism. That Lindall is a surrealist is generally accepted by the broad international community in Europe, the Far East and in America. When he makes a declaration on surreal/visionary art forms, it is taken very seriously throughout the world. In a recent article in the Minda News in the Philippines ^*, it was stated that the "achievement of Lindall's rightfully puts him in history's sparsely populated corridor next in line to Surrealism's political boss, the poet Andre Breton who wrote 'Beauty will be convulsive or nothing.'" Lindall, considered to be a leading authority on current surrealist art forms, wrote an article on "The New Surrealists" which appeared in the March 2006 issue of Art and Antiques Magazine (March, 2006). The article traces the continually evolving art form from the 1960s through today, citing several of the world's foremost artists. The article also states that surrealism will be ultimately vindicated as the "...foundation for all modern and contemporary art forms."

Apart from being an artist, Terrance Lindall has a background in philosophy and has been active in the Williamsburg Brooklyn art community ^*" target="_blank" >over the past few years. He writes for New York Arts Magazine, Block Magazine, and 11211 Magazine, a Breuk Iversen production, and other publications. His recent essay "The Epistemological Movement in Late 20th Century Art"*^*" target="_blank" >(1997) and APOCALYPSE 1999 Brave Destiny"*^*," target="_blank" >including nearly 500 artists. To evaluate the importance of the show he wrote his NEW INTERNATIONAL SURREALIST MANIFESTO (NISM), [http://www.cinemavii.com/Events/BraveDestiny/NISM.htm which subsequently claimed to redefine surrealism for a new generation. (However, various aspects of the "Brave Destiny" show as well as the "New International Surrealist Manifesto" were bitterly criticized by a number of "surrealists" who signed a document called "Craven Destiny" and threatened to burn down the show and kill the participants.) In order to avoid conflict with the seriously dedicated Cravinites, Lindall, accepted their concerns and renamed the style of art displayed as Pansurrealism to describe an all inclusive artistic style derived from ideas in Breton's "manifesto." The opening reception was a "Grand Surrealist Costume Ball to which people flew in from countries around the world for the one-night event, including Zimbabwe, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico and all across the United States. The arriving guests stopped traffic on the Williamsburg Bridge, the second time Lindall's shows have done this.

Terrance Lindall is a builder of institutions such as the Greenwood Museum in upper New York State, and has worked with Yuko Niiin developing the Williamsburg Art & Historical CenterNew York Times[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00E2D71231F93AA15753C1A9669C8B63&sec=&pagewanted=print" target="_blank" >^* about their creation of this institution.

In other aspects of his life, Lindall was in recent years the Financial Manager of Roundabout Theaterthe world's largest not for profit theater in New York City, and Assistant Treasurer and Business Manager of the American Numismatic Society[http://www.amnumsoc.org/, one of the United States' oldest museums with the largest and finest collections of coins and medals going back to the Greek coinage and Roman currency. He is now the President of the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center. He is an expert on not for profit law and finance.

Lindall has been in Kate Spade fashion ads appearing in The New York Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair and several other top magazines. In 2004 the Kate Spade ad campaign was featured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City *^*. A short film on this campaign, Visiting Tennessee, was produced by Andy Spade.

1944 births | Living people | American painters | People from Minnesota | Surrealism