Terence Main

Main grew up on rural farmlands and attended the Herron School of Art and Design in Indiana - polis, Indiana, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication. After graduating from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, with a Master of Fine Arts in Design, Main moved to New York, where he worked in a design office, co-founded the short-lived magazine Fetish, and formed the design partnership Main & Main with Laura Johnson, his wife at the time. Looking outside the boundaries of Classicism, Main responds to the rich material of Primitive art with furniture that intimates the power of Animist beliefs throughout human culture. The biomorphic elements of his pieces recall the fossilized remains of ancient creatures and ve - getation. They often have the look and feel of natural phenomena rather than man-made ob - jects and seem to exist within the generative and destructive cycles of nature. Main’s pieces can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum, both in New York; the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indiana; and the Cranbrook Art Museum, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, among others. They have been featured in numerous publications and exhibitions worldwide.