Terry Adkins, African American Composer of Art, Sculptor of Music, Dies at 60

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Margalit Fox

Terry Adkins in the Arctic preparing a piece on Matthew Henson, a black explorer who accompanied Peary there in 1909.

NEW YORK---Terry Adkins, a conceptual artist whose work married the quicksilver evanescence of music to the solid permanence of sculpture, died on Feb. 8 at his home in Brooklyn. He was 60. The cause was heart failure, his dealer Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn said. His work will be shown this year as part of the Whitney Biennial, which runs from March 7 to May 25 at the museum. Thelma Golden, the director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, said in an interview on Friday. “He was so deeply inspired by aesthetics, philosophy, spirituality, music, history and culture, and he had such a fertile and generative mind, that he was always able to move between many different ideas and create a lot of space and meaning in a work.” [link]