# Terry Pyles

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'''Terry Pyles''' is an Alaskan artist whose work includes depictions of the sights and scenery in the state.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rasmuson.org/enjoy-cat/art-collection/terry-pyles/|title=Terry Pyles}}</ref> He makes sculptures and paints.

Pyles painted a [still life](/source/still_life) depicting fellow artist Dave Rubin surrounded by a bounty of Alaskan fish after being inspired by [Alejandro de Loarte](/source/Alejandro_de_Loarte)’s painting "The Kitchen" (1610) at Rijksmuseum in [Amsterdam](/source/Amsterdam).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sitkaharborguide.com/terry-pyles-abundant-depth-an-artists-profile/|title=Terry Pyles: Abundant Depth &#124; Sitka Harbor Guide}}</ref> The [Rasmuson Foundation](/source/Rasmuson_Foundation) funded the acquisition of one of his paintings to donate it to a museum in 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sitnews.us/0604news/061206/061204_pyles_painting.html|title=SitNews - Ketchikan Museums Acquires Terry Pyles Painting|website=www.sitnews.us}}</ref>

His public sculptures include mosaic tile toppers on dock pilings that were inspired by architecture in [Barcelona](/source/Barcelona).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UfjuKBo0D-0C&q=terry+pyles&pg=PA43|title=Alaska's Inside Passage|first=Ann|last=Chandonnet|date=May 5, 2009|publisher=Fodor's Travel Publications|isbn=9781400009022|via=Google Books}}</ref> They were made in collaboration with Dave Rubin.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ketchikanstories.com/|title=Ketchikan Story Project|website=ketchikanstories.com}}</ref> He created an NOAA fisheries poster with Ray Troll.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dk0YAQAAIAAJ&q=terry+pyles|title=Managing Our Nation's Fisheries: Past, Present, and Future : Proceedings of a Conference on Fisheries Management in the United States, Held in Washington, D.C., USA, November 13-15, 2003|date=May 5, 2004|publisher=NPFMC|via=Google Books}}</ref> He and Kroll also collaborated on an interactive piece titled Spawn-O-Rama based on [Plinko](/source/Plinko) at the [Sitka Sound Science Center](/source/Sitka_Sound_Science_Center).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.krbd.org/2013/10/21/troll-pyles-collaborate-to-make-spawn-o-rama/|title=Troll, Pyles collaborate to make 'Spawn-O-Rama'|date=October 21, 2013}}</ref>

Pyles has collaborated with fellow Ketchikan artist [Ray Troll](/source/Ray_Troll).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHRtdqlM4LYC&q=terry+pyles&pg=PT25|title=Rapture of the Deep: The Art of Ray Troll|first=Ray|last=Troll|date=May 5, 2004|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520239470|via=Google Books}}</ref> Pyles also created a salmon sculpture on [Ketchikan Creek](/source/Ketchikan_Creek) to replace a wooden one by local carver Jones Yeltatzie (born 1897), a [Haida](/source/Haida_people), that had deteriorated.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.krbd.org/2013/07/08/new-salmon-sculpture-honors-original-artist/|title=New salmon sculpture honors original artist|date=July 9, 2013}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://vimeo.com/156650261 Short video clip about Pyles] on Vimeo
*[http://www.6vitesse-on-tour.com/interviews/terry-pyles-alaska/?lang=en Interview with Pyles]

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