Overview
Terrance Lindall 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. In the book Ghastly Terror: The Horrible Story of the Horror Comics, ", Stephen Sennitt credits Lindall with the attempt to save the line of Warren horror magazines from extinction through his new style of cover art.
Lindall's book Paradise Lost Illustrated (poetry by John Milton) has been compared to other Milton illustrators including William Blake. According to New York University professor Karen Karbiener, many students prefer Lindall's version, which appeared in Heavy Metal magazine and has a popular following among young people. Professor Karbiener, a 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." Lindall owns Charles Lamb's copy of the first illustrated 1691 edition of Paradise Lost, as well as Lady Pomfret’s copy of the first illustrated edition (circa 1688). Pomfret was a noble 18th century British woman of great learning, and the Lady of the Bedchamber of Queen Caroline..
Apart from being an artist, Terrance Lindall has a background in philosophy and has been very active in the Williamsburg, Brooklyn art community . He writes for New York Arts Magazine, Block Magazine, and 11211 Magazine, a Breuk Iversen production, and other publications. His essay "The Epistemological Movement in Late 20th century Art" assesses what he sees as the new artistic trends in the contemporary art world and its context in new thinking about fractal geometry, quantum mechanics, historical will, and epistemological and analytic traditions. He curated Charles Gatewood's "The Body and Beyond" (1997) and "Apocalypse 1999" . "Apocalypse 1999" was the most lavish art production seen in Williamsburg to date, including over 125 artists from around the world and incorporating many provocative musical and theatrical productions. Since then, Lindall has produced the show "Brave Destiny", including nearly 500 artists. For the show he wrote his New International Surrealist Manifesto (NISM), . The opening reception was a one-night "Grand Surrealist Costume Ball" event for which people flew in from countries around the world, including Zimbabwe, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada and Mexico. The arriving guests stopped traffic on the Williamsburg Bridge, the second time Lindall's shows have done this. Lindall, wrote an article on "The New Surrealists" which appeared in the March 2006 issue of Art and Antiques Magazine (March, 2006), tracing the continually evolving art form from the 1960s through today, citing several of the world's foremost artists.
Terrance Lindall is a builder of institutions such as the Greenwood Museum and the Upperville Meeting House in New York State, and has worked with Yuko Nii in developing the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, which has achieved international recognition. A full-page article appeared in the New York Times about their creation of this institution. Lindall is mentioned in the book Museum Founders alongside such notables as Augustus Pitt Rivers, Hans Sloane, Peggy Guggenheim, Nelson Rockefeller, Elias Ashmole, and many other builders of outstanding institutions .
In other aspects of his life, Lindall served as financial manager of Roundabout Theater Company, the world's largest not-for-profit theater in New York City, and as assistant treasurer and business manager of the American Numismatic Society, one of the United States' oldest museums with the largest and finest collections of coins and medals going back to Greek coinage and Roman currency. He is currently the president of the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, and is an expert on not-for-profit law and finance.
Lindall has been in Kate Spade fashion ads appearing in several other top magazines. In 2004, the Kate Spade ad campaign was featured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in a groundbreaking show "Fashioning Fiction" . A short film on this campaign, Visiting Tennessee, was produced by Andy Spade.
Lindall’s art for Paradise Lost appears on the cover of Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, released by Random House in 2008. Holt Rinehart & Winston used another Lindall Paradise Lost image in a 2009 high school textbook. Oxford University's major exhibit "Citizen Milton" at the Bodleian Library (to which Milton himself personally donated copies of many of his works), honoring Milton's 400th birthday, used one of Lindall's artworks for Paradise Lost from the Nii Foundation collection. Oxford University has also recognized Lindall's contribution to the continuing Miltonian artistic legacy . Available only to scholars, a signed copy of Terrance Lindall's Paradise Lost Illustrated is in the Robert J. Wickenheiser Collection of the Thomas Cooper rare book library at the University of South Carolina. The collection's special focus on illustrated editions make it perhaps "the most comprehensive collection ever of Milton illustration."
Lindall enjoys working with composers and musicians on his projects, believing that artists and their work are elevated by interaction of disciplines. His art is in the collections of both Stephen Schwartz, the famous lyricist for Broadway and films and winner of three Academy Awards, and Michael Karp, whose music is perhaps the most performed on television. Famed Lutheran hymn writer Amanda Husberg even composed a requiem mass for Terrance Lindall in recognition of his contributions to the understanding of and earthly resurrection of John Milton's "glorious" Paradise Lost. Noted Lutheran hymn text writer and poet Richard Leach wrote a new text for the requiem mass. Lindall commented, "It will be the final act of my Paradise Lost project and acknowledgement of my own resurrection. The 'two handed engine of truth and justice' will prevail in resurrecting the spirit of John Milton!"
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