Termesphere Gallery Information

Dick Termes was raised in Spearfish, South Dakota. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Education from his hometown Black Hills State University and began a career as an educator. It was during this period that Dick discovered his passion for sharing ideas. After four years as a high school art and biology teacher, Dick continued his education at the University of Wyoming, where he received a Master’s Degree in Art and began exploring perspective art. Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles offered him a full scholarship for three of the four semesters to complete his Master of Fine Arts degree. In 1971, he returned to his native South Dakota and took a position at Black Hills State University as an Associate Professor of Art. He loved time spent in the classroom helping aspiring artists reach their creative potential. Eventually, Dick chose to nurture his own potential and pursue his art on a full-time basis. Since then, he has flourished as an artist. In 1992, he opened the Termesphere Gallery just outside of Spearfish that has been visited by thousands of art enthusiasts from around the globe. Termespheres are in permanent collections all over the world—from the Glasgow Science Centre and the Science Centre Singapore, to the Department of Mathematical Sciences at West Point Military Academy and Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Dick’s art is featured in dozens of publications, illustrating concepts in art, math, psychology, optical illusions, and even economics. He has presented art and math seminars and lectures not only across the country, but all over the world. “One of the nation’s more unusual art spaces can be found off a well maintained gravel road outside Spearfish, in a geodesic dome festooned with fantastical globes that their creator, the artist Dick Termes, has called ‘Termespheres.’ They are essentially three-dimensional Escher-esque paintings on spheres, created with a technique he calls six-point perspective.” New York Times