Visit the gallery
Dick Termes paints whole worlds onto spheres.
Open Monday–Saturday, 9 AM–5 PM. Closed Sundays. 1920 Christensen Drive, Spearfish, SD. Free admission.
Get directions“One of the nation’s more unusual art spaces.”
The New York Times
Plan your visit
Admission is always free. Donations welcome.
Hours
Open Monday–Saturday, 9 AM–5 PM.
Closed Sundays.
Address
1920 Christensen Drive
Spearfish, SD
Phone
(888) 642-4805
Questions before you go
What is a Termesphere?
Traditional perspective typically uses one, two, or up to five vanishing points. Dick Termes developed his own system with six: one for each direction the eye can travel, up, down, left, right, forward, and behind. He painted his first Termesphere in 1968, and it lets him map a complete environment onto the surface of a sphere. The idea behind it is simple to state and strange to sit with: every person is always standing at the center of their own spherical world. Drag the sphere below to see it from every angle he painted.
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"Very interesting, peaceful experience. Would've liked to meet the artist, but gallery staffer was extremely well informed. The studio is a geodesic dome with a galaxy of Termespheres rotating to classical music."