Teresa Cole
2026 Upcoming Professor-in-Residence • Printmaker
Internationally recognized printmaker and installation artist, Teresa Cole explores pattern as a visual language that links history, culture, and identity.
A professor of art at Tulane University since 1994, the artist holds the Maxine and Ford Graham Chair in Fine Art. Her long-standing artistic inquiry focuses on ornamental structures, not as mere decoration, but as a form of cultural expression and visual knowledge. In her work, pattern becomes both subject and method: a tool for organizing information, shaping perception, and sometimes subverting it. Through layering, magnification, and shifts in scale, she examines how visual systems can encode meaning, memory, and disruption.
Her large-scale relief and screen-printed installations respond to architecture while subtly reconfiguring spatial experience. They may stretch across walls or unfold into sculptural forms, weaving repetition, rhythm, and optical effects into immersive environments. Whether carved in wood, constructed from hand-dyed paper, or assembled with bamboo and pulp, these compositions engage cultural memory through visual tension. She places abstraction and representation in dialogue, exploring the space between ornament and critique, seduction and analysis, the viewer and the viewed.
Invited to La Maison de Simon through the Professor-in-Residence initiative, the artist will spend time in Normandy observing, reflecting, and allowing the surrounding landscape to inform her ongoing exploration of form and meaning.
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Teresa Cole
2026 Upcoming Professor-in-Residence • Printmaker
Internationally recognized printmaker and installation artist, Teresa Cole explores pattern as a visual language that links history, culture, and identity.
A professor of art at Tulane University since 1994, the artist holds the Maxine and Ford Graham Chair in Fine Art. Her long-standing artistic inquiry focuses on ornamental structures, not as mere decoration, but as a form of cultural expression and visual knowledge. In her work, pattern becomes both subject and method: a tool for organizing information, shaping perception, and sometimes subverting it. Through layering, magnification, and shifts in scale, she examines how visual systems can encode meaning, memory, and disruption.
Her large-scale relief and screen-printed installations respond to architecture while subtly reconfiguring spatial experience. They may stretch across walls or unfold into sculptural forms, weaving repetition, rhythm, and optical effects into immersive environments. Whether carved in wood, constructed from hand-dyed paper, or assembled with bamboo and pulp, these compositions engage cultural memory through visual tension. She places abstraction and representation in dialogue, exploring the space between ornament and critique, seduction and analysis, the viewer and the viewed.
Invited to La Maison de Simon through the Professor-in-Residence initiative, the artist will spend time in Normandy observing, reflecting, and allowing the surrounding landscape to inform her ongoing exploration of form and meaning.