Terry Rodgers (born September 11, 1947) is an American figurative painter known for his large scale canvases that focus on portraying contemporary body politics. He graduated cum laude from Amherst College in Massachusetts in 1969, with a major in Fine Arts. His strong interest in film and photography influenced his style in the direction of representational realism in art. His paintings are large, complex designs that attempt to reflect his sense of the times we are living in and both how richly interesting they are and how difficult it is for most of us to navigate their uncharted waters.

Rodgers began drawing as a young child. He seriously began experimenting with color when his mother gave him her set of old paints.

As a precocious artist, he was seducing unsuspecting friends to model for him in increasingly compromising attire. Imagine his delight, when at drawing classes at the Corcoran School of Art, he had the good fortune to be confronted with an enormous, loosely fat, woman considerably his elder.

In 2005, three of his monumental figurative canvases were presented at the Valencia Biennial. Abroad he has had solo exhibitions in galleries in Amsterdam, Zurich and Milan, and participated in group shows around the world. In the United States, he has had solo gallery exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Chicago.

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