The Variable Frequencies of Restraint. 2009.
Oil on canvas.
Signed, dated and titled on the folded canvas on the reverse. Stretcher with several direction arrows. 180 x 244 cm (70.8 x 96 in). [CH/JS].

• Rodger makes the observer peeper of an erotically charged, decadent larger-than-life orgy.
• Owing to their facinating love for detail, Terry Rodgers’ hyper-realistic large-size scenes, often with a multitude of figures, resemble monumental history paintings.
• Rodgers depicts the shallow and decadent American upper class.
• Rodgers contrasts material abundance, luxury and sexual arousal with the emotional void and unrelatedness of his protagonists.
• Recently Rodgers’ painting was part of the grand retrospective "The American Dream. American Realism 1945-2017" at Kunsthalle Emden.

PROVENANCE: Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels.
Private collection (acquired from the above in 2010).
Private collection Italy.
Private collection Southern Germany.

EXHIBITION: Boundaries of Desire, Scheringa Museum voor Realisme, Spanbroek, May 17 - September 13, 2009 (with the exhibition label on the reverse of the stretcher).
Bending the Cosmos, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, February 28 - March 28, 2009.
Radical Continuity, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, January 15 - February 27, 2010.

LITERATURE: Eva Karcher, Dimensions of Ambiguity, Amsterdam 2009.
"The drive to connect, the drive to relate, the drive for sex, the drive to appear wonderful, to be accepted, these are all confused with each other and seemingly in our DNA. And so has it changed? Not really."
Terry Rodgers, 2018, in an interview with Elena Martinique.