Terry Rose's paintings are a fine line between abstraction and representation. On the one hand, his paintings are careful arrangements of shapes and colors, and subtle manipulations of perceived space. But on the other, the ambiguous shapes suggest a host of things that we know well: cells and suns, clouds and spores.

Rose's practice is entirely contemporary. His paintings are part of a larger discourse among twenty-first-century artists that seeks to explore, simultaneously, the phenomena of the microcosm and the macrocosm, the organic and the inorganic, perception and the imagination, and the ultimate interconnectedness of all things. With this generation of painters, our minds, and our propensity to create aesthetic and intellectual information. Rose's paintings are like lenses that slide in magnification and focus to reveal, at once, the structures and wonders of the very largest and very smallest things that we can comprehend.

Terry Rose was born in 1939 in Chicago Illinois. He has has solo and group exhibitions at Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI, Denise Bibro Fine Arts, New York, NY, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO among others.