Terry Rose is a mature painter who relocated to Rhode Island in 2001 after some fifteen years in the Los Angeles art world.  Recently, he’s begun making his paintings by introducing oils and micron pigments, through a variety of means, into wet varnish, and the hydraulic interaction of these elements generates his singular imagery.  His forms suggest the organic, the aquatic, and the cosmic, and yet, of course, they are in fact none of these.  The paintings, and the spacious realms they seem to depict, are the result of Rose’s materials mix. They achieve something like an aura of awe.

Rose's work is on exhibition in a major survey of new abstract painting, Abstract New England: Six Perspectives at the University of Maine Museum of Art, October 2-December 31, 2009.

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