Terrence Rogers 1953 - 2005 |
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Terrence Rogers wasn't just an art dealer, he was an art lover. Walking though a gallery with him was inevitably electrifying because his excitement and passion was palpable.
His health restored, he opened a new gallery, Terrence Rogers Fine Art, on Fifth Street in 1999, and continued to work, write and advise clients until shortly before he died in Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center on Friday, June 17, from complications following a stroke. He was 52. Unmoved by trends or fashions, Rogers was an iconoclast who cut his own path through the tangle of contemporary art, and championed observation-based painting and drawing rooted in American aesthetic traditions that date back to the Hudson River School.
Rogers was the founding member of the Santa Monica-Venice Art Dealers Association, and was instrumental in launching the first Los Angeles International.
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In 1980, he began work at the Tatischeff Gallery in New Your. In 1987, he came to Santa Monica and opened Tatischeff/Rogers Gallery on Broadway. Ten years later, he suffered kidney failure, and was forced to close the gallery. 
The technical gifts of the artists he represented ranged form intense, precisely controlled renderings to spontaneous, immediate plein-air painting, and the profound clarity of Rogers' sensibility won his gallery a unique place in the Los Angeles art scene.
A native of northern California, Rogers studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, and School of Visual Art in New York City. He is survived by his devoted partner of 28-years, Terry Martin, and his mother, Naomi Rogers, his sister Judy Jacoboni and his brothers Richard and Ron.