Rodder

About the Gallery
Rodder was founded in early 2025 by gallerist and independent art advisor Felix Rödder. Conceived as a platform that is both rigorous and welcoming—intellectually engaging yet deeply personal—the gallery offers a distinctive space for art and dialogue.

Located at 22 East 80th Street, Rodder occupies the top floor of a historic building shared by Old Master and modern and contemporary art dealers, embracing the charm and intimacy of a refined, residential viewing space while fostering a rich exchange between art historical periods and contemporary practice.

Guided by a deep dedication to the vision and integrity of artists, Rodder presents museum-quality exhibitions that invite meaningful encounters between the viewer and the work. The gallery represents a select roster of contemporary artists, stages focused shows by established mid-career and emerging voices, and engages actively in the secondary market—organizing historically grounded exhibitions and placing significant modern and contemporary works in both private and public collections.

About the Presentation
Rodder will present work by Joel Sternfeld in a solo presentation at Independent 20th Century. In the early 1970s, when Sternfeld first began to explore the nascent medium of color photography, only few guiding principles had been established. The perceptual ideas of Bauhaus artists like Josef Albers and Paul Klee became crucial to the chromatic organization of Sternfeld‘s work. These dye transfer prints, presented for the first time, foreground early exercises in his interaction with Bauhaus ideas. His heightened awareness of color allowed him to meditate about time and examine the realities of the nation’s population through deliberately glamour-less portraits, as opposed to the image of celebration that had come to signify Bicentennial nationalism. In 2009, he began revisiting early projects including this series, but to this day, these photographs have not been properly exhibited in New York City.