The Rose presents the work of forty-four artists, dating from the 1960s through to the present, and proposes a circular genealogy of collage. The exhibition imagines an extended family of artworks, where kinship is forged through association, at once amplifying themes and providing context through similarity and difference, sounding out feelings and language as a collective effort. The works convene like the petals of a rose: a collage in and of itself.

The title is an homage to Jay DeFeo’s seminal work of the same name. It isn’t exactly a painting. It might very well be more architectural than sculptural, something to crawl through like a doorway or a cockleshell.It took eight years, DeFeo ladling paint to canvas one teaspoon at a time, for The Rose to swell to a weight of two tons. In order for it to be removed from her studio the building had to be cut open, as if given an episiotomy. Immediately after completing this monumental piece, DeFeo turned to photography and collage. The Rose taught her about circularity and art-making as an iterative process where one thing turns into another, entering a cycle of self-reference and mutation that amassed rotational gravity from its orbit.

Featuring the work of:

Ruth Asawa, Natalie Ball, Lee Bontecou, Vija Celmins, Philo Cohen, Jay DeFeo, Mary Beth Edelson, Tatiana Florival, Vanessa German, Bean Gilsdorf, Janice Guy, K8 Hardy, Leslie Hewitt, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, AK Jenkins, Baseera Khan, Kiki Kogelnik, Tarrah Krajnak, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jacky Marshall, Aspen Mays, Qiana Mestrich, Helina Metaferia, Shala Miller, Joiri Minaya, Rachelle Mozman Solano, Wangechi Mutu, Martha Naranjo Sandoval, Yamini Nayar, B. Ingrid Olson, Frida Orupabo, Gina Osterloh, Olivia Reavey, Wendy Red Star, Deborah Roberts, Sally Saul, Keisha Scarville, Gwen Smith, Pamela Sneed, Lorna Simpson, Lau Wai, Della Wells, Hannah Wilke, Francesca Woodman.

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