THE ROSE
May 24 – August 31, 2025
Opening reception: Saturday, May 24, 2025, 5-8 PM
Curated by Justine Kurland and Marina Chao
The exhibition The Rose, organized by artist Justine Kurland and CPW curator Marina Chao, is a sprawling exploration of collage as feminist form, strategy, and genealogy. It includes works by over fifty contemporary artists, as well as several key figures from the 1960s and ’70s.
Radical and political by its cut-apart and dissonant nature, collage, as curator Justine Kurland writes, “urges us to honor revision and reprisal as correctives for the skewed lenses that distort our worldview.” In this context, art-making is highlighted as an iterative process where one thing turns into another, replacing hierarchies with cyclical, organic, and revolutionary energy.
