24″x20″; collage with paper pins; 2022. Courtesy Galerie Nordenhake, the artist, and the Miller Meigs Collection.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
The Rose
at CPW in Kingston, New York, USA
24 May-31 August, 2025
Organized by artist Justine Kurland and CPW curator Marina Chao, “The Rose” is a sprawling exploration of collage as feminist form, strategy, and genealogy. It includes works by fifty contemporary artists, as well as several key figures from the 1960s and ’70s. Radical and political by its cut-apart and dissonant nature. 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.
dimensions variable; UV prints on Sintra, fabric; 2016. Courtesy of the artist.
The artists use archival materials, family photographs, vernacular imagery, paint, scraps of paper, ceramics, textiles, film, and more as their material—cutting, ripping, and rending apart the whole, necessitating the reparative act of gluing, binding, and assembling things into a new unity. And yet their work moves beyond violent refusal; its energy, mysticism, and eroticism are transformative, helping us to imagine new ways forward.
(text adapted from material provided by the venue)
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