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.
The artists in The Rose 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.
ARTISTS:
Natalie Ball
Gretchen Bender
Lee Bontecou
Lindsay Buchman
Vija Celmins
Philo Cohen
Mary Beth Edelson
Eléonore
Tatiana Florival
Pippa Garner
Vanessa German
Bean Gilsdorf
Girl (Simone Leigh and Chitra Ganesh)
Janice Guy
Barbara Hammer
K8 Hardy
Leslie Hewitt
Sheree Hovsepian
Jessica Jackson Hutchins
AK Jenkins
Baseera Khan
Kiki Kogelnik
Tarrah Krajnak
Justine Kurland
Lynn Hershman Leeson
Spandita Malik
Jacky Marshall
Aspen Mays
Qiana Mestrich
Helina Metaferia
Shala Miller
Joiri Minaya
Rachelle Mozman Solano
Cheryl Mukherji
Wangechi Mutu
Martha Naranjo Sandoval
Yamini Nayar
Shelley Niro
Toshiko Okanoue
B. Ingrid Olson
Frida Orupabo
Gina Osterloh
Elizabeth Pedinotti Haynes
Claire Pentecost
Virginia Reath
Olivia Reavey
Wendy Red Star
Deborah Roberts
Sally Saul
Keisha Scarville
Lorna Simpson
Gwen Smith
Pamela Sneed
Lau Wai
Della Wells
Hannah Wilke
Carla Williams
This CPW exhibition is curated by Justine Kurland and Marina Chao. The Rose was originally organized by Justine Kurland, Sarah Miller Meigs, and Libby Werbel for the lumber room in Portland, Oregon. It is accompanied by the publication The Rose: A Circular Genealogy of Collage (lumber room, 2025).
To listen to thirty-two of the artists in The Rose speak about their process and their work, access CPW’s free exhibition guide from Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture platform.
Banner: Jacky Marshall, Pink Squirrel, 2022. Collection CPW, Gift of the Keith and Peggy Anderson Family Foundation.
Grid (from left to right):
Vanessa German, a holy blue togetherness for planetary awareness of the single universal breath #9, 2022
Rachelle Anayansi Mozman Solano, Popular images portrayed populations either as undisciplined savages to U.S. interests and hegemony or as children who needed guidance, 2024
Wendy Red Star, bálaaisshe (purse); baaísshikshe (saddle bag)
Frida Orupabo, Peony, 2022
Jacky Marshall, Pink Squirrel, 2022
AK Jenkins, Regarding Kate Rushin (After Robert Giard), 2020
K8 Hardy, Collage (ABOUT THIS ISSUE), 2015
Hannah Wilke, Kneaded Eraser (Walt Whitman), 1975
Lorna Simpson, Ultra Terrestrial, 2016-17
