A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...an expansive group exhibition that examines the representational ubiquity and multivalent meaning of the rose throughout art history and popular culture. Drawing inspiration from Cy Twombly’s monumental, four-part painting The Rose III (2008), the exhibition takes this work as its thematic core for the way it situates the rose—both physically and figuratively—as an icon of beauty, enticement, excess and abjection, all at once.
A Rose Is will feature artworks by Polly Apfelbaum, Arakawa & Madeline Gins, Genesis Belanger, Joe Brainard, Louise Bourgeois, James Lee Byars, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Ann Craven, Sara Cwynar, Alex Da Corte, Jay DeFeo, Ethyl Eichelberger, Awol Erizku, Cerith Wynn Evans, Tony Feher, Allison Janae Hamilton, Gabriella Hirst, Peter Hujar, John Jarboe, Anna Jermolaewa, Sarah Jones, Anselm Kiefer, Lee Krasner, Dr. Lakra, George Platt Lynes, Robert Mapplethorpe, Nicolas Party, Irving Penn, Kay Rosen, James Rosenquist, Taryn Simon, Charles Sheeler, Kiki Smith, Haim Steinbach, Andy Warhol, among others..."
