Kay Rosen‘s painting Spring (2021), was part of the 2024 group exhibition Healing at Sikkema Molloy Jenkins in NYC. You can currently see this work as part of John Cage and Kay Rosen at Krakow Witkin Gallery in Boston. The exhibition opens 3/21 and runs until 5/9/26.
From Krakow Witkin Gallery about the exhibition-
The current exhibition arranges works from the past 15 years by Kay Rosen with works from 1983 by John Cage. While not an obvious aesthetic or conceptual pairing, the juxtaposition of works hopes to provide more nuanced understanding and appreciations of both artists’ approaches to observation, appreciation, chance, choice, and control.
And about the painting-
SPRING, like many of Rosen’s works, strives for efficiency and economy. It finds a way to enhance the meaning of spring without adding a word. It cannibalizes one of its own body parts, the letter N, turning spring into sprig, five little green shoots. SPRING is another one of those found works that almost makes itself. Her intervention is merely a small excision of a letter, leaving behind a new word that that suggests hope.