February 27-June 21, 2025
The FLAG Art Foundation is pleased to present A Rose Is, an expansive group exhibition centering on Cy Twombly’s monumental, four-part painting The Rose III, 2008, which combines colossal roses, exploding in full bloom, alongside text fragments from Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s “The Roses.” A conflation of painting and poetry, the Twombly forms the jump-off point for an exhibition that explores abstraction, poetics, language, and the iconography and mythology of the rose. The working artist list includes Polly Apfelbaum, Louise Bourgeois, James Lee Byars, Sara Cwynar, Alex Da Corte, Ethyl Eichelberger, Awol Erizku, Cerith Wyn Evans, Tony Feher, Arakawa & Madeline Gins, Allison Janae Hamilton, Eikoh Hosoe, Jasper Johns, Sarah Jones, Anselm Kiefer, Lee Krasner, Dr. Lakra, Robert Mapplethorpe, Nicolas Party, Kay Rosen, James Rosenquist, Taryn Simon, Andy Warhol, among others