Inside Justine Kurland and Marina Chao’s Defiant Collage Exhibition
Emily Steer, AnOther
June 2025
Collage can be a powerful means of creative protest. Involving the violent acts of ripping, cutting, and slicing, this rebellious art form sees images transformed to confront the strict cultural codes of their original making. The Rose, an expansive group show at CPW (Center for Photography at Woodstock), brings fifty contemporary artists including Wangechi Mutu, Vija Celmins and Wendy Red Star together with 1960s and 70s trailblazers. The show is curated by artist Justine Kurland and CPW curator Marina Chao – the former worked on a previous iteration with Sarah Miller Meigs and Libby Werbel at The Lumber Room in Portland.