Working with the central idea of the constructed image of a rose with all its itinerant
histories and meanings, etc. the works
in this exhibition, which include Mark Dutcher's
lovely albeit sorrowful rosebush made of colored wax and Sabina Ott's Mater Rosa I from a series of lithographs that depict the rose as a strangely regressive shape, mirroring the circle,
in some
way echo both the fragility and decadence of the rose as a central and narrative trope
in our ever - shifting human
history.