March 21 – May 9, 2026
John Cage and Kay Rosen
Krakow Witkin Gallery
In Person Viewing:
10 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02116
Online Viewing:
https://www.krakowwitkingallery.com/exhibition/john-cage-and-kay-rosen/
“I think my primary appreciation of Cage’s Ryoanji works is the process and how the decisions are made. I feel a close affinity to his passive approach as it is similar to mine, in which choices are determined by the materials themselves and by non-subjective actions (chance for him; for me, found pre-existing bits of language that generate their own rules, structure, and interior logic, depending on the components of the text.) Minimal intervention by both of us.”
– Kay Rosen
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.
