The title The Ripple Effect , pairing Jay DeFeo with a cast of other artists, conveys the sense of a wave carrying a solo exhibit into a larger group, one artist reverberating with many.

Jay DeFeo is the artist from San Francisco who created The Rose . The focus of this exhibition is on the works that followed, as she closely examined materials and reformulated compositional approaches with everyday objects as models : turning the ordinariness of a box of tissues, a photographer's tripod, a cabbage leaf, or a dark hole into motifs generating mysterious and transcendent echoes within her works and beyond.

The « ripple effect » manifests in the work of the ten artists in this dialogue with DeFeo not as comments, but as parallels ; not through compassion, but through ornery confrontation-a conversation of contrasts and inspiration.