“I hope they spread a lot of love.”That 1997 Berkeley show — was my first Rosie Lee Tompkins moment. He also wanted to promote it, devising Rosie Lee Tompkins as her “art” name, to preserve her privacy. He met Rosie Lee Tompkins at a flea market and became her fan, eventually bequeathing his collection to the Berkeley Art Museum. In this masterpiece of velvet, velveteen, faux fur and panne velvet, Rosie Lee Tompkins conjures a night sky as the center of an altarpiece devoted to heaven itself. They closed in one world and will reopen in a very different one, and the relevance of “Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective” has only expanded in the hiatus.

Source: New York Times June 26, 2020 09:00 UTC