Kirsten Everberg & Pae White
March 4 – June 28, 2026 | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Installation view of Rhapsody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser Collection, March 4–June 28, 2026, at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Berkeley, CA. Photo: Chris Grunder.
'Rhapsody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser Collection', at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is curated by Margot Norton, Chief Curator. The exhibition presents paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, and photographs from the collection of Penny Cooper and Rena Rosenwasser, which are part of a generous bequest to the BAMPFA Collection.
Penny Cooper, a celebrated defense criminal defense attorney and advocate for social justice, and Rena Rosenwasser, a poet and cofounder of the Bay Area-based feminist publishing house Kelsey Street Press, have been longtime supporters of BAMPFA and champions of women artists for six decades.
Arranged into groupings reflecting themes such as abstraction, design, and representations of the body, the exhibition reflects both the dynamism of artmaking over the last half century and the close personal relationships that the couple has developed with artists, many of whom have exhibited at BAMPFA.