This exhibition of Stones is presented by PK House resident artist Emily Hopkins. For this exhibition, Hopkins has composed an original score to illustrate each of the lithographs on display.

Stones is a series of lithographs by poet Frank O’Hara (1926-1966) and artist Larry Rivers (1923 - 2002). Begun in 1957 and completed in 1960, the collaboration was the first major project of Tatyana Grosman’s Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), a printmaking studio based in West Islip, New York. Following this maiden publication, ULAE would go on to produce some of the most important American print projects of the 20th and 21st centuries. Stones was both O’Hara’s and Rivers’ first foray into the medium of lithography. The pair, who were both professional and romantic partners, struggled with the mechanics of the process and made a pact only to work on a stone while in the same room with one another. The resulting works blend word and image in a series of twelve prints, as well as a title page and colophon, which are as immediate and raw as the artists who yielded them.

In the Summer of 2025, the Stones lithographs will be exhibited at the Pollock-Krasner House in East Hampton, New York. The prints will be accompanied by an original score composed and performed by PK House resident artist Emily Hopkins. In addition to the physical exhibition, the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center will partner with ULAE to publish an album of Hopkins’ compositions along with an insert booklet reproducing O’Hara’s and Rivers’ lithographs. Emily Hopkins’ residency thesis project is a celebration of collaboration and human connection. Hopkins’ sonic illustration of Stones aims to introduce the work to a new audience while also producing a highly original work of art in and of itself.

Emily Hopkins (b 1993) is an electroacoustic harpist and an artist-in-residence at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center. While researching the friendship between Lee Krasner and Frank O’Hara, Hopkins was led to Stones. A lifelong admirer of O’Hara’s poetry, she was struck by the unique nature of the project and by O’Hara’s often tumultuous relationship with Rivers. The rejection that O’Hara often felt from Rivers, who was not publicly homosexual, is temporarily resolved in the intimate world of Stones, a collaboration which provided for the two artists an intimate new reality all their own. Hopkins has produced twelve original compositions interpreting each of the twelve lithographs that comprise Stones, further building upon a seminal work that is by nature collaborative.