Book Cover for Elizabeth Ferrell, About The Rose: Creation and Community in Jay DeFeo’s Circle, 2022.
Elizabeth Ferrell on About The Rose: Creation and Community in Jay DeFeo’s Circle.
Sunday, June 12, 2022 / 4:00 PM
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2155 Center Street
Berkeley, CA
Elizabeth Ferrell, associate professor of art history at Arcadia University, introduces her new book, About The Rose: Creation and Community in Jay DeFeo’s Circle. Ferrell examines the artistic exchange inspired by The Rose, the monumental painting that San Francisco artist Jay DeFeo (1929–1989) worked on almost exclusively from 1958 to 1966. The book explores the film, photography, painting, and poetry created by Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Wally Hedrick, and Michael McClure in dialogue with The Rose.
A book signing will follow.