The Jewel in Modern Art exhibition at LACMA
June 25, 2021
The Jewel in Modern Art exhibition at LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art's exhibition Modern Art opened on June 13, 2021 and…
!["For an artist absorbed with themes of vision and the apparatus of sight, it seems natural that DeFeo would zero in on her swimming goggles as 'an object of observation,' photographing two pairs and making drawings of them in 1977. Her attention to surface and light is evident in the way she captured the translucency and reflectivity of the plastic lenses as well as the deep matte black of the teardrop-shaped padding."
-Dana Miller, “Jay DeFeo: A Slow Curve,” Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 39-40.
[1/3: Jay DeFeo, Untitled ("Water Goggles" series), 1977, Acrylic, graphite and charcoal on paper, 15 x 20 inches (38.1 x 50.8 cm), Whitney Museum of American Art; 2/3: Jay DeFeo, Untitled ("Water Goggles" series), 1977, Acrylic, graphite, charcoal and ink on paper, 15 x 20 inches (38.1 x 50.8 cm), Paestum Foundation. Photograph: @bblackwellphoto; 3/3: Jay DeFeo, Water goggles and a fragment of jewelry, 1977. Posthumous digital study reproduction from original negative. © 2024 The Jay DeFeo Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]
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