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Jay DeFeo, Untitled, 1972

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November 16, 2020

Jay DeFeo: Selected Photographs – Marc Selwyn Fine Art Viewing Room

Marc Selwyn Fine Art presents an online viewing room of Jay DeFeo's selected photographs

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Jay DeFeo, Untitled (Shoetree series), 1977

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November 13, 2020

Gagosian Quarterly – JAY DEFEO’S TRANSCENDENT OBJECTS

Gagosian Quarterly, November 12, 2020, "Jay DeFeo’s Transcendent Objects" By Alice Godwin

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Jay DeFeo, Untitled, c. 1962-71

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November 13, 2020

Jay DeFeo in The Brooklyn Rail

The Brooklyn Rail, November 11, 2020, "Orbits of Known and Unknown Objects: SFAI Histories /…

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Jay DeFeo, Lotus Eater No. 1, 1974

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November 13, 2020

Jay DeFeo’s Generation: A Conversation hosted by Gagosian

Join Gagosian for a conversation on Jay DeFeo, November 17, 2020, 11AM PST

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Jay DeFeo, Untitled, 1971

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November 2, 2020

Catching Ideas in Process: Jay DeFeo’s Photography

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts is hosting a panel discussion, November 18, 2020, 5:00…

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Jay DeFeo, Trap, 1972

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October 16, 2020

Jay DeFeo in SF Chronicle

SF Chronicle, Datebook, October 16, 2020, "Jay DeFeo’s artwork defied labels, which is why it’s…

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Gagosian Transcending Definition: Jay DeFeo in the 1970s installation view

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October 16, 2020

Jay DeFeo in Musée Magazine

Musée Magazine, October 15, 2020, "JAY DEFEO: TRANSCENDING DEFINITION" By Alessandra Schade

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Jay DeFeo, Untitled, c. 1965

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October 7, 2020

Orbits of Known & Unknown Objects: SFAI Histories/MATRIX 277

The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) and the San Francisco Art…

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Jay DeFeo, The Verónica, 1957

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October 5, 2020

The Verónica on SFMOMA’s Open Space

We have been thinking about DeFeo's The Verónica. Those who may have missed these musings…

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Art Basel Miami Beach is now open for VIP previews

Art Basel Miami Beach is now open for VIP previews. Visit @marcselwynfineart at Booth D24 to see works by Jay DeFeo. The fair is open to the public from Friday, December 8 - Sunday, December 10.

Visit the link in bio to explore the booth preview.

[Jay DeFeo, "Samurai No. 5," 1987, Tempera, pastel and charcoal on rag board, 32 x 40 inches (81.3 x 101.6 cm). © 2023 The Jay DeFeo Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]

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See works by Jay DeFeo in @paulacoopergallery’s

See works by Jay DeFeo in @paulacoopergallery’s presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach, Booth A53. The fair is open December 8–10, 2023.

For more details, visit the link in our bio.

[1/2: Jay DeFeo, Untitled, 1972, Gelatin silver print, image: 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches (15.9 x 10.8 cm), sheet: 6 7/8 x 5 3/8 inches (17.5 x 13.7 cm); 2/2: Jay DeFeo, Untitled, 1972, Gelatin silver print, 9 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches (23.5 x 16.2 cm). © 2023 The Jay DeFeo Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]

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"The objects DeFeo photographed were deeply meanin

"The objects DeFeo photographed were deeply meaningful to her. In her 'portraits' they are also symbolically sticky; meaning clings to them. In some cases her affinities were almost involuntary. Like the Surrealists whose work she deeply admired, she found things in the world that mysteriously resonated – mannequin legs, a taxidermy ram’s head, or a rattan table in a thrift store window. Such chance connections were idiosyncratic and intensely particular, a quality DeFeo leaned into by combining these quirky finds into photo collages."

- Corey Keller, from “Found in Translation: Jay DeFeo and Photography,” "Jay DeFeo: Photographic Work"; © 2023 Corey Keller

[1/2: Jay DeFeo, Untitled, 1973, Gelatin silver print, image: 4 1/2 x 4 3/8 inches (11.4 x 11.1 cm), sheet: 5 x 4 1/2 inches (12.7 x 11.4 cm); 2/2: Jay DeFeo, Untitled, 1974, Photo collage, image: 4 11/16 x 4 5/8 inches (11.9 x 11.7 cm), sheet: 5 1/2 x 5 inches (14 x 12.7 cm) © 2023 The Jay DeFeo Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]

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“DeFeo’s painting palette focused on (very) bl

“DeFeo’s painting palette focused on (very) black, white, and the broadest range of what can be called gray. Her commitment to texture was a constant, as was a kind of restless maneuvering in the spaces between the figurative and the abstract, the delicate and the emphatic, the literal and the metaphoric, in seemingly endless variation. These opposites were part of the struggle and the exhilaration of mastering a new visual language. DeFeo’s vocabulary of form, shape, line, and depth exists as a thread throughout all of the media in which she worked, and her risk-taking is similarly ever present and often astounding.”⁠
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- Leah Levy, from “Introduction,” “Jay DeFeo: Photographic Work”; © 2023 Leah Levy⁠
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Follow the link in bio to learn more about ”Jay DeFeo: Photographic Work," a new monograph published by @delmonico_books • @artbook.⁠
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[Jay DeFeo, Untitled (“for B.C.”), 1973, Photo collage on matboard, 9 3/16 x 7 3/16 inches (23.3 x 18.3 cm). Collection of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. © 2023 The Jay DeFeo Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]⁠
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"Summer Landscape" (1982) by Jay DeFeo is currentl

"Summer Landscape" (1982) by Jay DeFeo is currently on view in "Women" at @nicole_klagsbrun_inc through February 28, 2024.⁠
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“Women” is a group show that continues Nicole Klagsbrun’s working engagement with artists and her decades-long commitment to presenting work made by women. Over the years, Klagsbrun has presented group and solo exhibitions with many of the artists in “Women,” adding several key chapters to her gallery’s robust history.⁠
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Follow the link in bio for additional information.⁠
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[Jay DeFeo, "Summer Landscape," 1982, Oil on paper, image: 6 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches (17.5 x 23.8 cm), sheet: 7 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (19.1 x 26.4 cm). © 2023 The Jay DeFeo Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]⁠
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Works by Jay DeFeo are currently on view at @themu

Works by Jay DeFeo are currently on view at @themuseumofmodernart in “Everyday Encounters” which features artists in the collection who posed a new set of conditions for art looking beyond traditional mediums and formats.

Follow the link in bio to learn more about the exhibition.

[1/2: Jay DeFeo, Untitled (Florence), 1952, Gouache, watercolor and ink on paper, 14 x 12 1/2 inches (35.6 x 31.8 cm). Collection of Museum of Modern Art, New York. 2/2: Jay DeFeo, Untitled ("Tripod" series), 1976, Graphite, ink, oil pastel and acrylic with tape and straight pin on cut out paper mounted on rag board, 14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm). Collection of Museum of Modern Art, New York© 2023 The Jay DeFeo Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]

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Reflecting on the remarkable life of Jay DeFeo, wh

Reflecting on the remarkable life of Jay DeFeo, who passed away 34 years ago today, on November 11, 1989.⁠
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[Jay DeFeo, "Last Valentine," 1989, Oil on linen, 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm). © 2023 The Jay DeFeo Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]

Remembering the removal of "The Rose" from Jay DeF

Remembering the removal of "The Rose" from Jay DeFeo’s Fillmore Street studio on November 9, 1965.

"In the San Francisco winter of 1965, eviction came for Jay DeFeo and her two-thousand- pound Rose. The tremendous painting— 'a huge novel in the middle of my life'—had dominated her physical, emotional, spiritual, and economic existence for eight long years. At roughly eleven feet tall, eight feet wide, and nearly a foot thick at its center, the artwork required significant but not unthinkable moving logistics, and several years prior DeFeo had acknowledged the demolition necessary to one day uproot her masterpiece. 'But somehow this doesn’t occur to me to be an obstacle in view of what I’ve already been through,' she wrote. And so, on November 9, a fleet of men from the Bekins Moving Company arrived to 2322 Fillmore Street, surveyed the colossus, assembled a custom wooden crate to bear it, sawed open the face of her bay window, and slid the work toward the edge; a raised forklift met them across the threshold."

-Jordan Stein, "RIP TALES: Jay DeFeo's Estocada & Other Pieces" (Soberscove Press, 2021)

[1/4: Moss Photography, "The Rose" being crated by Bekins crew, with Bruce Conner filming, November 9, 1965; 2/4: Moss Photography, Bekins crew lifting the packed and crated artwork, "The Rose," November 9, 1965; 3/4: Moss Photography, Bekins crew maneuvering the packed and crated artwork, "The Rose," to the open window, November 9, 1965; 4/4: View from the street below of "The Rose" being put through the window and out onto the waiting forklift, November 9, 1965. © 2023 The Jay DeFeo Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]

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"Jay DeFeo: Photographic Work" has been reviewed b

"Jay DeFeo: Photographic Work" has been reviewed by Karen Chernick for @artnet.⁠
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⁠"DeFeo soon became as experimental in her photos as she had been with her canvases, reversing negatives, cropping images, and sometimes not using negatives at all, but making chemigrams, exposing photographic papers to light and then pouring developer and fixer over them in painterly gestures. In a nod to the surreal quality of these prints, DeFeo titled a 1973 group of chemigrams 'Salvador Dalí’s Birthday Party.' 'She just wasn’t bound by any of the rules,” noted [Corey] Keller. 'If a medium had rules assigned to it, those went out the window.'"⁠
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Follow the link in bio to read "Beyond ‘The Rose’: A New Monograph Shines a Light on Abstract Expressionist Jay DeFeo’s Unseen Photography."⁠
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[Jay DeFeo, Self-portrait, 1972, Posthumous digital study reproduction from original negative. © 2023 The Jay DeFeo Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York] ⁠
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