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Jess
(
American
, 1923–2004)
Jess
Assembly Lamp #7,
1963
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Jess
Self-Portrait,
ca. 1950
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Jess
Untitled
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Biography
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Timeline
1923
Born in Long Beach, CA
Born in Long Beach, California
1948
BS, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. Also studied at University of California, Berkeley, CA and California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA.
2004
Died in San Francisco, CA
Lives and works in San Francisco, California
Exhibitions
2013
SIGHT / VISION: The Urban Milieu, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
An Opening of The Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle, The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2012
The Painted Word, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
The Medicine Bag, Maccarone Gallery, New York, NY
Narcissus Reflected, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Bella Pacifica: Bay Area Abstraction, 1946 to 1963, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Private Future, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, NY
Four Decades, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Shred, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
Breathless Days 1959-1960: A Chronotropic Experiment, The Morris and Hellen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2009
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Metamorphosis Victorianus - Modern Collage, Victorian Engravings & Nostalgia, Ubu Gallery, New York, NY
Jess: To and From the Printed Page, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA. Traveling to: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI, Pasadena Museum of California Art. Pasadena, CA, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
2008
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Drawings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo exhibition)
Looking for mushrooms. Beat Poets, Hippies, Funk und Minimal Art: Art and Counterculture in San Francisco in 1968, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Enter Chien et Loup, Kent Gallery, New York, NY
Sight Vision Revisited, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2007
Pioneers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
Body Beware: 18 American Artists, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Semina Culture, Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York City, NY
Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Surface Matter: Collage from the collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Rock Paper Scissors: American Collage Now, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Collage Aesthetic, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
The Backroom: Sf, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2005
David Ireland, Jess and Al Souza, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
Pairings II, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Jess, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo exhibition)
2004
Poetry and its Arts: Bay Area Interactions 1954-2004, California Historical Society, San Francisco, CA
Ritalin, ART2102, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Not Exactly Photographs, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Various Properties, The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1999
Homage to the San Francisco Art Institute, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Dream Architecture, Kent Gallery, New York, NY
1998
Art from Around the Bay, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1996
Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1994
Jess: A Grand Collage, 1951-1993, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
1993
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Jess: A Grand Collage, 1951-1993, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY (solo exhibition)
1992
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
1990
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Jess: The Romantic Paintings, Palo Alto Cultural Center, CA (solo exhibition)
Jess: Emblems for Robert Duncan, San Jose Museum of Art, CA (solo exhibition)
Odyssia Gallery, New York, New York (solo exhibition)
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo exhibition)
1988
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1987
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
Jess: Translations, Salvages and Paste-Ups, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (solo exhibition)
1986
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1985
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1984
Jess: Paste-ups 1951-1956, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (solo exhibition)
1983
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo exhibition)
1982
Odyssia Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1981
The Arts Club Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo exhibition)
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
1980
University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (solo exhibition)
1977
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX (solo exhibition)
1975
Galleria Odyssia, Rome, Italy (solo exhibition)
1974
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
1972
Jess: Paste-ups 1951-1956, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo exhibition)
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Public Collections
Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
The Poetry/Rare Book Collection, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
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