Artworks by Jay DeFeo at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery on artnet

Jay DeFeo

(American, 1929–1989)

Jay DeFeo

Untitled (Impressions of Africa), 1986

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Jay DeFeo

Untitled (Dressed Tripod), ca. 1976

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Jay DeFeo

Josho, 1984

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Jay DeFeo

Untitled (Sage), 1970

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Jay DeFeo

Study for Verdict, 1982

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Jay DeFeo

Untitled (For B.C.), 1973

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Jay DeFeo

Untitled (four torso forms), ca. 1973

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Jay DeFeo

Untitled (for B.C.), 1973

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Jay DeFeo

Untitled (Shoe Tree) Larkspur, 1977

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Jay DeFeo

Untitled (Jewelry Sketch), 1978

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Jay DeFeo

Untitled (Minnie), 1980

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Jay DeFeo

Alabama Hills No. 19, 1987

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Jay DeFeo

Summit Ridge Drive No.3, 1980

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Biography

Timeline

1929: Born, Hanover, NH
1946 - 1950: B.A. in painting from University of California at Berkeley, CA
1950 - 1951: M.A. in painting from University of California at Berkeley, CA
1951: Sigmund Martin Heller Traveling Fellowship, University of California - Berkeley
1973: National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship
1982: Honorary Doctorate from San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1984 - 1985: Adaline Kent Award, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1985 - 1986: National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship
1989: Died in Oakland, California
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Exhibitions

2013: Jay DeFeo: Chiaroscuro, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2012: Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco/CA, USA (solo)
: Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York/NY, USA (solo)
: Painting Now, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
: Night Scented Stock, curated by Todd Levin, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York/NY, USA
: Beyond Tradition: Art Legacies at the Richmond Art Center, Richmond Art Center, Richmond /CA, USA
: Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design, Museum of Arts and Design, New York/NY, USA
: Abstract Now and Then, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley/CA, USA
2011: Bella Pacifica: Bay Area Abstraction, 1946-1963, organized by Nyehaus, David Nolan Gallery, New York/NY, USA
: DeFeo, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco/CA, USA (solo)
: Jay DeFeo: Photographs/Works on Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York/NY, USA (solo)
2010: The Anniversary Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco/CA, USA
: Different Strokes: 20th Century Drawing, George Adams Gallery, New York/NY, USA
: In Focus: Photographs from the Mills College Art Museum Collection, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland/CA, USA
: I.G.Y. (Curated by Todd Levin), Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York/NY, USA
: Collection Show, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland/CA, USA
: Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York/NY, USA
: Rehistoricizing Abstract Expressionism in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1950s-1960s, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco/CA, USA
: Jay DeFeo: Summer Landscape, Dwight Hackett projects, Santa Fe/NM, USA (solo)
2009: Samurai, Dwight Hackett projects, Santa Fe/NM, USA (solo)
2008: Traces of the Sacred in Twentieth Century Art, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
: Where the Swan Flies, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
: The Third Mind, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
: An Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Dan Leach Collection, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
: Summer Invitational, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
: Pioneers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
: Works in the Kunstkammer, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA
: WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver British Columbia
2007: Jay DeFeo: Applaud the Black Fact, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
: Birds, Dwight Hackett projects, Santa Fe, NM
2006: Chance Encounters: The Formation of the de Menil's African Collection, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
: Beat Generation and Beyond, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
: Lines of Discovery - 225 Years of American Drawing from The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
: Twice Drawn, Tang Museum, Sarasota Springs, NY
: Jay DeFeo: No End, Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, NM
: Jay DeFeo: Botanicals, Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, NM
: Measure of Time, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA
: "out of my own head:" Photographs by Jay DeFeo, Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
: Beat Generation and Beyond, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
2005: Draw, Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, NM
: Assemblage and Collage in California in the 1960s, 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
: Semina Culture: Wallace Berman and His Circle, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT; Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
2004: "out of my own head:" Photographs by Jay DeFeo, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
: Turning Corners, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
: The True Artist is an Amazing Luminous Fountain: Selected Works from the di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC; de Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa, CA; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
: Between Art and Life: The Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: It's About Time: Celebrating 35 Years, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
: Beat Generation and Beyond, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
: Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
: Not Exactly Photographs, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003: Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
: In Sequence, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
: Zen and Modern Art, University Art Gallery, California State University, Hayward, CA
: Presence, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
: Beat Generation and Beyond, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
: Beside 'The Rose:' Selected Works by Jay DeFeo, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Jay DeFeo: Her Tripod and Its Dress, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
: Jay DeFeo: Ingredients of Alchemy, Before and After The Rose, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2002: Jay DeFeo: Photographs, Cabrillo College Art Gallery, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA
2000: True Grit, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1999: The American Century: Art and Culture, 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1997: The Rose, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (solo)
1996: Jay DeFeo: Works 1952-1989, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
1995: Beat Culture and the New America 1950-1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1990: Jay DeFeo, An Intimate View: Small Paintings 1986-1989, Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA (solo)
1989: Jay DeFeo: In Memoria - A Selection of Paintings, 1986-1989, The Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA (solo)
1986: Dissonant Abstractions, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
1984: Jay DeFeo: Selected Works Past and Present, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1981: Selections from the Permanent Collection, University Art Museum, University of California - Berkeley
1976: Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1975: Jay DeFeo, Isabelle Percy West Gallery, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (solo)
1966: Nine California Artists: Abstract Expressionists, Pasadena Art Museum, CA
1960: Jay DeFeo, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1959: Sixteen Americans, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1954: Jay DeFeo, The Place, San Francisco, CA (solo)

Literature

2002: 'Jay DeFeo: Ingredients of Alchemy, Before and After The Rose'. New York, NY: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 2002

Jay DeFeo

(American, 1929–1989)

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Biography

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