Jay defeo biography

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Jay DeFeo (b. 1929, New Hampshire) was a celebrated member of the San Franciscan community of artists, poets, and jazz musicians. DeFeo often incorporated a wide variety of media into her artworks, using plaster, paper, and plastic to create painterly collages. Similarly, she practised a multiplicity of art forms, including drawing, painting, photography. The artist is best known for her monumental work The Rose, which took almost eight years to create and weighed a tonne when completed. The piece is built out of layers of mica, oil, and wood on a canvas, and in DeFeo’s words represented a ‘marriage between painting and sculpture’. The Whitney Museum of American Art conserved and acquired The Rose in 1995.

DeFeo studied at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work is held in the permanent public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the British Museum, and Centre Pompidou. Her work has been exhibited at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; the Getty Centre, Los Angeles; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Jay DeFeo Foundation was established to encourage the arts and preserve DeFeo’s work.

DeFeo died in 1989

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Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective

Feb 28–June 2, 2013

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The Beat Movement Project

Beat painter...funk artist...romantic at heart

Jay DeFeo was born in 1929 in Hanover, New Hampshire, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received a bachelor’s degree in 1950 and a master’s in 1951, both in studio art, from the University of California, Berkeley. Upon graduation, she was awarded a fellowship and traveled to Europe and North Africa for a year and a half, settling in Florence for six months. DeFeo worked intensively on what became her first significant body of work, influenced by Abstract Expressionism, the geometry of Italian architecture, and her ongoing fascination with Asian, African, and prehistoric art.