Jay DeFeo
- Introduction
- Jay DeFeo (March 31, 1929 – November 11, 1989) was a visual artist who first became celebrated in the 1950s as part of the spirited community of Beat artists, musicians, and poets in San Francisco. Best known for her monumental work The Rose, DeFeo produced courageously experimental works throughout her career, exhibiting what art critic Kenneth Baker called “fearlessness.”
- Wikidata
- Q15522104
- Introduction
- In the 1950s, DeFeo was allied with a group of Beat artists, poets, and musicians in San Francisco. She is best known for her monumental painting 'The Rose,' which she spent eight years making. She created a diverse range of work spanning four decades, and her unconventional approach to materials and physical process make her work difficult to categorize.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Female
- Roles
- Artist, Painter, Photographer, Sculptor
- Names
- Jay DeFeo, Mary Joan DeFeo
- Ulan
- 500112022
Exhibitions
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Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury
Through Jun 5
MoMA
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Artist’s Choice: Amy Sillman—The Shape of Shape
Oct 21, 2019–Oct 4, 2020
MoMA
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Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction
Apr 15–Aug 13, 2017
MoMA
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Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography
May 7, 2010–Apr 18, 2011
MoMA
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Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Apr 22, 2009–Jan 4, 2010
MoMA
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Jay DeFeo has
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