From the 1950s the avant-garde artist Jay DeFeo (1929-1989) was a member of a vibrant bohemian community of artists, musicians, poets and writers based in San Francisco. Best known today for her magisterial painting titledThe Rose(1958-1966), which the artist described as ‘a marriage between painting and sculpture’, over the course of her long career DeFeo experimented widely, and intensely, with a range of unorthodox materials, exploring the parameters and expansive limits of painting, sculpture, drawing, collage, photocopies and photography.
This one-day conference brings together a group of scholars based in the United States, Europe, and the UK, to discuss the work of DeFeo, shedding light on aspects of her work from a range of new perspectives. Speakers includeLucyBradnock(Associate ProfessorUniversity of Nottingham),JudithDelfiner(AssociateProfessor of Contemporary Art History, Paris Nanterre University),PiaGottschaller(Senior Lecturer,The Courtauld),Suzanne Hudson(Associate Professor of Art History and Fine Arts, University of Southern California),Corey Keller(Curator of Photography and Acting Department Head, Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art),Joy Mazurek(Assistant Scientist, Getty Conservation Institute), andCatherine Spencer(Lecturer, University of St Andrews).
Programme
4:30pm: Introduction by Jo Applin and Pia Gottschaller
4:40pm: Lucy Bradnock, “Jay DeFeo51ݶ Bodies: Painting as a Muscular Principle”
5:00pm: Catherine Spencer, “Abstraction in Pieces”
5:20pm: Pia Gottschaller and Joy Mazurek, “The Dialectics of Painting”
5:40pm: Q&A
6:00pm: Break
6:10pm: Judith Delfiner, “Jay DeFeo: Xerox Images”
6:30pm: Suzanne Hudson, “Encore”
6:50pm: Corey Keller, “Sidestepping the Image Directly: The Growth of Jay DeFeo51ݶ Cabbage Rose”
7:10pm: Q&A
7:25pm: Closing remarks by Leah Levy, Executive Director of The Jay DeFeoFoundation
Organised by Professor Jo Applin (The Courtauld) and Dr Pia Gottschaller (The Courtauld)
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