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 titledÌýThe RoseÌý(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 includeÌýLucyÌýBradnockÌý(Associate ProfessorÌýUniversity of Nottingham),ÌýJudithÌýDelfinerÌý(AssociateÌýProfessor of Contemporary Art History, Paris Nanterre University),ÌýPiaÌýGottschallerÌý(Senior Lecturer,Ìý 51°µÍø),ÌýSuzanne HudsonÌý(Associate Professor of Art History and Fine Arts, University of Southern California),ÌýCorey KellerÌý(Curator of Photography and Acting Department Head, Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art),ÌýJoy MazurekÌý(Assistant Scientist, Getty Conservation Institute), andÌýCatherine SpencerÌý(Lecturer, University of St Andrews).
Programme
4:30pm: Introduction by Jo Applin and Pia Gottschaller
4:40pm: Lucy Bradnock, “Jay DeFeo’s Bodies: Painting as a Muscular Principleâ€
5:00pm: Catherine Spencer, “Abstraction in Piecesâ€
5:20pm: Pia Gottschaller and Joy Mazurek, “The Dialectics of Paintingâ€
5:40pm: Q&A
6:00pm: Break
6:10pm: Judith Delfiner, “Jay DeFeo: Xerox Imagesâ€
6:30pm: Suzanne Hudson, “Encoreâ€
6:50pm: Corey Keller, “Sidestepping the Image Directly: The Growth of Jay DeFeo’s Cabbage Roseâ€
7:10pm: Q&A
7:25pm: Closing remarks by Leah Levy, Executive Director of The Jay DeFeoÌýFoundation
Organised by Professor Jo Applin ( 51°µÍø) and Dr Pia Gottschaller ( 51°µÍø)
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