Publication: October 2003.
Events and Exhibitions

Current Exhibitions

Ten Years In Focus: The Artist and the Camera - J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Traces of the Sacred in Twentieth Century Art - Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (traveling)

Future Exhibitions

Loners & Mavericks - Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution - Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Recent Past Exhibitions

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution - PS 1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY (traveling)

Collecting Collections - Exhibition - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

MATRIX/REDUX - Exhibition - Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

Jay DeFeo: Where the Swan Flies - Exhibition - Moody Gallery, Houston, TX

Bob Nickas - Recent Acquisitions, Gifts, and Works from Various Exhibitions 1985-2008 - Exhibition - White Columns, New York, NY

An Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Dan Leach Collection - Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

The Third Mind - Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

Birds - Dwight Hackett projects, Santa Fe, NM

Pioneers - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA

Jay DeFeo: Applaud the Black Fact - Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA

Works in the Kunstkammer - Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

Summer Invitational - Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA

Measure of Time - Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle - Santa Monica Museum of Art (traveling)

Lines of Discovery - 225 Years of American Drawing from the Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA (traveling)

Jay DeFeo: No End - Works on Paper from the 1980s
Jay DeFeo: Botanicals: Photographs from the 1970s
- Dwight Hackett projects, Santa Fe, NM

Chance Encounters: The Formation of the de Menil's African Collection - The Menil Collection, Houston, TX

"out of my own head:" Photographs by Jay DeFeo - Mills College Art Museum (traveling)

Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection - Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Beside 'The Rose:' Selected Works by Jay DeFeo - Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
See related review: The New York Times, Friday, October 10, 2003

Recent Publications

"When a Plant is Not a Plant: The Botanical Photographs of Jay DeFeo" - Aperture Magazine, Spring 2007

Jay DeFeo and 'The Rose' - Publication





Ten Years In Focus: The Artist and the Camera
J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, CA
March 25 - August 10, 2008
Website: www.getty.edu



Traces of the Sacred in Twentieth Century Art
Centre Pompidou
Paris, France
May 7 - August 11, 2008
Download a pdf about the exhibition here

Haus der Kunst
Munich, Germany
September 18, 2008 - January 11, 2009



WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
March 4 - July 16, 2007

National Museum of Women in the Arts
Washington, DC
September 21 - December 16, 2007

PS 1 Contemporary Arts Center
Long Island City, NY
February 17 - May 10, 2008
Website: www.ps1.org

Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
October 4 - December 30, 2008




Loners & Mavericks
Nielsen Gallery
Boston, MA
June 21 - August 9, 2008
Website: www.nielsengallery.com



Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
February 10 - May 19, 2008
Website: www.moca.org



MATRIX/REDUX
Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley, CA
March 9 - May 18, 2008
Website: www.bampfa.berkeley.edu



Jay DeFeo: Where the Swan Flies
Moody Gallery
Houston, TX
March 7 - April 26, 2008



Bob Nickas - Recent Acquisitions, Gifts, and Works from Various Exhibitions 1985-2008
White Columns
New York, NY
February 22 - March 30, 2008
Website: www.whitecolumns.org



An Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Dan Leach Collection
Tucson Museum of Art
Tucson, AZ
September 15, 2007 - January 6, 2008



The Third Mind
Palais de Tokyo
Paris, France
September 27 - December 30, 2007



Birds
Dwight Hackett projects
Santa Fe, NM
October 13- December 8, 2007



Pioneers
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
San Francisco, CA
September 5 - November 10, 2007



Jay DeFeo: Applaud the Black Fact
Nielsen Gallery
Boston, MA
September 22- October 27, 2007



Works in the Kunstkammer
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
April - October 14, 2007



Summer Invitational
Nielsen Gallery
Boston, MA
June 23 - September 11, 2007
(gallery closed August 5 - September 3)



Measure of Time
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
February 22, 2006 - June 24, 2007




Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle
Santa Monica Museum of Art
Santa Monica, CA
September 17 - November 26, 2005


Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art
Utah State University
Logan, UT
January 10 - March 15, 2006


Ulrich Museum of Art
Wichita State University
Wichita, KS
April 21 - July 9, 2006


Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
October 17 - December 10, 2006


Grey Art Gallery
New York University
New York, NY
January 16 - March 31, 2007




Lines of Discovery - 225 Years of American Drawing from The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Gilcrease Museum
Tulsa, OK
June 17 - August 27, 2006

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
Kalamazoo, MI
September 23 - December 31, 2006

Arkansas Arts Center
Little Rock, AK
January 26 - April 22, 2007



Jay DeFeo: No End - Works on Paper from the 1980s
Jay DeFeo: Botanicals - Photographs from the 1970s
Dwight Hackett Projects
Santa Fe, NM
August 5 - September 30, 2006



Exhibition catalogue available with essays by:
Dana Miller
Associate Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art
click here to read essay
Anne Wilkes Tucker
Curator of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
click here to read essay

To order an exhibition catalogue:
Please send $35 USD check or money order (catalogues are sent US Media Mail) to:
Dwight Hackett projects
2879 All Trades Road
Santa Fe, NM 87507 USA



Chance Encounters: The Formation of the de Menil's African Collection
The Menil Collection
Houston, TX
May 26 - September 10, 2006




"out of my own head:" Photographs by Jay DeFeo
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
South Hadley, MA
September 6 - December 11, 2005

Mills College Art Museum
Oakland, CA
Essay by Stephan Jost
November 2 - December 12, 2004



Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
October 26, 2003 - January 11, 2004



Beside 'The Rose:' Selected Works by Jay DeFeo
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Organized by Dana A. Miller, Associate Curator of Postwar Art
October 2, 2003 - February 29, 2004

Related Publication: Jay DeFeo and 'The Rose'

Related Review: An Obsession, Now Excavated, The New York Times,
Friday, October 10, 2003



"When a Plant is Not a Plant: The Botanical Photographs of Jay DeFeo"
Essay by Anne Wilkes Tucker originally published in the catalogue for the exhibition Jay DeFeo: No End : Works on Paper from the 1980s, Botanicals: Photographs from the 1970s, presented at Dwight Hackett projects in Santa Fe, NM. August 5 - September 23, 2006. Edited for publication in Aperture.

click here to read original essay



Jay DeFeo and 'The Rose'
University of California Press and the Whitney Museum of American Art
October 2003.
To purchase "Jay DeFeo and 'TheRose'" go to:

University of California Press



Jane Green and Leah Levy, editors
Foreword by Marla Prather

Contributors:
Bill Berkson
Niccolo Caldararo
Richard Cándida Smith Judith Dunham
Walter Hopps
Lucy R. Lippard
Greil Marcus
Sandra S. Phillips
Carter Ratcliff
David A. Ross
Martha Sherrill




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Jay DeFeo and dogs with 'Masquerade in Black,' 1975.