Publication: October 2003.	Events and Exhibitions Current Exhibitions A Selection of Works from MOCA's Permanent Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Collection Show - Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA Future Exhibitions Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective - Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY The Spirit Level, curated by artist Ugo Rondinone - Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY Painting - Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design - Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY DeFeo will have a one-person exhibition at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in June–July, 2013. Recent Publications A Magazine Curated by Rodarte - December 2011 "When a Plant is Not a Plant: The Botanical Photographs of Jay DeFeo" - Aperture Magazine, Spring 2007 Jay DeFeo and 'The Rose' - Publication Recent Past Exhibitions Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design - Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY Night Scented Stock - Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY DeFeo - Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA Art Platform—Los Angeles - L.A. Mart (Dwight Hackett projects), Los Angeles, CA Beyond Tradition: Art Legacies at the Richmond Art Center - Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA Abstract Now and Then - Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY elles@centrepompidou, artistes femmes dans les collections du Centre Pompidou - Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Uses of the Real - Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT Bella Pacifica: Bay Area Abstraction, 1946-1963 - David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY Looking Back / The Fifth White Columns Annual - Selected by Bob Nickas - White Columns, New York, NY The Anniversary Show - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Earth Paint Paper Wood: Recent Acquisitions - The Menil Collection, Houston, TX Happy Birthday, Mr. Blum! - an Exhibition of Works Selected by Irving Blum - Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA 35 Years Anniversary Exhibition - Moody Gallery, Houston, TX Swagger, Drag, Fit Together - Wallspace, New York, NY Sunless (Journeys in Alta California since 1933), organised by Walead Beshty - Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England Summer Landscape - Dwight Hackett projects, Santa Fe, NM Rehistoricizing Abstract Expressionism in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1950s-1960s - Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA I.G.Y. - Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years, 1940-80 - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA In Focus: Photographs from the Mills College Art Museum Collection - Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA Jay DeFeo: Photographs/Works on Paper - Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Sight Vision Revisited - Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA Jay DeFeo: Samurai - Dwight Hackett projects, Santa Fe, NM 20 Years: Anniversary Group Exhibition - Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye - Berkeley Art Museum, Berkely, CA San Francisco Art Institute Alumni & Faculty: A Thin Slice - Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA Looking for Mushrooms. Beat Poets, Hippies, Funk and Minimal Art: Counterculture in San Francisco around 1968 - Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution - Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC Ten Years In Focus: The Artist and the Camera - J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA Traces of the Sacred in Twentieth Century Art - Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany Traces of the Sacred in Twentieth Century Art - Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (traveling) Loners & Mavericks - Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution -Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (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 Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective Organized by Dana A. Miller, Curator of Collections, Whitney Museum of American Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (opening venue) 151 Third Street San Francisco, CA November 3, 2012–February 3, 2013 Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street New York, NY February 28–June 2, 2013 The catalogue includes contributions by – Dana A. Miller, Curator of Collections, Whitney Museum of American Art – Corey Keller, Associate Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Associate Director for Conservation & Research, Whitney Museum of American Art – Michael Duncan, art critic and independent curator – Greil Marcus, writer and cultural critic – Chronology by Diana Kamin, Senior Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Meredith George Van Dyke The Spirit Level, curated by Ugo Rondinone Gladstone Gallery 515 West 24th Street New York, NY March 23–April 28, 2012 Artists included are Latifa Echakhch, Ann Craven, Andrew Lord, Jay DeFeo, Amy Grant, Sarah Lucas, Klara Liden, Alan Shields, Hans Josephson, Hans Schärer, Sam Gilliam, Joe Bradley, Peter Buggenhout, Saul Fletcher, Martin Boyce, Rudolf Schwarzkolger and Al Hanson. Painting Galerie Eva Presenhuber Diagonal Building, Maag Areal Zahnradstrasse 21 Zurich June 9–July 28, 2012 Artists included are Joe Bradley, Valentin Carron, Verne Dawson, Jay DeFeo, Carroll Dunham, Matias Faldbakken, Urs Fischer, Alex Hubbard, Karen Kilimnik, Tim Rollins & K.O.S, Ugo Rondinone, Dieter Roth, Jean-Frederic Schnyder, Steven Shearer, Josh Smith, Franz West and Sue Williams. Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design Museum of Arts and Design 2 Columbus Circle New York, NY October 12, 2011–January 15, 2012 Website: www.madmuseum.org   Memorial Art Gallery 500 University Avenue Rochester, NY February 26–May 20, 2012 Website: mag.rochester.edu Art Platform—Los Angeles Contemporary and Modern Art Fair L.A. Mart (Dwight Hackett projects) 1933 South Broadway Los Angeles, CA October 1–October 3, 2011 Website: www.artplatform-losangeles.com Night Scented Stock curated by Todd Levin Marianne Boesky Gallery 118 East 64 Street New York, NY September 14–October 22, 2011 Website: www.marianneboeskygallery.com DeFeo Hosfelt Gallery 430 Clementina Street San Francisco, CA September 10–October 22, 2011 Website: www.hosfeltgallery.com Beyond Tradition: Art Legacies at the Richmond Art Center Richmond Art Center Richmond, CA March 29 - June 10, 2011 Website: www.therac.org Abstract Now and Then Berkeley Art Museum Berkeley, CA February 16 - April 17, 2011 Website: www.bampfa.berkeley.edu Bella Pacifica: Bay Area Abstraction, 1946-1963 David Nolan Gallery New York, NY January 11 - February 5, 2011 Website: www.davidnolangallery.com Looking Back / The Fifth White Columns Annual - Selected by Bob Nickas White Columns New York, NY December 11, 2010 - January 9, 2011 Website: www.whitecolumns.org Happy Birthday Mr. Blum! - an Exhibition of Works Selected by Irving Blum Louis Stern Fine Arts West Hollywood, CA October 7 - November 6, 2010 Website: www.louissternfinearts.com 35 Years Anniversary Exhibition Moody Gallery Houston, TX September 11 - October 16, 2010 Website: www.moodygallery.com Swagger, Drag, Fit Together Wallspace New York, NY September 9 - October 16, 2010 Website: www.wallspacegallery.com Sunless (Journeys in Alta California since 1933), organised by Walead Beshty Thomas Dane Gallery London, England September 2 - October 2, 2010 Website: www.thomasdane.com Earth Paint Paper Wood: Recent Acquisitions The Menil Collection Houston, TX August 27 - November 28, 2010 Website: www.menil.org A Selection of Works from MOCA's Permanent Collection Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA July 13, 2010 - Ongoing Website: www.moca-la.org Summer Landscape Dwight Hackett projects Santa Fe, NM July 10 - August 7, 2010 Website: www.dwighthackett.com Read the Press Release here Rehistoricizing Abstract Expressionism in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1950s-1960s Luggage Store Gallery San Francisco, CA June 4 - July 31, 2010 Website: www.rehistoricizing.org I.G.Y. (Curated by Todd Levin) Marianne Boesky Gallery New York, NY May 22 - July 30, 2010 Website: www.marianneboeskygallery.com Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography Museum of Modern Art New York, NY May 7, 2010 - April 4, 2011 Website: www.moma.org Collection Show Oakland Museum of California Oakland, CA May 1, 2010 - December 2, 2013 Website: www.museumca.org The Anniversary Show San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, CA December 19, 2009 - January 16, 2011 Website: www.sfmoma.org Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years, 1940-80 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA November 15, 2009 - May 3, 2010 Website: www.moca-la.org elles@centrepompidou, artistes femmes dans les collections du Centre Pompidou Centre Pompidou Paris, France May 27, 2009 - February 21, 2011 Website: www.cnac-gp.fr In Focus: Photography from the Mills College Museum Collection Mills College Art Museum Oakland, CA January 20 - March 14, 2010 Website: www.mills.edu Jay DeFeo: Photographs/Works on Paper Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery New York, NY January 15 - March 6, 2010 Website: www.nicoleklagsbrun.com Sight Vision Revisited Gallery Paule Anglim San Francisco, CA September 8 - October 10, 2009 Jay DeFeo: Samurai Dwight Hackett projects Santa Fe, NM August 1 - September 12, 2009 20 Years: Anniversary Group Exhibition Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery New York, NY June - August 2009 San Francisco Art Institute Alumni & Faculty: A Thin Slice Baer Ridgway Exhibitions San Francisco, CA May 16 - June 20, 2009 Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Museum of Modern Art New York, NY April 22, 2009 - January 4, 2010 Website: www.moma.org Galaxy: A Hundred of So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye Berkeley Art Museum Berkeley, CA February 25 - August 30, 2009 Website: www.bampfa.berkeley.edu Looking for Mushrooms. Beat Poets, Hippies, Funk and Minimal Art: Art and Counterculture in San Francisco around 1968 Ludwig Museum Cologne, Germany November 8, 2008 - March 1, 2009 Traces of the Sacred in Twentieth Century Art Centre Pompidou Paris, France May 7 - August 11, 2008 Haus der Kunst Munich, Germany September 18, 2008 - January 11, 2009 Loners & Mavericks Nielsen Gallery Boston, MA June 21 - August 9, 2008 Ten Years In Focus: The Artist and the Camera J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles, CA March 25 - August 10, 2008 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 Vancouver Art Gallery Vancouver, British Columbia October 4 - December 30, 2008 MATRIX/REDUX Berkeley Art Museum Berkeley, CA March 9 - May 18, 2008 Jay DeFeo: Where the Swan Flies Moody Gallery Houston, TX March 7 - April 26, 2008 Exhibition catalogue available with essay by: Jens Hoffmann, Director, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco click here to read essay To order an exhibition catalogue: Please contact: Moody Gallery 2815 Colquitt Houston, TX 77098 USA 713.526.9911 Bob Nickas - Recent Acquisitions, Gifts, and Works from Various Exhibitions 1985-2008 White Columns New York, NY February 22 - March 30, 2008 Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection Museum of Contemporary Art, Grand Avenue, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA February 10 - May 19, 2008 Uses of the Real Nora Eccles Harriscon Museum of Art, Utah State University Logan, UT January 2008 - April 2011 Birds Dwight Hackett projects Santa Fe, NM October 13- December 8, 2007 The Third Mind Palais de Tokyo Paris, France September 27 - December 30, 2007 Jay DeFeo: Applaud the Black Fact Nielsen Gallery Boston, MA September 22- October 27, 2007 Exhibition catalogue available with essay by: Bruce Hainley click here to read essay To order an exhibition catalogue: Please send $25 USD check or money order to: Nielsen Gallery 179 Newbury Street Boston, MA 02116 USA To order with a credit card, please call the gallery at 617.266.4835 An Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Dan Leach Collection Tucson Museum of Art Tucson, AZ September 15, 2007 - January 6, 2008 Pioneers CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts San Francisco, CA September 5 - November 10, 2007 Summer Invitational Nielsen Gallery Boston, MA June 23 - September 11, 2007 (gallery closed August 5 - September 3) Works in the Kunstkammer Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA April - October 14, 2007 Chance Encounters: The Formation of the de Menil's African Collection The Menil Collection Houston, TX May 26 - September 10, 2006 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 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 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 "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 A Magazine Curated by Rodarte from Belgium, December 2011 Includes a section focused on DeFeo's painting The Rose with a reprint of Martha Sherrill's essay from the book Jay DeFeo and ‘The Rose.’ "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 Top Jay DeFeo and dogs with 'Masquerade in Black,' 1975.