ARTIST MONOGRAPHS

Jay DeFeo

Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays


       

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Jay DeFeo: Photographic Work

DELMONICO BOOKS/THE JAY DEFEO FOUNDATION
Edited with introduction by Leah Levy. Text by Hilton Als, Judith Delfiner, Corey Keller, Justine Kurland, Dana Miller, Catherine Wagner.

A revelatory trove of innovative photo collages, photograms, photographs and photocopies—many never before published—most reproduced at the size DeFeo printed them

Clth, 9.75 x 12 in. / 256 pgs / 29 color / 166 bw. | 8/22/2023 | In stock
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Rip Tales: Jay DeFeo's Estocada and Other Pieces

SOBERSCOVE PRESS
By Jordan Stein.

On the life and afterlives of Jay DeFeo’s Estocada, a work created in the shadow of The Rose

Pbk, 5.75 x 8.75 in. / 160 pgs / 54 color / 10 bw. | 12/7/2021 | In stock
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Outrageous Fortune: Jay DeFeo and Surrealism

MITCHELL-INNES & NASH
Edited by Cassandra Lozano, Kevin Choe, Anna Drozda. Text by Dana Miller.

Pbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 116 pgs / 92 color / 1 bw. | 10/23/2018 | In stock
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Jay DeFeo: Chiaroscuro

JRP|RINGIER
Text by John Yau.

Hbk, 10 x 12.25 in. / 112 pgs / 36 color / 19 bw. | 9/30/2013 | In stock
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Jay DeFeo: Photographic WorkJay DeFeo: Photographic Work

Published by DelMonico Books/The Jay DeFeo Foundation.
Edited with introduction by Leah Levy. Text by Hilton Als, Judith Delfiner, Corey Keller, Justine Kurland, Dana Miller, Catherine Wagner.

This monograph on the legendary and influential artist Jay DeFeo features over 150 photographic works—many never before published—most reproduced at the size the artist printed them. After the completion of her monumental masterpiece The Rose in 1966, DeFeo moved from the heart of artistic activity in San Francisco to a small house in Marin County, California. There she embarked on a focused and rigorous exploration with the camera. For much of the 1970s, she used the camera as a tool to look and think with, creating a wide range of black-and-white photographs she processed in her darkroom. The artist used experimental photographic techniques to produce extraordinary artworks, alongside documentary images of her studio and paintings in process. Her contact sheets, some of which are reproduced here, are often filled with multiple views of one object, revealing the way DeFeo looked and sketched with the lens. In 1972 she wrote: "My interest in photography has always paralleled my expression as a painter."
Essays by Hilton Als, Judith Delfiner, Corey Keller, Justine Kurland, Dana Miller and Catherine Wagner survey the rich materiality, sculptural layering and illusionistic devices of DeFeo’s playful and enigmatic photographic works, illuminating her astonishing range and daring experimentation with the medium.
Jay DeFeo (1929–89) was a Bay Area artist who created an original and provocative body of work, including the iconic painting The Rose (1958–66). In the 1970s and 1980s, DeFeo continued her visionary work in a range of mediums, including works on paper, photography, collage and photocopies. Among many other exhibitions, a retrospective of her work was organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2012.



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Catalog: FALL 2023 p. 25   

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Rip Tales: Jay DeFeo's Estocada and Other PiecesRip Tales: Jay DeFeo's Estocada and Other Pieces

Published by Soberscove Press.
By Jordan Stein.

In 1965, Jay DeFeo (1929–89) was evicted from her San Francisco apartment, along with the 2,000-pound colossus of a painting for which she would become legendary, The Rose. The morning after it was carried out the front window, DeFeo was forced to destroy the only other artwork she’d started in six years, an enormous painting on paper stapled directly to her hallway wall. The unfinished Estocada—a kind of shadow Rose—was ripped down in unruly pieces and reanimated years later in her studio through photography, photocopy, collage and relief.
Drawing from largely unpublished archival material, Rip Tales traces for the first time Estocada’s material history, interweaving it with stories about other Bay Area artists—Zarouhie Abdalian, April Dawn Alison, Ruth Asawa, Lutz Bacher, Bruce Conner, Dewey Crumpler, Trisha Donnelly and Vincent Fecteau—that likewise evoke themes of transformation, intuition and process. Foregrounding a Bay Area ethos that could be defined by its resistance to definition, Rip Tales explores the unpredictable edges of artworks and ideas.



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Paperback, 5.75 x 8.75 in. / 160 pgs / 54 color / 10 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2021 p. 122   

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Outrageous Fortune: Jay DeFeo and SurrealismOutrageous Fortune: Jay DeFeo and Surrealism

Published by Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
Edited by Cassandra Lozano, Kevin Choe, Anna Drozda. Text by Dana Miller.

Published for an exhibition of paintings, photographs, collages and works on paper by Jay DeFeo (1929–89), this catalog features full-color reproductions and an introductory essay highlighting DeFeo’s surrealist sensibility in her juxtaposition of forms, mixing of genres and experimentation with chance.



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Mitchell-Innes & Nash

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Paperback, 9.5 x 11 in. / 116 pgs / 92 color / 1 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2018 p. 158   

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Jay DeFeoJay DeFeo

Published by Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
Text by Walead Beshty.

Published on the occasion of Jay DeFeo's (1929–89) first exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash featuring 50 key works spanning the years 1965–89, this volume examines DeFeo's distinctive exploration of visual vocabulary, rich materiality and experimental process across the mediums of painting, drawing, photography and rarely seen photocopy works. The catalogue features two double-page spreads of major paintings: "Lotus Eater" from 1974 and "Tuxedo Junction" from 1965/74, the latter having the distinction of being one of the only remaining works which DeFeo worked on while she worked on "The Rose." The essay by Los Angeles–based artist Walead Beshty focuses on the handful of forms and objects that appear and reappear in DeFeo's work, accruing meaning incrementally over time.

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Mitchell-Innes & Nash

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Hardcover, 9 x 11.5 in. / 86 pgs / 50 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2015 p. 136   

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Jay DeFeo: ChiaroscuroJay DeFeo: Chiaroscuro

Published by JRP|Ringier.
Text by John Yau.

This new monograph on Jay DeFeo (1929–1989) focuses on her late work, the paintings of the 1980s as well as the exceptional corpus of drawings of the 1980s and her photographic oeuvre of the 1970s. It thus complements the book published on the occasion of her Whitney Museum retrospective in 2013. DeFeo was part of a vibrant community of avant-garde artists, poets and musicians in San Francisco during the 1950s and 1960s. Her circle included Wallace Berman, Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Wally Hedrick, Edward Kienholz and Michael McClure. Although best known for her monumental painting "The Rose" (1958–1966), DeFeo worked in a wide range of media and produced an astoundingly diverse and compelling body of work over four decades. Her unconventional approach to materials and her intensive, physical method made her a unique figure in postwar American art.

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Hardcover, 10 x 12.25 in. / 112 pgs / 36 color / 19 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2014 p. 123   

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