Jay DeFeo: A Symposium

The Research Forum

This is a live online event hosted by The Research Forum at The Courtauld. This event is supported by the Jay DeFeo Foundation.

The platform and login details will be sent to all registered attendees at least 48 hours before the event. Please note that registration closes 30 minutes before the event start time. Important: If you have previously ever opted out of Eventbrite emails you will not receive the login details for this event after registering. Please email researchforum@courtauld.ac.uk if you do not receive a confirmation email. Please check your junk folder before emailing us just in case it is in there. 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 titled The 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 include Lucy Bradnock (Associate Professor University of Nottingham), Judith Delfiner (Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History, Paris Nanterre University), Pia Gottschaller (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), and Catherine Spencer (Lecturer, University of St Andrews).  Image: Jay DeFeo, The Rose (1958-1966), oil on canvas with wood and mica, 327.34 x 234.32 x 27.94 cm. Estate no. E1000. Whitney Museum of American Art; gift of The Jay DeFeo Foundation and purchase with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee and The Judith Rothschild Foundation 95.170. Photograph: Ben Blackwell. Copyright 2021: The Jay DeFeo Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkSupported by

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