Jay DeFeo "Photographs/Works on Paper"
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery
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This exhibition brings together a select group of works from the 1950s through the 1980s as a special project in partnership with the Jay DeFeo Trust.
The works on view reveal DeFeo’s rejection of the “hierarchy of media,” effacing boundaries between photography, drawing, painting, and sculpture and between abstraction and representation. Brigid Doherty has written, “although she manipulates two-dimensionality with a keen eye for optical play, the central image pushes the pictorial space beyond the literal surface of the paper.” In these works, opposites interpenetrate: dark is contained within light, and vice versa; the smooth appears rough— haptic qualities are translated into visual effects. DeFeo’s experiments with photography and numerous material processes reflexively connect the act of formal composition to her studio practice, embedding one within the other. An abstract ink wash drawing from the 1950s is echoed in an undulating photograph of silver mylar from the 1970s, while a photograph of shattered glassware shares the interest in transparence, openings, and overlay found in her graphite and acrylic drawings from the 1980s.
[Image: Jay DeFeo "Summer Landscape No. 20: The Separation" (1982) oil and tape on paper, 11.5 x 15.75 in.]
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Schedule
from January 15, 2010 to March 06, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-01-15 from 18:00 to 20:00