Coral and Lichen, Brains and Bowels: Jay DeFeo’s Hybrid Abstraction
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Spencer, Catherine
Date published
2015
Abstract
Situating the US artist Jay DeFeo within a network of West Coast practitioners during the 1950s and 1960s, this essay shows how her relief paintings – layered with organic, geological and bodily referents – constitute what can be understood as ‘hybrid abstraction’. This has affinities with ‘eccentric abstraction’ and ‘funk art’, but also resonates with the socio-political context of Cold War America.
Journal title
Tate Papers
Issue
23
Publisher
Tate
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
1753-9854
Rights statement
In Copyright