12 September - 10 October Reception 12 September 4-6 pm Gallery Hours Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat: 10 am - 5:30 pm Thurs: 11 am - 7 pm
alter ego: Latin, "the other I." The sub-conscious. In literary analysis, used to describe characters that are psychologically similar, or a fictional character that stands in or speaks for the author.
An exhibition of 55 paintings, photographs, collages and drawings - 46 of which have never been exhibited before - traces relationships between pairs or groups of works, examining ideas of the doppleganger and yin yang in Jay DeFeo's oeuvre.
DeFeo's artworks were modeled on objects from her daily life, which she re-imagined in an astonishing range of media and techniques. An object that inspired her might be drawn over and over from different angles or in new mediums, photographed repeatedly with each print manipulated differently in the darkroom, described in ink then oil, then graphite, then gouache. DeFeo might Xerox a drawing she particularly liked, arranging it on the bed of the photocopy machine with other images or objects to create works akin to photograms. She'd cannibalize her own works - fragmenting them, collaging with them or re-photographing them. Each iteration is a playful investigation of formal motifs and the sensuality of art-making materials.
JAY DEFEO / ALTER EGO includes groups of works from various series that exhibit her penchant for creating related works - twins, if you will. Some dopplegangers come from within the same series, others are from different periods or are made in radically different ways. Discrete works or diptychs mirror one another. Apparent opposites are complimentary. This exhibition focuses on the dialogue between works - and uses their similarities and differences to illuminate DeFeo's methodology and efforts to transcend the ordinary in search of the mystical.
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