Michael McClure on Jay DeFeo’s The Rose
January 9, 2013 | ByFiled under: 151 3rd
Come see The Rose in person — Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective, closes Feb. 3.
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Thank you, Suzanne. This has always been one of my favorite tributes to Jay.
January 9th, 2013 at 9:46 amYou’re welcome, Peter! It is really lovely and I was so delighted to discover it. Do you remember where and when the video was made?
January 9th, 2013 at 10:34 amAt a tribute to Jay DeFeo organized at the Art Institute, just after its conservation in 1995, when the painting was getting ready to be shipped out to the Whitney for its unveiling in the exhibition “The Beat Era.”
BTW, there’s time-lapse footage of the conservation of “The Rose,” and shots of it being hauled out the window of SFAI and onto a flatbed truck–this time not by Bekins but by Scott Atthowe and his crew–here: http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/multimedia/videos/308.
January 9th, 2013 at 11:08 amThe footage of Michael McClure, btw, is by Kush, of Cloud House Poetry Archive. And if people want to see more archival materials about Jay, they can check out our online feature here: http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/multimedia/interactive_features/8#
Just beware: it’s in that archaic encoding known as Flash!
January 9th, 2013 at 11:12 am