“For eight years of her life, between 1958 and 1966, Jay DeFeo made her most well-known work, The Rose. With nearly two thousand pounds of paint layered onto the canvas, DeFeo thought of The Rose as a “marriage between painting and sculpture” and it is emblematic of her innovative approach to artmaking throughout her career.

This program, organized in collaboration with the Jay DeFeo Foundation, brings together a group of contemporary artists to reflect on Jay DeFeo’s work through the lens of her most extraordinary work. Speakers include Tishan Hsu, Justine Kurland, Park McArthur, and Erin Jane Nelson. Jane Panetta, Nancy and Fred Poses Curator and Director of the Collection, moderates the conversation.

Following the program, in-person attendees are invited to view The Whitney’s Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965 where The Rose is on view.”

Henry Shum

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*Revolution of Night*, 2020

Image courtesy of the artist and Empty Gallery.

*Dream Construction*, 2020

Image courtesy of the artist and Empty Gallery.

*Double of a Composition*, 2019

Image courtesy of the artist and Empty Gallery.

*Woman and Child*, 2019

Image courtesy of the artist and Empty Gallery.

*Men at Dinner Table*, 2018

Image courtesy of the artist and Empty Gallery.

Henry Shum (b.1998, Hong Kong) received his BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts London in 2020. Selected group exhibitions include presentations at Andrew Kreps Gallery; New York (2021), Candid Arts Trust Gallery (2020), Fitzrovia Gallery (2019), and Bones and Pearl Gallery (2018), in London. Shum currently lives and works in Hong Kong. His debut solo exhibition with Empty Gallery, Vortices, opened in Fall 2020. He is jointly represented by Empty Gallery and Andrew Kreps Gallery, and his first solo exhibition with Andrew Kreps Gallery is forthcoming in 2022.

Education

2020

BA Chelsea College of Arts, London

Solo Exhibition

2022

Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York (Upcoming)

2020

Vortices, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong

Group Exhibition

2021

Fifteen Painters, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

2020

Mankind is a God in Ruin, Candid Arts Trust Gallery, London

2019

I opened myself up to the gentle indifference of the world, Fitzrovia Gallery, London

2018

Blurred Boundaries, Bones and Pearl Gallery, London

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Around The Rose: Artists Reflect on Jay DeFeo

Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 7 pm EST
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Henry Shum

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