05/29/2026
Featured in the May 2026 issue of Artforum: Suzanne Hudson reviews Jay DeFeo ‘Space Exploration’, which ran at Marc Selwyn Fine Art from January 17 - March 21, 2026.
“All nebulae and voids, forms torquing as in response to forces felt but unseen, the pieces collected here evidenced the ways in which DeFeo so improbably made shape into space. What was remarkable was how she performed this trick while simultaneously puncturing the pictorial illusion that it might otherwise leave unperturbed. Thick with marks, or kept naked apart from some central defining incident, these were evidently laboriously made works, forthrightly built and not conjured.”
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Pictured: Jay DeFeo, ‘Reflections of Africa I’, 1988, oil on linen, 24 × 20″. From the series “Reflections of Africa,” 1988–89. © 2026 The Jay DeFeo Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.