Johnny DeFeo
And Just Like That, Spring has Sprung, 2023
acrylic on canvas
40h x 60w in
JDF005
Johnny DeFeo
Seraph, 2023
acrylic on linen
60h x 48w in
JDF004
Johnny DeFeo
Last Leafy Aspen on the Hillside, 2023
acrylic on linen
60h x 48w in
JDF003
Johnny DeFeo
Golden Room, 2023
acrylic on linen
56h x 72w in
JDF002
Johnny DeFeo
"Emma's Painting Spot," Window Through the Pines, Yoho Lake, 2023
acrylic on linen
68h x 48w in
JDF001
Johnny DeFeo
Breath of Spring, 2023
acrylic on canvas
40h x 60w in
JDF016
Johnny DeFeo
Sneaking Through the Last Ray of Winter Light, 2023
acrylic on panel
36h x 48w in
JDF006
Johnny DeFeo
Preparing for the Storm Does Not Always Prepare You for the Storm, 2022
acrylic on canvas
48h x 95.50w in
JDF007
Johnny DeFeo
Golden Room, Ohio Pass, October 1st, (plein air), 2022
acrylic on panel
16h x 20w in
JDF008
Johnny DeFeo
Coyote Watching a Passing Afternoon Storm, 2021
acrylic on panel
JDF010
Johnny DeFeo
Seraph, 2023
acrylic on panel
24h x 18w in
JDF011
Johnny DeFeo
Horse Cloud, 2022
acrylic on canvas
18h x 20w in
JDF012
Johnny DeFeo
A Swim at Emerald Lake, 2022
acrylic on canvas
18h x 20w in
JDF013
Johnny DeFeo
Spirit Tree, 2022
acrylic on canvas
18h x 20w in
JDF014
Johnny DeFeo
Yosemite Burn Zone, 2021
acrylic on canvas
25h x 34w in
JDF015
Johnny DeFeo (b. 1985) received an MFA in painting from the University of Colorado in 2017. Shortly after graduating he co-founded Adventure Painting, a traveling artist residency, alongside painter Aaron Zulpo. The Adventure Painting residency takes artists out of their studios and into America's most beautiful locations with the goal of expanding the visual lexicon of landscape painting. Adventure Painting was selected as an Armory Show off-site project in 2021, and featured in the New York Times.
DeFeo’s aesthetic is wild and playful, utilizing a dose of humor to create objects that illuminate the connections between beauty both quintessential and manufactured. His work consists primarily of landscape scenes, many of which include animals. Often, the perspective expressed in these scenes is that of the animal, shifting the subject away from a human vantage point and revealing the mysteries of the natural world. Imagining that the creatures inhabiting America’s wilderness could be storytellers through objects and images the way that humans can, these objects portray the natural world with a tender perspective, and with mystical and legendary qualities.
Johnny DeFeo | Standing Still in Fleeting Light
4.1.23 - 5.6.23
Johnny DeFeo | Standing Still in Fleeting Light
4.1.23 - 5.6.23
Johnny DeFeo | Standing Still in Fleeting Light
4.1.23 - 5.6.23
Johnny DeFeo | Standing Still in Fleeting Light
4.1.23 - 5.6.23
Johnny DeFeo | Standing Still in Fleeting Light
4.1.23 - 5.6.23
Johnny DeFeo | Standing Still in Fleeting Light
4.1.23 - 5.6.23
Johnny DeFeo | Standing Still in Fleeting Light
4.1.23 - 5.6.23
Johnny DeFeo | Standing Still in Fleeting Light
4.1.23 - 5.6.23
