Johnny DeFeo
Serenity Now, 2024
acrylic on panel
67h x 46w in
JDF046
Johnny DeFeo
eternal return, 2024
acrylic on panel
46h x 69w in
JDF037
Johnny DeFeo
Cozy Cabin Crested Butte, with Homer Fox Hunt and How the Stars Are Made, 2024
acrylic on linen
60h x 40w in
JDF025
Johnny DeFeo
Wild America, 2024
acrylic on panel
30h x 40w in
JDF028
Johnny DeFeo
A Hunting Lodge, 2024
acrylic on canvas
47h x 67w in
JDF031
Johnny DeFeo
Albuquerque Cabela’s, 2024
acrylic on linen
20h x 16w in
JDF026
Johnny DeFeo
Sequestered in the Secret Secret Valley, 2024
acrylic on panel
36h x 48w in
JDF044
Johnny DeFeo
The Sun Sets on the Old Vermillion Trail (Will Rusty Plinkett Ride Again?), 2024
acrylic on linen
40h x 35w in
JDF023
Johnny DeFeo
Hunt or Be Hunted, 2024
acrylic on panel
29h x 47w in
JDF045
Johnny DeFeo
title forthcoming-(TwoBears), 2024
acrylic on linen
30h x 40w in
JDF029
Johnny DeFeo
heads 1, 2024
acrylic on panel
30h x 24w in
JDF043
Johnny DeFeo
Field and Stream Wolves and Bear, 2024
acrylic on panel
12h x 16w in
JDF042
Johnny DeFeo
Rod and Gun Club Everglades, 2024
acrylic on panel
12h x 16w in
JDF041
Johnny DeFeo
One Corner of Heaven, 2024
acrylic on canvas
30h x 24w in
JDF040
Johnny DeFeo
Midday Heat, 2024
acrylic on panel
11h x 14w in
JDF039
Johnny DeFeo
King Ropes Museum, 2024
acrylic on panel
18h x 14w in
JDF038
Johnny DeFeo
Traders Rendezvous 10.4, 2024
acrylic on panel
14h x 18w in
JDF036
Johnny DeFeo
In Each of Us There Are Two Wolves, 2024
acrylic on panel
30h x 24w in
JDF035
Johnny DeFeo
Early Morning on Ohio Pass, 2024
acrylic on panel
18h x 14w in
JDF034
Johnny DeFeo
Traders Rendezvous 2, 2024
acrylic on panel
14h x 11w in
JDF033
Johnny DeFeo
Bass Pro Shop Thornton Colorado, 2024
acrylic on panel
16h x 12w in
JDF032
Johnny DeFeo
Sometimes you meet someone even in the dim dusk, 2024
acrylic on canvas
12h x 16w in
JDF030
Johnny DeFeo
Sunrise with Waxing Crescent, July 16, 1965, 2022
acrylic on canvas
24h x 36w in
JDF021
Johnny DeFeo
Rude Awakening, 2022
acrylic on canvas
30h x 24w in
JDF022
Johnny DeFeo
Kicking Up Dust, 2023
acrylic on canvas
29.50h x 54w in
JDF019
Johnny DeFeo
Like a Shooting Star Across the Great Divide, 2023
acrylic on canvas
40h x 60w in
JDF020
Johnny DeFeo
Sneaking Through the Last Ray of Winter Light, 2023
acrylic on panel
36h x 48w in
JDF006
Johnny DeFeo
"Emma's Painting Spot," Window Through the Pines, Yoho Lake, 2023
acrylic on linen
68h x 48w in
JDF001
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
Coyote Watching a Passing Afternoon Storm, 2021
acrylic on panel
JDF010
Johnny DeFeo b. 1985 — Johnny DeFeo’s work emerges out of his own intimate relationship with nature. DeFeo has painted en plein air since he was a teenager, taking his easel and paints out into the landscape for years. His artworks reflect this idea, as his canvases act as extensions of the environment. 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. This idea is reflected in his traveling artist residency, Adventure Painting, which pulls artists directly into the landscapes they are painting.
At times, DeFeo’s work is not simply rendering a landscape, instead he creates these fantastical scenes in a loose style. In his works, nature and the home unite. The landscape becomes another wall to the family home — as he beckons us into this ideal and mystical world where canyons and mountains are always accessible. He includes animals throughout these scenes, some of which are taxidermy — creating this dichotomy between the natural world and us. DeFeo will also find his way into Cabela’s, where he will paint his living and taxidermized animals from actual taxidermy. In this way, DeFeo’s work holds multitudes, combining our desire for the outdoors with the human action against it.
Johnny DeFeo was born in Berlin, Connecticut in 1985. He received his BFA from Western State Colorado University and his MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Colorado. After receiving his MFA, DeFeo co-founded Adventure Painting, a traveling artist residency, which worked to incorporate America’s most beautiful locations into a more complete lexicon of landscape painting. DeFeo’s work was successful, as Adventure Painting was selected as an Armory Show off-site project in 2021 and featured in the New York Times. With over seventeen shows in the last five years, DeFeo’s landscapes have found their ways into revered collections such as Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Prudential Investments, Aetna Insurance Company, City of Hartford, Connecticut, the New Britain Museum of American Art, and University of Colorado Art Collection.
Johnny DeFeo, Wild America
October 19 - November 30, 2024
Johnny DeFeo, Wild America
October 19 - November 30, 2024
Johnny DeFeo, Wild America
October 19 - November 30, 2024
Johnny DeFeo, Wild America
October 19 - November 30, 2024
Johnny DeFeo, Wild America
October 19 - November 30, 2024
Johnny DeFeo | Standing Still in Fleeting Light
April 1 - May 6, 2023
Johnny DeFeo | Standing Still in Fleeting Light
April 1 - May 6, 2023
Johnny DeFeo | Standing Still in Fleeting Light
April 1 - May 6, 2023
Johnny DeFeo | Standing Still in Fleeting Light
April 1 - May 6, 2023
