Parker Gallery’s multimedia Nut Art survey intersperses new work with original pieces from the 1970s.
Roy De Forest
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Roy De Forest’s Search for Paradise Did Not Always Go Well
De Forest is part of a group of artists working in Northern California in the late 1950s who rejected New York and what they regarded as mainstream art and thinking. This group included Joan Brown, Jay De Feo, Bruce Conner, William T. Wiley, Jess, Wally Hedrick, and others.
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The Idiosyncratic Oeuvre of a 1970s Nut Artist
A retrospective of Roy De Forest, who described what he and his colleagues at UC Davis were making in the 1960s as “Nut Art,” is fun, innovative, and ambitious.