San José Museum of Art

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Jess: To and From the Printed Page

  • A collage of animals (sheep, dog, birds) and human faces in grey scale from the Renaissance and modern time periods. There are faces and various body parts layered with a figure holding up one of the letters that spell out Paste – Ups by jess.

    Jess, Paste Ups by Jess, 1971. Collage, 22 x 28 inches. Odyssia Gallery, New York.

  • A collage of newspaper clippings with the headline “For you who like a hearty whisk”. Cut outs of facial parts are scattered around portraits—a business man, a child, and an older woman with eye glasses drawn around her eyes.

    Jess and Robert Duncan, Boob #1, 1952. Collage, 12 7/8 x 16 5/8 inches. Odyssia Gallery, New York

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    This exhibition featured approximately 50 works of art and 30 items of ephemera dating from 1951 to 1994, including collages, paintings, and sculptures, by Jess (1923–2004), a San Francisco–based visual artist who emerged from within the literary context of the Berkeley Renaissance and San Francisco’s Beat culture.

    Sponsored in part by the James Irvine Foundation, Jess: To and From the Printed Page was a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by Independent Curators International (iCI), New York. The exhibition, tour, and catalogue were made possible, in part, by a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support was provided by the iCI Exhibition Partners.


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