is one of several artists who is (posthumously) featured in Women and The Void: Abstract Expressionism on Paper at Huxley-Parlour Gallery. Like Michael and Bingo, Mary Joan Defoe used a male-gendered nickname during the male-dominated era in which she began making work.

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  1. […] “important” AbEx painters were all male. Perle’s contribution is noted and like Jay she is (posthumously) included in Women and the […]

  2. […] notes that Jay may be the best known Bay Area woman artist who worked in abstraction, but she was far from […]

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