Jay Defeo; Whitney Museum of American Art.

You won't find Jay DeFeo, a San Francisco painter who became active in the early '50s, included in many anthologies of feminist art--at least not yet. But her interest in painting as an extension of her body, as something both radiant and abject, as both manageable and not, situates her in a singular position within her milieu.

She was included in Dorothy Miller's influential "Sixteen Americans" of 1959 at the Museum of Modern Art, yet her relative obscurity is confirmed by the Whitney's small, posthumous exhibition: Fifteen years after her death, this is her first New York ...

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