Roy De Forest bio

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roy de forest
1930-2007

Born in North Platte, Nebraska ,1930
Studied at San Francisco State College (M.A.) and the California School of Fine Arts
Lived and worked in San Francisco, California

Roy De Forest, one of the preeminent artists of the Bay Area, constructs exciting images from his private mythology about journeys taken through fanciful landscapes that are inhabited by questing travelers and canine creatures.

De Forest invites the viewer to create a personal narrative from his aggregations of dogs, farm animals, and an assorted cast of characters set amidst a cacophony of brightly colored and patterned forms.

Selected recent exhibitions
2006   Recent Paintings, Brain Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California
          Sit Down! Artist Bench Invitational, Montalvo Gallery, Saratoga, Florida
2005 New Paintings, George Adams Gallery, New York, New York
2003   Three Masters: Roy De Forest, Jack Earl, Richard Shaw, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
            New Works on Paper,  Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge
2004 Recent Paintings, IMAGO Galleries, Palm Desert
2002 A Slow Time in Arcadia: Roy De Forest and William T. Wiley
1960-2002, George Adams Gallery, New York, New York
LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Selected public collections
The Art Institute of Chicago
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, New York
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Stanford Museum of Art, Palo Alto, California
University Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut