Jay McCafferty (born February 21, 1948) is a California painter, video
artist, and filmmaker.McCafferty was a student at the Los Angeles
Harbor College, Wilmington, California, for a brief time following
high school. He attended Chapman College where he also studied on the
World Campus Afloat before attending California State University at
Los Angeles, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art. In 1973
he earned an MFA degree from the University of California at Irvine
(UCI) where he studied with classmates Charles Christopher Hill, John
Knight, Richard Newton, and Alexis Smith.McCafferty is an associate
professor of art and head of the art department at Los Angeles Harbor
College, Wilmington. He has also worked as a lifeguard for the County
of Los Angeles part-time from 1966 through retirement in 1996; he
worked at Southern California beaches from Ventura County to San
Pedro, California.At UCI McCafferty studied with artists, such as
Craig Kauffman, Ed Moses and Tony DeLap and was influenced by figures
such as Phil Leider, founder of ArtForum magazine. McCafferty
presented his first video exhibition, solo, in 1974 at the Long Beach
Museum of Art. It was described as "a suite of truly humorous and
poetic single-channel videos." During this period, he began filming
Self Portrait, Every Year (1972 - ongoing), a project that
"encompasses thirty-five years of daily grooming compiled into a
moving self-portrait that traces the artist through time." At about
the same time, McCafferty started Autobiography, which he described to
Glenn Phillips, curator of the Getty Research Institute:
artist, and filmmaker.McCafferty was a student at the Los Angeles
Harbor College, Wilmington, California, for a brief time following
high school. He attended Chapman College where he also studied on the
World Campus Afloat before attending California State University at
Los Angeles, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art. In 1973
he earned an MFA degree from the University of California at Irvine
(UCI) where he studied with classmates Charles Christopher Hill, John
Knight, Richard Newton, and Alexis Smith.McCafferty is an associate
professor of art and head of the art department at Los Angeles Harbor
College, Wilmington. He has also worked as a lifeguard for the County
of Los Angeles part-time from 1966 through retirement in 1996; he
worked at Southern California beaches from Ventura County to San
Pedro, California.At UCI McCafferty studied with artists, such as
Craig Kauffman, Ed Moses and Tony DeLap and was influenced by figures
such as Phil Leider, founder of ArtForum magazine. McCafferty
presented his first video exhibition, solo, in 1974 at the Long Beach
Museum of Art. It was described as "a suite of truly humorous and
poetic single-channel videos." During this period, he began filming
Self Portrait, Every Year (1972 - ongoing), a project that
"encompasses thirty-five years of daily grooming compiled into a
moving self-portrait that traces the artist through time." At about
the same time, McCafferty started Autobiography, which he described to
Glenn Phillips, curator of the Getty Research Institute:
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