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Jeffrey Vallance (born 25 January 1955) is an American artist.

In 1978 Vallance purchased a frozen chicken from Ralph's grocery store, took it to the Los Angeles SPCA pet cemetery and had it buried.^[1] He documented this with receipts, photographs and a "Shroud of Blinky", all reproduced in the book Blinky The Friendly Hen, published in 1979. It was later reprinted in 1996 and there was a thirtieth anniversary edition in 2008. Blinky, and the idea of Blinky, has been a continuing motif in his art.

In 1995 he had a solo exhibition at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.^[2] His work is held in the permanent collection of the Laguna Art Museum.^[3]

References

External links

• Distinguished Alumni Page at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California, USA.
• Page at the Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, New York, USA
• Description of some of Vallance's works