In the context, it was usually pretty fresh, and I'd get really candid things out of the subjects. 'they know you from the context of where you're meeting them and how you've interacted. So I put it in their face and ask them, "What do you think of Jay McCafferty?" And they'd give me an answer, and the answer was usually more about them than me, which is obvious because nobody can know you as you are. I had a new piece of equipment, and people didn't know what it was. 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: McCafferty presented his first video exhibition, solo, in 1974 at the Long Beach Museum of Art. Īt 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. 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.
McCafferty was an associate professor of art and head of the art department at Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington.
In 1973 he earned an MFA degree from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) where he studied with classmates Charles Christopher Hill, John Knight, Richard Newton, and Alexis Smith. He attended Chapman College where he also studied on the World Campus Afloat before attending California State University, Los Angeles, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art. McCafferty was a student at the Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, California, for a brief time following high school.
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