Barbara Durkee (1935–2022) was an American artist. She is known for being a co founder of the artist collective

USCO USCO was an American media art collective in the 1960s, founded by Gerd Stern, Michael Callahan, Steve Durkee, Judi Stern, and Barbara Durkee in New York. The name USCO is an acronym for Us Company or the Company of Us. The collective was most ...

(Us Company) in New York. She also co founded the spiritual community, the

Lama Foundation Lama Foundation is a spiritual community founded in 1967, located in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, seventeen miles north of Taos, New Mexico, Taos. The original Intentional community, commune was co-founded by Barbara D ...

in New Mexico in 1968. Durkee was born in 1935 in Los Angeles California. For a time she was married to fellow artist Stephen Durkee. She changed her name from Barbara Durkee to Asha Greer. She died on January 7, 2022, in Virginia. An example of her work with USCO is in the

National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of charge, the museum was privately established in ...

. She is also credited with working on the design and production of the original edition of the book, Be Here Now, produced by the Lama Foundation.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Durkee, Barbara 1935 births 2022 deaths Artists from Los Angeles 20th-century American women artists