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The paintings of Jacqueline Humphries (b. 1960, New Orleans) integrate modes of expression and communication. In dense, layered compositions that often conceal the process of their making, symbols, logos, emojis, and code mingle with brush marks, paint splatters, and drips, forging links between traditions of abstract painting and life cycles of technology. In her largest presentation of new and unseen work to date, Humphries aligns paintings with machines and emphasizes their unyielding capacity to reflect the drives and doubts of humans.
Humphries started painting in New York in the 1980s, a time in which attitudes around the medium were often dismissive, noting its associations with a bygone era of artmaking. Negotiating painting’s viability and purpose thus became central to the artist’s practice, which incorporates techniques of repetition, mimicry, and camouflage to generate potent, yet withholding, images. In their precise constructions, Humphries’s paintings enact sensory…
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The paintings of Jacqueline Humphries (b. 1960, New Orleans) integrate modes of expression and communication. In dense, layered compositions that often conceal the process of their making, symbols, logos, emojis, and code mingle with brush marks, paint splatters, and drips, forging links between traditions of abstract painting and life cycles of technology. In her largest presentation of new and unseen work to date, Humphries aligns paintings with machines and emphasizes their unyielding capacity to reflect the drives and doubts of humans.
Humphries started painting in New York in the 1980s, a time in which attitudes around the medium were often dismissive, noting its associations with a bygone era of artmaking. Negotiating painting’s viability and purpose thus became central to the artist’s practice, which incorporates techniques of repetition, mimicry, and camouflage to generate potent, yet withholding, images. In their precise constructions, Humphries’s paintings enact sensory…
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