Jacqueline Humphries, One Cat, 2016, oil on linen, 100 x 111 inches
Jacqueline Humphries, One Cat, 2016, Detail
If you are in New York, don't miss the exhibition of new paintings by Jacqueline Humphries at Greene Naftali through December 16, 2017. Throughout her history, Humphries has made adventurous paintings that revel in process and materials, operating in a nebulous area between painterly sensuality and theoretical commentary. With these new paintings, she has outdone herself on both counts -- a group of ten very large canvases that are deeply luscious and conceptually brilliant. Working with laser cut screens of images from techno-pop culture -- emoji symbols and ASCII code -- she applies thick oil paint through stencils of tiny images that form blocks of irregular grids, or from a distance, supple textures. These elements overlay thick gestural fields of oil paint, creating amalgamated surfaces that appear mottled or aged. Up close, the recognition of the screened images becomes dominant, creating beautiful tensions as the viewer's perception changes with proximity. These are serious paintings with a wonderful sense of humor, and sly intelligence. They explore and embody the dilemmas of painting now, and emerge with beauty, optimism and authority.
Jacqueline Humphries, o://:hddd, 2017, oil on linen, 114 x 127 inches
Jacqueline Humphries, o://:hddd, 2017, Detail
Jacqueline Humphries, ???~, 2017, oil on linen, 100 x 111 inches
Jacqueline Humphries, ???~, 2017 Detail
Jacqueline Humphries, /%%%|, 2017, oil on linen, 114 x 127 inches
Jacqueline Humphries, /%%%|, 2017, Detail
Jacqueline Humphries, TQ555, 2017, oil on linen, 100 x 111 inches
Jacqueline Humphries, installation view, Greene Naftali, NYC
