Mid-career artist Jacqueline
Humphries’ new paintings extends a mercurial streak in American Abstraction. Her
seventh exhibition with Greene Naftali displays her now trademark use of
silver-metallic paint that she has spread and abraded over warmer, fluorescent
colors that then peak out from their metal protective sheen. Humphries’
paintings, visually coherent, structurally flat and chromatically reduced,
hybridize abstraction’s possibilities through their use of color and landscape
elements that would seemingly be mutually exclusive. Resembling an
urbanized pewter version of Monet’s Nymphéas, Humphries’ paintings are a 21st century pictorial American
pastoral. Largely scaled without individual titles, the paintings are not organized
around a central motif but instead loose lines, smudges and wipes allow the
composition to cohere. Splayed outwards, Humphries centripetal compositions
reference nature in their all over, structurally organic chemistry. Lacking
clear chromatic referents to nature, Humphries’ paintings instead operate independently
of a clear representational imperative. Stark, bold and clear, Humphries' paintings
sponsor the experience of the changeable conditions of nature, and perception itself.
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Jacqueline Humphries
Untitled
2012
Oil on Canvas
90 x 96 inches
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Jacqueline Humphries
Untitled
2012
Oil on Canvas
90 x 96 inches
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Jacqueline Humphries
Test
2012
Oil on Canvas
90 x 96 inches
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Jacqueline Humphries
Untitled
2012
Oil on Canvas
90 x 96 inches
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I love that piece! I finally figured out that I need that kind of painting in my living room to add some life to it. I already have the right furniture, now all I need is the oil on canvas. Thank you so much for sharing!
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