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Jacqueline Humphries
(New Orleans, Louisiana, 1960 -)
Untitled
Date2017
MediumSilkscreen
DimensionsUnframed: 22 x 24 3/4 in. (55.9 x 62.9 cm)
Credit LineCenter for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
CopyrightCourtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York.
Object numberCCS2018.6.2
ClassificationsMultiple
Not on view
DescriptionWorking with artists who were associated with Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co., CCS Bard and Art+Culture Projects have partnered to present specially commissioned limited editions to support The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004). Jacqueline Humphries is a master painter, and no technique or combination of techniques, is safe from her steady utilization. In the past, major bodies of her work have employed heavy usage of reflective silver paint, while other paintings utilizing fluorescent pigments have been exhibited illuminated entirely by black light (as they were created in the studio.) With this silkscreen, Humphries references the syntax of painting with a wide, rigid support within which paint or gesso partially prepares a surface - and leaves portions notably vacant. A small face - slightly sinister, but with the emoji-cuteness we've become accustomed to - sits atop and begs for our attention.
