JACQUELINE HUMPHRIES
Adjunct Instructor

"Untitled," oil on linen, 90" x 102", 2000
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Jacqueline Humphries is a painter who developed her visceral, gestural approach from the abstract expressionist movement of the 1960s. Borrowing strategies from the color-field painters such as dripping, pouring, overpainting, turning of the picture surface, the "non-relational" and the "all-over," she creates tension in her work between real and simulated spontaneity. Among her distinct bodies of work are the pattern paintings of the early 1990s, formed of paint spots and short brushstrokes; the red, poured paintings of the mid '90s; the horizon pictures whose brilliantly colored, horizontally-oriented gestures were accomplished using precisely placed masking-tape; and a series of black paintings.

Jacqueline Humphries has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad, including solo shows at Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, Pat Hearn Gallery and John Good Gallery, New York. She is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery in New York. Group exhibitions include "Selections from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts," Boston, (2004), "Against the Wall: Painting Against the Grid, Surface and Frame," Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2001), "Young Americans: American Art in the Saatchi Collection," Saatchi Gallery, London (1996), "Degrees of Abstraction: From Morris Louis to Robert Mapplethorpe," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1995), and "How It Is," Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York (1992). She has received numerous awards, including a Pollock-Krasner Grant (1999), a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (1995) and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award (1992).

The artist was born in New Orleans, studied at the Parsons School of Design and lives and works in New York. Humphries teaches Painting at the Cooper Union School of Art.

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