January 12 – March 8, 2024
JACQUELINE HUMPHRIES
Crown Point Press
In Person Viewing:
20 Hawthorne St. San Francisco, CA 94105
Online Viewing:
https://crownpoint.com/exhibition/jacqueline-humphries-2
Crown Point Press announces Jacqueline Humphries, an exhibition of new prints by the New York- based artist. Humphries created seven color etchings during her second Crown Point project in October 2023. The new prints are each nearly square, with a dot matrix background and a central splatter shape. Humphries’ choice of color in each print is uniquely subtle and varied. Layered hues vibrate against the staccato of dotted backgrounds and gestural foregrounds.
“The central image in these prints originates from a series of paintings I made in 2023. I was fascinated by the public actions of the Just Stop Oil activists, who protested climate change policy by throwing and spraying these paint pours and splatters that resembled the gestures of paintings I made earlier in my career. I thought if I pre-vandalize my paintings, maybe this would protect them from future vandals… or even provoke further attention to painting within the social media landscape in an unexpected way, revealing how social tensions coalesce around the contemplation of art.”—Jacqueline Humphries
Accompanying the new etchings in the exhibition are the ten prints Humphries created during her first residency at Crown Point Press in the fall of 2016. These prints incorporate grids, dot patterns, emojis, emoticons (imagery created with the use of handmade stencils) that are layered over gestural abstraction.
Jacqueline Humphries was born in 1960 in New Orleans. She has lived and worked in New York since the 1980s. In 2022, her work was included in the 59th Venice Biennale’s presentation, The Milk of Dreams, and in the same year her work was the subject of The Wexner Center for the Arts exhibition, Jacqueline Humphries: jHΩ1:) which was accompanied by an exhibition catalog. Jacqueline Humphries is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery, New York and the Modern Art Institute, London.
