David Humphrey: I'm Glad We Had This Conversation Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, NYC January 19 through February 25
I have often wondered if contemporary American artists accept the idea of a "point" in their work as being at all legitimizing. Preferring the physical presence of the work to be its own witness. Perhaps it's the legacy of the "semiotexters" in colleges and art academia. Identifying and discrediting as they go forcing 'fabulists! Like David Humphrey to dance clear of any obvious "read".
I've never been entirely convinced by Humphrey's work. I first saw pieces at Deven Golden Fine Art in '99. I always associated it with other artists of that stream who allowed different styles to co-exist on the canvas: like Amy Sillman and Michael St. John but for some reason, despite his deep inventiveness, I got the impression there was a skein of in-jokes there just beneath the surface. Creating a...
I have often wondered if contemporary American artists accept the idea of a "point" in their work as being at all legitimizing. Preferring the physical presence of the work to be its own witness. Perhaps it's the legacy of the "semiotexters" in colleges and art academia. Identifying and discrediting as they go forcing 'fabulists! Like David Humphrey to dance clear of any obvious "read".
I've never been entirely convinced by Humphrey's work. I first saw pieces at Deven Golden Fine Art in '99. I always associated it with other artists of that stream who allowed different styles to co-exist on the canvas: like Amy Sillman and Michael St. John but for some reason, despite his deep inventiveness, I got the impression there was a skein of in-jokes there just beneath the surface. Creating a...
- 1/24/2017
- by Millree Hughes
- www.culturecatch.com
Erin Smith lives and works in Australia. Her work has been exhibited in New York at solo shows at Amy Li and at a group show at Berry Campbell. She has also exhibited extensively in Australia. This year her work will be exhibited in two group shows in New York. In her own words: "I live in a small wooden house in Australia. I'm an over-excitable Australian — in love with New York City. I have a lot of energy, so if I'm not painting, I'm researching, experimenting, and chatting with other artists, mentors, and galleries."
Bradley Rubenstein: It was interesting to see your work in person (at Berry Campbell, NY) after having followed you online for a while. One gets the sense of the physicality of your painting through pictures, but in person they come across far more viscerally. One of the tensions you set up in your work...
Bradley Rubenstein: It was interesting to see your work in person (at Berry Campbell, NY) after having followed you online for a while. One gets the sense of the physicality of your painting through pictures, but in person they come across far more viscerally. One of the tensions you set up in your work...
- 3/14/2016
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
A Tangled Web: D. Dominick Lombardi, Curator Causey Contemporary Through January 29, 2015
The group show is one of those things that can either be done well or becomes an exhibition overwhelmed by variety -- or worse, a clutter of objects that don’t relate to each other without the benefit of lengthy wall texts. D. Dominick Lombardi, a veteran New York curator, has managed to pull together a visually interesting exhibition at Causey Contemporary, which was based on the simple premise of pairing the artists represented by the gallery with an outside artist of Lombardi’s choosing whom he felt complemented the work. What results is a show that is short on theory and long on visuality. He has turned the exhibit into a kind of dance, with one wondering (without looking at the cheat sheet) which artists are waltzing with each other.
To paraphrase the ninth-century Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu,...
The group show is one of those things that can either be done well or becomes an exhibition overwhelmed by variety -- or worse, a clutter of objects that don’t relate to each other without the benefit of lengthy wall texts. D. Dominick Lombardi, a veteran New York curator, has managed to pull together a visually interesting exhibition at Causey Contemporary, which was based on the simple premise of pairing the artists represented by the gallery with an outside artist of Lombardi’s choosing whom he felt complemented the work. What results is a show that is short on theory and long on visuality. He has turned the exhibit into a kind of dance, with one wondering (without looking at the cheat sheet) which artists are waltzing with each other.
To paraphrase the ninth-century Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu,...
- 1/13/2015
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
David Humphrey's new work can be seen in solo exhibitions at Fredricks & Freiser, New York, opening November 8, 2012, and at The American University Museum in Washington, DC, opening November 3, 2012.
Bradley Rubenstein: The last time I was at your studio, we were looking at an empty landscape in progress. You said, "This one is just waiting for a protagonist." You were thinking in terms of storytelling -- a part of the picture was the character, another was the set.
David Humphrey: Yes, sometimes the location scout gets ahead of the casting director, who still hasn't received the script. I like thinking of my painting process as an ill-coordinated collaboration, so that more than one role is present within the work, and there's the possibility of a disaster. But that's a different narrative than what appears in the picture, which tends to be relatively simple: owners hang out with their pets,...
Bradley Rubenstein: The last time I was at your studio, we were looking at an empty landscape in progress. You said, "This one is just waiting for a protagonist." You were thinking in terms of storytelling -- a part of the picture was the character, another was the set.
David Humphrey: Yes, sometimes the location scout gets ahead of the casting director, who still hasn't received the script. I like thinking of my painting process as an ill-coordinated collaboration, so that more than one role is present within the work, and there's the possibility of a disaster. But that's a different narrative than what appears in the picture, which tends to be relatively simple: owners hang out with their pets,...
- 10/7/2012
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Defrosted: A Life of Walt Disney
Billed in the gallery press release as a "concept album" exhibition jointly curated by David Humphrey and Adam Cvijanovic, Defrosted: a Life of Walt Disney brings together a group of artists whose works weave together various aspects of cartooning and pop culture to illustrate scenes from the life of the Mouse King, arranged in three parts through two gallery rooms.
A wall mural collaboratively painted by Cvijanovic and Humphrey presents the most straightforward narrative: Walt playing polo, the construction of the Matterhorn, etc. in a goofy, theatrical way reminiscent of 19th century cycloramas.
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Billed in the gallery press release as a "concept album" exhibition jointly curated by David Humphrey and Adam Cvijanovic, Defrosted: a Life of Walt Disney brings together a group of artists whose works weave together various aspects of cartooning and pop culture to illustrate scenes from the life of the Mouse King, arranged in three parts through two gallery rooms.
A wall mural collaboratively painted by Cvijanovic and Humphrey presents the most straightforward narrative: Walt playing polo, the construction of the Matterhorn, etc. in a goofy, theatrical way reminiscent of 19th century cycloramas.
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- 7/9/2010
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
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