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Art Basel Hong Kong

ART BASEL HONG KONG

Greene Naftali
Booth 3D15 28–30 March 2024
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Greene Naftali will present a solo booth of new work by Jacqueline Humphries at this year’s edition of Art Basel Hong Kong. Throughout her career Humphries has adapted to—and subverted—painting’s formal and discursive conditions, often with reference to both art history and cutting-edge technological formats. While her early work probes the legacy of Abstract Expressionism, Humphries has extended these strategies into the present, reimagining her analog medium in digital terms, as a screen or interface. Translating painted works into bit-mapped data and back into hand-crafted art with the use of laser-cut stencils and oils mixed to varying thickness, Humphries’s work displays a complex, and often ambiguous, combination of machine-tooled patterning and human gesture.

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Jacqueline Humphries lives and works in New York. Her work was included in the 59th Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams, in 2022, and was the subject of a major survey at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, in 2021. Other recent solo shows include Greene Naftali, New York (2022–23, 2017); Dia Art Foundation, The Dan Flavin Art Institute, Bridgehampton, New York (2019); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2015); and Contemporary Art Center New Orleans (2015). Significant group shows include those held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2022); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2019); Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2019, 2015); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2016); Tate Modern (2015); and the 2014 Whitney Biennial, among others.

Humphries’s work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; de Young Museum, San Francisco; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon; and Museum Brandhorst, Munich, among others.

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By the mid-1980s painting had been declared “dead” several times over. But for the contemporary painter Jacqueline Humphries, the medium became a “rogue practice”; however risky, it has remained her foundation. “Painting can adapt to anything,” she notes. Throughout her career Humphries has thus adapted to—and subverted—painting’s formal and discursive conditions, often with reference to both art history and cutting-edge technological formats. Early canvases, such as those in her 1995 Greene Naftali show (the gallery’s first solo presentation), probe the legacy of Abstract Expressionism, envisioning that movement’s chaotic drips not as destructive but constructive—as a sort of code which Humphries manipulates to form the basis of her own works. Balancing conceptual maneuvers and striking opticality in the ample space of her canvases, Humphries, like her peers Laura Owens and Charline von Heyl, betrays “a profound knowledge of how to make, and fake, marks on canvas,” writes Mark Godfrey—“how to navigate the histories and associations of those marks and control what impact they might have on viewers.”

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