Contributed by Sharon Butler / In her ninth solo show at Greene Naftali, Jacqueline Humphries presents ten towering�canvases that grapple with our relationship to digital technology and the overwhelming nature of the “data surround.� For this new body of work, the artist has�translated�her earlier paintings into�ASCII, a character-based image encoding system developed in�the 1960s, and then, using laser stencils, applied the data to gesturally-painted�surfaces. Depending on the viewer�s distance to the canvas, the work�appears to be either a�dense, mesh-like computer image punctuated with big�splotches of paint, or, when closer, clotted�keystrokes and old-school, punctuation emoticons rendered in thickly applied paint. The result is�a witty�fusion of Cy Twombly’s histrionic�abstraction�and graphics from The Matrix.
�Jacqueline Humphries,� Greene Naftali, Chelsea,�New York, NY.�October 27 through December�16, 2017.
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Hi Sharon, I saw this show for the 2nd time last Sat. The painting are absolutely Brilliant, Stunning and Wonderful!!
I saw 4 terrific female painters that day: Lee krasner, Humphries,
Elizabeth Murray and Cecily Brown. A Great day in Chelsea.
Hi Sharon, I saw this show for the 2nd time last Sat. The painting are absolutely Brilliant, Stunning and Wonderful!!
I saw 4 terrific female painters that day: Lee krasner, Humphries,
Elizabeth Murray and Cecily Brown. A Great day in Chelsea.