Jacqueline Humphries at Greene Naftali

Jacqueline Humphries continues to demonstrate her ability to blur the multi-dimensional realities of the physical and digital worlds that she inhabits. Exhibiting ten large-scale paintings, she constructs a lexicon that is constantly shifting. In “:-/” emoticons seem to form a layer above the electric green canvas, formed from oil paint, a material with a rich and storied legacy. In “Xx” and “: )” Humphries humorously reconciles the disparate characteristics of both her form and content, with the permanence of the painted surface on the one hand and the constantly changing signs that characterize the digital age on the other, creating a perpetual balancing act.