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.
This public program was made possible with support from Dirk Denison and David Salkin.