(series of emojis) JH753
2023
Oil on linen
96 × 90”

Alpha4
2014
Oil on linen
90 x 100”

Born in New Orleans, Jacqueline Humphries (b. 1960) is an abstract painter who lives and works in New York. Over the course of her 30-year career, she has emerged as a singular force in contemporary art, an influential “artist’s artist” known for her signature abstract works in metallic and ultraviolet pigments. Her mark-making techniques serve her preference for the image to remain unresolved—she applies pigments one on top of another and then scrapes them away to reveal an enigmatic, layered picture plane. Describing her process, Humphries has said, “I start a painting by finishing it, then may proceed to unfinish it, make holes in it or undo it in various ways.”