David Humphrey
Poodle 2, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
54 x 44 inches
Cement Truck, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
96 x 80 inches
Scooter, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 72 inches
Viewer, 2018
Painted plaster with printed vinyl
80 x 33 x 40 inches (sculpture)
56 x 70 inches (printed vinyl)
Horsing Around, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 72 inches
Snooze, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
72 x 60 inches
Friends, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 72 inches
Overturned, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
44 x 54 inches
Flower, 2018
Painted plaster
82 x 38 x 20 inches
Legislator, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 48 inches
Out of the Muck, 2018
Acrylic on printed vinyl
72 x 60 inches
Burning, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
44 x 54 inches
Cocktail Horse, 2018
Acrylic on printed vinyl
60 x 80 inches
Horse and Rider, 2018
Painted plaster
68 x 27 x 22 inches
Fredericks & Freiser is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by David Humphrey. The artist will exhibit paintings and sculpture that continue his method of developing images from the public realm into imaginative hybrids of the social and eccentrically individual, the historic and vividly contemporary.
David Humphrey’s work celebrates the peculiar nesting within the familiar. The works in this exhibition are derived from the daily experience of sleeping, being with others, or walking around the neighborhood. Humphrey continues to mix various representational schema with improvisational abstraction to tell stories saturated with psycho-social content: vexed intimacy, homo-social horseplay, and imaginative projections crashing into the real.
This exhibition will be Humphrey’s fourth with Fredericks & Freiser, and marks another development of the hybrid form of representation he has been evolving since his first show at McKee Gallery in 1984. In the decades between then and now, Humphrey’s work has engaged with and contributed to the language of contemporary art: postmodernism, post-postmodernism, and the aporia of hyper-pluralism.
About the Artist
David Humphrey (b. 1955) has been the subject of 44 solo exhibitions including McKee Gallery, NY; Sikkema Jenkins, NY; Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami; and Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati. His work is in the collections of several museums and public collections including Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Saatchi Gallery, London. He is currently teaching in the MFA program of Columbia. He was awarded the Rome Prize in 2008.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Cristina de Miguel, April 25 through June 7, 2019
Frieze New York, May 1 through May 5, 2019
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