David Humphrey Art
American, b. 1955
David Humphrey (born August 30, 1955) is an American painter, art critic, and sculptor associated with the postmodern turn in painting that began in the late 1970s. He is best known for his playful, cartoonish, puzzling paintings, which blend figuration and abstraction and create "allegories" about the medium of painting itself. Humphrey holds a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art (1977) and a MA from New York University (1980), where he studied with film critic Annette Michelson; he also attended the New York Studio School from 1996 – 1997. He has been the recipient of many awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002, the Rome Prize in 2008, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award in 2011. He was born in Augsburg Germany and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He lives and works in New York City. Though his paintings, works on paper, and sculptures defy categorization, David Humphrey emerged as an artist in the late 1970s along with Postmodernism, an approach that continues to inform his heterogeneous compositions, visual pastiches that, in his words, “erase the breaks” between divergent styles. As he explains: “I suppose that the dynamic of relationship—the psychology of bonding, lovemaking, attachment, and so on—has kept me interested for a long time. I come back to it as a way to thicken the grammar of picture making.” In his paintings, this grammar includes gestural abstraction, cartoonish figuration, Pop Art, Surrealism, and Expressionism. His vibrant compositions feature human figures, narrative vignettes, animals, and objects interwoven into abstract passages. They read as sexually and psychologically charged dreamscapes, through which Humphrey breaks down boundaries to explore our relationships with each other and the world.to
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Trophy, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, unique signed painting w/provenance
By David Humphrey
Located in New York, NY
David Humphrey
Trophy (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago), 1983
Oil on Canvas painting
Signed Twice: Hand signed and dated verso, also artist has signed his name and written his ho...
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1980s Contemporary David Humphrey Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Impressionist Painting Nude Bathers by David Humphrey
By David Humphrey
Located in Rochester, NY
Nude bathers, fine early 20th century impressionist painting by David Humphrey (American 1872-1950.) Pastel on paper.
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Probing
By David Humphrey
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The acclaimed David Humphrey (born 1955) has been exhibiting his work internationally since the 1980s when he first burst upon the New York art scene. His compositions often feature ...
Category
1980s Modern David Humphrey Art
Materials
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Remembering Florida. Unique signed abstract mixed media painting on paper Framed
By David Humphrey
Located in New York, NY
David Humphrey
Remembering Florida, 1992
Oil Stick, Enamel on Handmade Paper (Contemporary Art Center of Cincinnati label verso of frame)
Signed on the back
29 × 43 1/2 × 1 inches
Unframed
This is an abstract, mixed media work by David Humphrey. It has a "Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati" label on the verso.
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Category
1990s Contemporary David Humphrey Art
Materials
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Abstract Expressionist work on paper, unique, signed by renowned American artist
By David Humphrey
Located in New York, NY
David Humphrey
Untitled, 2015
Acrylic on paper
Hand signed and dated 2015 on the lower left front
11 × 8 1/2 inches
Unframed
This original painting was created by David Humphrey in 2...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist David Humphrey Art
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Untitled Monotype of two cats (Two Kitties), Unique signed print, David Humphrey
By David Humphrey
Located in New York, NY
David Humphrey
Two Kitties, 2003
Monotype
Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower right front
20 × 31 1/2 inches
Unframed
Published by, and acquired from Tamarind Institute ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary David Humphrey Art
Materials
Monotype
Lies III (unique abstract signed work) with original David McKee Gallery label
By David Humphrey
Located in New York, NY
DAVID HUMPHREY
Lies III (Framed with David McKee Gallery Label), 1986
Monotype on wove paper
Unique
signed and dated in graphite on the recto
Frame included
Measurements:
29 1/2 x 21...
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1980s Abstract David Humphrey Art
Materials
Monotype
Pickpocket
By David Humphrey
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: David Humphrey, American (1955 - )
Title: Pickpocket
Year: 1985
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed verso
Size: 84 in. x 66 in. (213.36 cm x 167.64 cm)
Category
1980s Contemporary David Humphrey Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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