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Born 1960 New Orleans, Louisiana. Known for: Non objective, fluorescent, black light painting.
‘The Thrilling Feeling of Creating Light’: Jacqueline Humphries on Her Recent Work, 10/2017, from “Art of the City” is a weekly column by ARTnews co-executive editor Andrew Russeth. In 2005 a fire... Read full biography
‘The Thrilling Feeling of Creating Light’: Jacqueline Humphries on Her Recent Work, 10/2017, from “Art of the City” is a weekly column by ARTnews co-executive editor Andrew Russeth. In 2005 a fire broke out in Jacqueline Humphries’s studio in Manhattan’s Financial District. “You know how they say,... Read full biography
‘The Thrilling Feeling of Creating Light’: Jacqueline Humphries on Her Recent Work, 10/2017, from “Art of the City” is a weekly column by ARTnews co-executive editor Andrew Russeth. In 2005 a fire broke out in Jacqueline Humphries’s studio in Manhattan’s Financial District. “You know how they say, about a painter, that the best thing that could happen is a fire in their studio?” Humphries asked me one morning last summer. “That was really true for me at the time. I was working on a bunch of... Read full biography
‘The Thrilling Feeling of Creating Light’: Jacqueline Humphries on Her Recent Work, 10/2017, from “Art of the City” is a weekly column by ARTnews co-executive editor Andrew Russeth. In 2005 a fire broke out in Jacqueline Humphries’s studio in Manhattan’s Financial District. “You know how they say, about a painter, that the best thing that could happen is a fire in their studio?” Humphries asked me one morning last summer. “That was really true for me at the time. I was working on a bunch of stalled things. It was the best thing possible.”. After the fire, Humphries produced the first of her scintillating “black light” paintings, which radiate wild, ghostly neon colors in dark rooms under ultraviolet light—not a technique that one sees... Read full biography
‘The Thrilling Feeling of Creating Light’: Jacqueline Humphries on Her Recent Work, 10/2017, from “Art of the City” is a weekly column by ARTnews co-executive editor Andrew Russeth. In 2005 a fire broke out in Jacqueline Humphries’s studio in Manhattan’s Financial District. “You know how they say, about a painter, that the best thing that could happen is a fire in their studio?” Humphries asked me one morning last summer. “That was really true for me at the time. I was working on a bunch of stalled things. It was the best thing possible.”. After the fire, Humphries produced the first of her scintillating “black light” paintings, which radiate wild, ghostly neon colors in dark rooms under ultraviolet light—not a technique that one sees contemporary artists using very often. “Fluorescent colors are very powerful, yet they were so bounded by these typical asso... Read full biography
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‘The Thrilling Feeling of Creating Light’: Jacqueline Humphries on Her Recent Work, 10/2017, from “Art of the City” is a weekly column by ARTnews co-executive editor Andrew Russeth.
In 2005 a fire broke out in Jacqueline Humphries’s studio in Manhattan’s Financial District. “You know how they say, about a painter, that the best thing that could happen is a fire in their studio?” Humphries asked me one morning last summer. “That was really true for me at the time. I was working on a bunch of stalled things. It was the best thing possible.”
After the fire, Humphries produced the first of her scintillating “black light” paintings, which radiate wild, ghostly neon colors in dark rooms under ultraviolet light—not a tec...But wait, there's more...
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