NYAB Event - Ryan Humphrey "All or Nothing"

Ryan Humphrey "All or Nothing"

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At DCKT Contemporary
Media: Painting

The symbolism of fearlessness, triumphant rebirth and its process is evident throughout the exhibition. The works utilize low-brow materials commonplace during HUMPHREY’s youth in blue-collar rural Ohio combined with more traditional artistic media.

In three large mixed media works (Back in Black, Now She’s Black, and Burst into Light) HUMPHREY expropriates the original hood designs of late 1970s Pontiac Trans Am muscle cars. He creates mixed-media paintings incorporating the symbolism of the mythical phoenix resurrecting itself. In Burst into Light, the centralized figure of the fire-breathing bird is attached to a large panel that fuses a variety of disparate materials including: beer bottle caps, Nascar pop rivets, automobile sheet metal, custom pinstriping, printed fabric and airbrush work.

[Ryan Humphrey "Burst Into Light" (2008) acrylic paint, enamel paint, bottle caps, rivets, 1980 Turbo Trans Am hood, clear coat, printed fabric, thread, Belgian linen on wood panel 60 x 60 in.]