Ralph Humphrey Exhibition
Garth Greenan Gallery
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Gary Snyder Gallery announces Ralph Humphrey, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper at 529 West 20th Street. Opening on September 13, 2012, the exhibition is Humphrey's first in a New York gallery since 1998. Fifteen of the artist's thickly impastoed abstract paintings will be on view, as well as a selection of works on paper. A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition, with contributions from Klaus Kertess, David Pagel, and Stephen Westfall. In addition, the catalogue will include excerpts from Humphrey's sketchbooks and journals—none of which have ever been published previously.
The exhibition and its accompanying publication provide a detailed view of the artist's work from 1973 to 1984—hulking masses of casein and modeling paste in a palette of intense colors. Works in the exhibition such as Untitled (1973), Christmas Story (1979–1980), and Bridge (1983–1984) demonstrate Humphrey's unique ability to create surfaces that are at once immediate yet boundless in depth. Icons of Postminimalism, these paintings transform the traditional relationship between viewer and object; their large scale and density literally force viewers into the objects' space.
"Space coming forward is more of a confronting, more like an experience," wrote Humphrey, "but an experience that calls attention to its own time. . . . I find that when the painting starts coming back at me I know I’m going to get to the observer."
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from September 13, 2012 to October 27, 2012
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Extended to the 27th.