An einer Wand lehnt ein Schild, das mit Streifen in roter Farbe bemalt ist.

Jacqueline Humphries

Untitled

Year2008
MaterialOil on wood
Dimensions76.2 x 152.4 cm
Year of acquisition2014
Inventory numberUAB 887
On viewGround floor
Copyright© Courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York

More about the artwork

For an exhibition in her birthplace and hometown of New Orleans, Jacqueline Humphries painted some protest signs in 2008. Only there is nothing written on them—instead of demands, accusations, or mockery, they contain abstract compositions. At first glance, there could hardly be a greater contrast between everyday political demands and the poetry of gestural markings. Yet Humphries’s signs recall the tradition of inner turmoil that has inspired and accompanied expressive painting since the beginning of the last century.