Jacqueline Humphries : jH Omega 1:)
Jacqueline Humphries : jHΩ1:)

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Humphries, Jacqueline, 1960- artist.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Godfrey, Mark (Mark Benjamin), curator.

Marcus, Daniel (Art historian), curator.

Wexner Center for the Arts, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humphries, Jacqueline, 1960---Exhibitions.

Humphries, Jacqueline.

Painting, Abstract--20th century--Exhibitions.

Painting, Abstract.

Humphries, Jacqueline, 1960-.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

282 pages : illustrations ; 27 x 26 cm + 1 folded sheet

Other Title:

Jacqueline Humphries : jH Omega One Smiley Face

Jacqueline Humphries : jH Omega 1 Smiley Face

Place of Publication:

New York : Gregory R. Miller & Company, [2022]

Summary:

"The exhibition and its accompanying catalog highlight the importance of digital communications and online culture in Humphries's ever-changing practice. Incorporating the QWERTY keyboard as a means of generating abstract forms, the artist's recent paintings integrate emoticons, emojis, CAPTCHAs and ASCII text as layers of mark-making in dense and vivid works. Other featured works explore the visual language of corporate logos; black light paintings presented in darkened spaces; a group of protest paintings that subtly channel political dissent; and thickly painted renderings of white noise, in which digital content receives viscerally material application. Across each body of work, Humphries reaffirms her ongoing commitment to abstract painting, while bringing a seemingly traditional form into dialogue with the issues and interfaces that shape contemporary life. The book features essays by exhibition curator Mark Godfrey, Courtney J. Martin, Jenny Nachtigall and former Wexner Center Director Johanna Burton. Designed by Studio Markus Weisbeck, this extensively illustrated monograph offers an in-depth view of Humphries's continued evolution in painting"-- Provided by publisher.

Published on the occasion of Jacqueline Humphries' (born 1960) new exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts, this major catalog surveys the artist's work from the past seven years, including dozens of new paintings and her largest multipanel installations to date.0Incorporating the QWERTY keyboard as a means of generating abstract forms, Humphries' recent paintings integrate emoticons, emoji, CAPTCHAs and ASCII text as layers of mark-making in dense and vivid works. Other new works explore the visual language of corporate logos; black light paintings presented in darkened space; and a selection of protest sign paintings that invoke the uprisings that shape our current political landscape. The title is a CAPTCHA code invented by Humphries that brings together her initials, the last Greek letter in its alphabet, omega, which she uses to refer to the idea of the "end" of painting and her continuing refusal of this end, the number 1, which stands for the idea of a beginning, and her favorite emoticon, :). The book features essays by exhibition curator Mark Godfrey, Courtney J. Martin, Jenny Nachtigall and former Wexner Center Director Johanna Burton. Designed by Studio Markus Weisbeck, this extensively illustrated monograph offers an up-close view of Humphries? continued evolution in painting. Exhibition: Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA (18.09.2021 - 02.01.2022).

Notes:

Guest curator: Mark Godfrey, with assistance from Daniel Marcus, Associate Curator of Exhibitions

Non-Latin script record

Includes CV of artist (pages 277-282)

Includes supplement "The Omega Machine" which includes an interview between the artist, Felix Bernstein, and Absinthe Omega (Gabe Rubin).

Includes bibliographic references.

Published on the occasion of exhibition at Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, September 18, 2021 - January 2, 2022.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781941366370

1941366376

OCLC:

1344510295