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…
My life is like some sort of fairy story sometimes,” Sean Scully said, sitting in a paint-covered chair in his Chelsea studio. “I can’t really believe it.” He was in a buoyant mood, showing…
Most of the Long Island homes that sport expansive lawns dotted with sculpture and interiors packed with auction-worthy objects are the private property of the mega-rich. Most of them are in the Hampt…
Art in America's critics write their way through the best of 2012. From 1997 to 2007 Raphael Rubinstein was a senior editor at A.i.A.,and he continues a a contributing editor. Rubinstein is…
In a 2009 interview with Cecily Brown in Bomb magazine, Jacqueline Humphries articulated her aspirations: "Postmodernism is supposed to be all about appropriation and cynicism; about adopting an…
Over the course of a more than two decade-long career, Jacqueline Humphries has approached every canvas with the intent to mess it up. She sees its blank white form as the perfect last painting…
In large abstract paintings, Jacqueline Humphries puts a contemporary spin on the AbEx and Minimalist tradition.
Courting risk, favoring the casual, modest and unfinished, a number of painters have determined to pursue the medium's richest promises without submitting to the conventions of mastery.