b. 1955 Pittsburgh / Lives Works NYC / Maryland Institute / NYU
painting, drawing, sculpture, installation
David Humphrey's work often includes fantastical creatures and objects fixed in unexpected juxtapositions and dreamlike tableaux. He emerged in the 1970s with a clearly Postmodern disregard for staying inside any particular aesthetic box, and has since ushered into his work cartoon figures, expressionist gestures, fantastic landscapes, hip-hop references, and academic figure drawing (often erotically charged), to name but a few regular co-habitants of a resolutely open-ended painting.
Collections: Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
