Stuart Shave/Modern Art are pleased to announce the first UK solo exhibition of the New York artist Jacqueline Humphries.

Humphries is an artist known for her unique take on the dilemmas proposed by making abstract painting. In the past she has exhibited her series of black light paintings and light-box paintings, works which are animated by ultraviolet lighting. More recently she gained critical acclaim for her series of works created from a palette of silver reflective paint. In these latest paintings, Humphries expands upon her use of silver to create compelling large-scale works that aspire to challenge and update the discourse of abstraction.

Although Humphries’ works relate to some of the very best abstract expressionists, her paintings also contradict the sense of gesture that we associate with some of the genre’s best artists, such as Joan Mitchell or Willem De Kooning. Humphries paintings create a complex visual conflict between the open-ended proposition of lyrical abstraction, with the seemingly violent interference of spatial geometry contradicting the more epic gestures of her painting.

In this latest series of works, which integrate a palette of green, purple and pinks within the dominant colour of silver, Humphries has

created paintings that question the dynamic of the static relationship between the viewer and the artwork.