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David Aiken Humphrey

David Aiken Humphrey (Born 1955) is active/lives in New York.  David Humphrey is known for Surreal object arrangement, animals, genre, illustration, teaching.

"Beer with a Painter: David Humphrey," by Jennifer Samet, October 25, 2014, published on the website of Hyperallergic.

What I hoped to get from talking to David Humphrey were answers. The images in his paintings are zany, raunchy, and wild: a girl in a lawn chair holding monkeys by their scalps; a woman absent-mindedly marking another woman’s buttocks with daubs of paint; cats sitting beside slices of white bread partially spread with peanut butter. I wanted him to explain what it all meant.

We met in his Long Island City studio before the opening of his current exhibition at Fredericks & Freiser Gallery. At one point, I asked him about a word he had used, and he explained it was a “neologism.” It occurred to me that Humphrey relishes that: the need to create new language to describe what is nevertheless indescribable. He has been a prolific writer on art for decades, and in his own writing, he creates turns of phrase with words that are not usually combined, l   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 14724 characters.]  Artist bio

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