Provincetown
Gallery Ehva
Contemporary & Early Provincetown Art
Ewa Nogiec, Director
Winter hours:
Fri, Sat, Sun Noon-4pm
provincetown
contemporary artists
James Bakker
Rachel Brown
Daniel Cleary
Barbara Cohen
Tamar Cohen
Didier Corallo
Daniel Dejean
Tasha Depp
Donna Dodson
Rob DuToit
Jenny Fragosa
Lorrie Fredette
Wendelin Glatzel
Iren Handschuh
Suzanne Harding
Myrna Harrison
Alicia Henry
Jenny Humphreys
Leslie Gillette Jackson
Jane Kogan
MP Landis
Bill Liebeskind
Virginia Luppino
Jay McDermott
Kevin McDermott
Andy Moerlein
Ewa Nogiec
Fawn Potash
Richard E. Smith
Sterck/Rozo
Lisa Ventre
Michael Walden
Rob Westerberg
Special Collection:
Richard Baker
Sculpture Garden (outside):
Whale Tail: Greg Clemence
Wind: Donald Gerola
"Diana Godess of the Hunt": Jerry Holmes
Phil Smith, Show Installations
74 Shank Painter Road
P.O. Box 1426
Provincetown, MA 02657
508-487-0011
508-776-4856 (cell)
www.galleryehva.com
art@galleryehva.com
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Jenny Humphreys
Paintings and Drawings
June 5-17, 2009
Opening Friday, June 5, 6-8pm
These paintings and drawings made over the last two years represent both my interest in presenting nature simply and directly, and my ever present need to exert my own order over those things. These opposing and complimentary themes run throughout most of my work whether it is more traditional or nontraditional media. I don't work directly from nature, but I do spend a lot of time out of doors and I have enormous respect and wonder for the natural world and that is where the inspiration for a lot of my work originates. As the work progresses, it inevitably becomes a navigation between the need I have to impose order, to tell a story, to make sense of the world; versus my desire and need to try to relate the direct sensual response I have to the world I see, hear and smell around me. This process progresses naturally without plan or forethought, so I am often as surprised with the resulting artwork as I would be with something that I came upon as opposed to having made myself. In fact, I find that when I make a plan I am soon moving away from it, and when I think that I am working purely from intuition that I find familiar patterns and themes emerging. This is the way we humans experience much of the world and as an artist I find it to be fascinating as well as challenging and sometimes frustrating.
Images of flowers, animals, figures, and landscapes are common images in my paintings; and I find myself using them I use shape, color line and form to combine into whatever it is I want to convey. I was fortunate to spend some time last spring away from the Cape painting in Virginia, and I was delighted and unprepared for a new kind of light which entered the work that I did while I was there, and which I was able to bring back to my studio and which is now incorporated into the big story from which I draw my inspiration.
Although I would like to make sense of what I do and what I see and to be able to make it clear and sensible to myself and to others, as my whole career has taught me; my path seems to be always one of discovery and experience. Then if then I have to tell the story many times before I get it right, then that is what I do. The result of that process is my work.
-- Jenny Humphreys
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Jenny Humphreys has lived in Provincetown since 1994 when she moved her following a seven month fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center. She has shown locally at DNA Gallery, the Schoolhouse Gallery, Artstrand, and PAAM, as well as at the FAWC Gallery where she had second fellowship in 2000/2001. Last spring, Humphreys spent a month in residency at the Virginia center for the Creative Arts, her third time as a resident there. She has also been a resident at Yaddo and Millay colonies. Trained as a painter, she has also made multi media works including installations and performances, (some involving food), sewn pieces, photography, books and video/film.
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JENNY HUMPHREYS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
New Work, Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown, MA
Flags, Flying Space Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
2004
New Paintings , Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown, MA
2003
Jenny Humphreys , Koussevitzy Gallery, Berkshire College, Pittsfield, MA
2001
How to avoid and other Photographs , DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
How I got through Lent, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Why Angel Cakes Fail, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
In the Garden, Hot Cakes, Charlottesville, VA
1999
New Work, Acme Art Co., Columbus, OH
Jenny's Room, Artists' Foundation, Boston, MA
1998
Saint in a Cradle, Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown, MA
BBQ with a Prisoner, P-town Inc., Provincetown, MA
Wedding Dresses and Flags, DNA, Provincetown, MA
1997
Ladies' Fancy Work, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Quilts and Aprons, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1996
Memorial for Chita, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
cunt., DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1995
New Work, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1994
Sugar Babies and Candy Legs, Berta Walker West, Provincetown, MA
mine., Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1993
Recent Work, Gallery at he Beckett, New York, NY
1991
Sanctum, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1989
Recent Paintings, Penn Sate University, Harrisburg, PA
1988
Yaddo Paintings, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
GROUP EXHIBITION
2009
Works on Paper, Artstrand, Provincetown, MA
Postcards from the Edge, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Yellow, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
2008
Project Edge, Kobalt Gallery, Provincetown, MA
DNA Gallery Artists, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Fine Arts Work Center 40 th Anniversary, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
Invitational, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2007
Project Edge, ArtStrand, Provincetown, MA
Quaking Bog III, Provincetown, MA
Gallery Artists, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2006
Quaking Bog II, Provincetown Quaking bog installation
Cusp, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
I am Provincetown, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2005
All Town Invitational, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Gallery Artists and Invited Guests, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Bedtime Stories, Gallery Artists, Flying Space Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
Drawings , Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown, MA
2004
Drawings and Curator's choice, Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown, MA
Feast and Famine and Water, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Spec(k)tacular, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2003
Invitational, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Peaceable Kingdom and Gallery Artists, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2002
Uncommon Threads, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Genetics, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Band of Outsiders, Hallspace, Boston, MA
New Works, Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown, MA
2001
Small Work, Cape Museum of Art, Dennis MA
Curator's Choice, Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown, MA
Former Fellows, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2000
Curator's Choice, Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown, MA
Gallery Artists, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
New Work, Betty Mooney Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Visual Art Fellows, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1999
Art & Suitcase; Will Travel, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Deep 6, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
My Garden, Cherrystone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1998
Subtext and Cheap Thrills, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Outdoor Sculpture, East End Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Drawing Invitational, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA
Inaugural Exhibition, Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown, MA
East of the Canal, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1997
Invitational, Provincetown Art Association, Milena Kalinofska, curator
Ghost, Domestic Bliss, Cloning, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Outdoor Sculpture, Cherrystone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
2 X 10, T.J. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Nexus Turns 21, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1996
20/20, Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA
Self Portrait Plus One, Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Visual Art Fellows, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1993
Salon, OIA Gallery, New York, NY
1992
Salon of the Mating Spiders, Test-Site Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1990
Diverse Visions, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Painting Grantees,
traveling, with venues in PA, NJ, MD, DE, VA
Salon de Refuse, Philadelphia Armory, Philadelphia, PA
Nexus Steps over Jesse Helms into the '90's, Nexus, Philadelphia, PA
Nexus at Amos Eno, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
Annual Group Exhibitions, Nexus Gallery, 1987-1990, Philadelphia, PA
1988
Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Arts Guild, Lowery Sims curator, New
Canaan, CT
1987
Exhibition B, Momenta Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1986
On the Edge, Indianapolis Arts Guild, Indianapolis, IN
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2008
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Residency, Sweetbriar, VA
2005
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Residency, Sweetbriar, VA
2002
Provincetown Cultural Council Grant, MA Cultural Council
Driskel Studio Residency, Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown, MA
2001
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, residency, Sweetbriar, VA
Fine Arts Work Center, fellowship, Provincetown, MA
1998
Millay Colony, residency, Austerliz, NY
1994
Fine Arts Work Center, fellowship, Provincetown, MA
1992
Millay Colony, residency, Austerliz, NY
1990
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Grant, painting
1988
Yaddo, residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
1985
Indiana University Traveling Fellowships to Italy
EDUCATION
1986 MFA, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1983 BA, Yale University, New Haven, CT, cum laude
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Brown, Larissa, The Art of Jenny Humphreys, Knitty, winter 2004
Beete, Paulette, Uncommon Threads, American Spirit, v. 138, #2, pp. 34-38, 2004
Nagler, Gillian, Uncommon Threads, exhibition catalogue, 2002
McCaid, Kate, Artists Sew Quilts Past and Present, Boston Globe, 16 Aug ., 2002
Hill, Shawn, Band of Outsides, Art New England, June/July, 2002
Desautels, Gerry, Jenny Humphreys Strikes Again, Provincetown, Banner, 28 Feb., 2002
Briccetti, Lee, Putting Bread on the Table, P-town Women, 1998, pp.37-39
McDonald, Gregory, Jenny Humphreys Sews Haunting Feminist Images into Fabric,
Cape Cod Art and Antiques, July 1998, p.1
McDonald, Gregory, Home Cooked Feminism; Two Provincetown Artists find a
Voice in Domesticity, Cape Codder, 24 Aug., 1997
Lindstrom, Rena, A Century of Women Artists; Four Women of the Provincetown
Art Colony, P-town Women, 1999, pp. 19-22
Gallery Briefs; Behrens, Critchley, Finley, and Humphreys, The Advocate, 18 July, 1997
Burns, Joe, Artitsts Give Ironic Twist to Domestic Bliss, Provincetown Banner, 2 Oct., 1997
Mandell, Pamela, Domestic Comfort and Body Parts; An Interview with Jenny Humphreys, Provincetown Arts, v. 12 , 1996 , pp . 82-85
Burns, Joe, Humphreys' Quilt Wrapped in Controversy, Provincetown Banner, 18 Jan., 1996, p.11
TEACHING/LECTURES
2003 Visiting Artist, Berkshire College, Pittsfield, MA
2002 Visiting Artist, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
1992 Associate Professor, Union County College, Cranford, NJ
1989 Visiting Artist, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, PA
1986 Assistant Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
