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Cheryl Humphreys’ undulating colors and elliptical topographies deliver a sensory experience. Invoking subtle, highly considered strategies, the artist seeks to generate physical calm in viewers of the work. As with The Bauhaus’ geometric colorists, Rothko’s liminal spiritualism, or the 1970s architect of light, James Turrell, Humphreys identifies perception itself as material.
Printmaking is usually highly methodical and ritualistic, and it is absolutely so in Humphreys’ hands. Through repetition, the human body and mind drop into a more relaxed state; Humphreys builds this into her works like so much respite. Repetition also emphasizes the inextricable interrelatedness of color, texture, shape and scale. As the artist’s compositions shift in hue or size, the forms and textures within them shift too, not unlike the ocean does, naturally, upon entering a cove. Like her aesthetic forbear, Josef Albers, Humphreys’ artwork is influenced by her design work. This interweaving of traditions generates synesthesia-like experience in viewers, whose minds and bodies are uniquely and simultaneously engaged.
Written by Blair Taylor
b. 1986 Ithaca, NY
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
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Works available
Sarah Brook Gallery
Tappan Collective
Artspace
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024, Second Skin, Sarah Brook Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022, Time Sensitive, Sarah Brook Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021, In Color: Spectral Meditations for Healing, Otra Vox, Los Angeles, CA
2021, Time as Texture, Sarah Brook Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015, I just have this feeling…, Paul Loya Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024, Close Crush, Tappan, Los Angeles, CA
2023, Color Fields, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2021, Textiles, Ace Hotel, Brooklyn, NY
2020, Open Studios, Pocoapoco, Oaxaca, MX
2019, 8, Sarah Brook Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019, Art Preview, Sarah Brook Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018, Exploration vs. Expectation, Arms Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018, UNICEF Art Party, Tappan Collective, Los Angeles, CA
2016, Poetics of Relation, DAC Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016, Spatially Speaking, Tappan Collective, Los Angeles, CA
2015, Pulse Miami, Paul Loya Gallery, Miami, FL
2015, Art Project Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2015, UNICEF Art Party, Tappan Collective, Los Angeles, CA
2014, California Dreaming, Paul Loya Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013, Bring Into Being, Pop Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013, Nightmare on Helms Street, Pop Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013, Periphery: Print Exchange, Artists Republic 4 Tomorrow Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2012, Nightmare on Helms Street, Pop Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
RESIDENCIES
2020-21, Otra Vox, Los Angeles, CA
2019, Pocoapoco, Oaxaca, MX
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EDUCATION
2005-2008, Otis College of Art & Design, BFA Communication Arts
2008, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Exchange Program
2004-2005, Savannah College of Art & Design