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ARTCAT



Jeff Gauntt & David Humphrey

PICK

Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
530 West 22nd Street, 212-929-2262
Chelsea
January 27 - February 25, 2006
Reception: Friday, January 27, 6 - 8 PM
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Through its subject matter and color, Jeff Gauntt’s work suggests a storybook style, albeit a mysterious one precluding straightforward narrative interpretation. Everyday objects (a shoe, a tree) have a happy dream-like quality that is suffused with somberness, sometimes coexisting with a more melancholy mood.

For David Humphrey, in seeming opposition to what has been called the “thrift store social realism” of his visual vocabulary, he relishes in the processes of painting itself, creating lush, abstract backgrounds in postcard-like landscapes. Referencing everything from amateur painting (often by Dwight Eisenhower) to pin-ups, Humphrey uses vernacular imagery and modernist painting as tools for pictoral experimentation.

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