{"data":{"id":"35483","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":35483,"topgoose_id":21965,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":35483,"title":"Untitled","display_artist_text":"Jacqueline Humphries","display_date":"2009","accession_number":"2009.95","dimensions":"Overall: 90 × 96 1/16 in. (228.6 × 244 cm)","medium":"Oil on linen","department":"collection","classification":"Paintings","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eJacqueline Humphries, \u003cem\u003eUntitled\u003c/em\u003e, 2009. Oil on linen, overall: 90 × 96 1/16 in. (228.6 × 244 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee 2009.95. © Jacqueline Humphries\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eIn her canvases, Jacqueline Humphries often uses a metallic silver paint that she mixes herself to create a reflective surface. Long interested in exploring the point at which an abstract image begins to appear as a figure (or inversely, when a form becomes abstract), Humphries here depicts a central motif, which she partially obscures through further application of paint. A target-like group of concentric circles has been painted over and alongside gestural strokes and drips of pigment; the sense of motion emanating from these forms is further complicated by the effects of light on the metallic ground. Indeed, because of the paint’s reflectivity, \u003ci\u003eUntitled\u003c/i\u003e takes on a shimmering, animate quality, appearing different from each vantage as the viewer moves around it. As Humphries has stated: “With the silver paintings, the same part will one minute be bright, as if in light, the next dark, as if in shadow. . .Any painting looks different on separate viewings, and it forms a kind of composite in your mind: ‘Today the painting did this, yesterday it did that.’ Paintings do behave this way, or rather people do, so I attempted to heighten this sense of mutability.”\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":null,"alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-31T10:53:10.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:01:54.644-05:00","images":[]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"11894","type":"artist"}]}}}}