Jennifer Coates, Collaborative Contemporary Surrealist Cartoon Drawing Humphrey + Coates, 2000

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signed by both in pencil verso. dated.
Surrealist cartoon drawing. Actual drawing size is 5.75 X 5.75.

Their collaborative works … more signed by both in pencil verso. dated.
Surrealist cartoon drawing. Actual drawing size is 5.75 X 5.75.

Their collaborative works on paper emerge out of an ongoing relationship whereby the two artists seem to take on a third artistic persona. Implied in this process is a great deal of trust, submission, and amusement. Their shared affinities run deep, and predate their personal relationship. Primarily painters, both write, make sculpture, and perform music. Coates has shown her work and performed her music extensively. Her curatorial projects and writings on art are among her many accomplishments. Humphrey has worldwide exposure as a painter with recent shows in Montreal, London, and Miami. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships
including the Rome Prize and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.


David Humphrey (b 1955) lives and works in New York. He has had solo exhibitions at the McKee Gallery, New York, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, and the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati. His work is in many public collections including the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. He is a senior critic at the Yale School of Art and an anthology of his art writing, entitled Blind Handshake, was published in 2010.

Jennifer Coates received her BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1995 and her MFA from Hunter College in 2001. She was the subject of a solo exhibition, Carb Load, in 2016 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Collaborative work with her husband David Humphrey was shown in 2015 in a two-person exhibition, Plus Onus, at Arts + Leisure, New York. A solo exhibition of Coates’s work, All U Can Eat, was held at Freight + Volume Gallery, New York City.

Contemporary Faux Naïf, Contemporary Surrealism, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Figurative Painting, New York Artists, 20th Century Art, Unsettling, The Fantastic, United States, Language, Human Figure, Painting, Comic/Cartoon, Installation, Popular Culture, Sculpture, Drawing. less