The Selection Committee Radio Show with David Humphrey, 11/5/24

In honor of Election Day 2024, painter, sculptor, writer, educator, and musician David Humphrey begins his mixtape with the ominous Megastorm by Trans Am—an apt choice for an uncertain moment.

Humphrey’s work is a bit hard to categorize—people with carefully rendered clothes and hairstyles merge directly into other people or melt down into passages of pure abstraction. The clarity of the abstract picture plane breaks apart into pictorial space, only to rush back to the surface again, a trick observed by the two camera-wielding bathers occupying Shutterbugs, 2014.

David Humphrey has an upcoming show, porTraits, at Fredericks & Freiser gallery in New York, opening December 12, 2024. His work can be found on his website, and you can follow him on instagram.

From 2004-2008, Humphrey had a half-hour show on WPS1 art radio called Sound and Vision with a similar premise to the Selection Committee Radio Show. You can listen to those shows now on Apple Podcasts.