Beth Humphrey Exhibition - All Around

Opening Friday, June 3, 5-8 pm

and by appointment through July 2nd

Deep Dive Art Projects is thrilled to welcome Beth Humphrey to the Viewing Room at the Deep End. This is the artist's first exhibition in Cleveland, and her return back to Deep Dive, where she was a visiting artist in 2021. Humphrey's practice relates to her training in surface design and printmaking, evolving into its own form of drawing with sculptural elements. She is a gatherer, connecting disparate materials and processes to create works that are both lyrical and rooted in minimalism.

Humphrey's recent works on paper have been about putting small tendrils of energy out into the world to see how they bounce back. This usually manifests as investigations of how we humans are connecting to our environment, both built and natural. "Do we experience awe? Are we extracting or contributing? Am I paying attention?" asks the artist, "I love the expression 'force of nature.' We are surrounded by cycles, evaporation, respiration, erosion, gentle and violent forces at the moment of change." Humphrey works with brown paper bags as a ground, building up surfaces with paint, drawing, also wood, found materials, clay, light, accident, intuition and shadows. The result is evidenced by her re/constructing nature in these dynamic works on paper, which combine printmaking, drawing and collage.

Beth Humphrey is a Hudson Valley based artist and educator. She was born and raised in New York City and studied printmaking at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and surface design at Oregon College of Art and Craft and has shown her work nationally. Beth has had residencies at the Ucross Foundation, WY, and at the Penland School, NC, and was a New York Foundation for the Arts Mark Fellow in 2009. Beth is the Education Curator at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, NY and lives in Saugerties, NY with her husband, poet Guy Reed.

Accident

Collage, monoprint

14x18 inches

2022