JENNY HUMPHREYS

Jenny Humphreys has been painting on the Outer Cape since the early 1990s, when she came to Provincetown as a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center. She studied painting as an undergraduate at Yale and then received her MFA at Indiana University, Bloomington. In her Provincetown studio, Humphreys works instinctively, letting images arrive without a fixed plan. A painting might begin with a familiar landscape, but something else often pushes through: a floating eye, a crocodile with red nails and a yellow bow, a figure with a squid on its head. These sometimes humorous details help express something that cannot always be explained but can certainly be felt.

Humphreys seems drawn to the unexpected. Her paintings often take shape through a kind of freedom and honesty that keeps the work alive. She has been showing at Four Eleven Gallery since 2019.