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Magic Kingdom

by Charlie Schultz
Adam Cvijanovic, David Humphrey at Postmasters June 29th, 2010 - August 6th, 2010
Posted 7/18/10

Salvador Dali once said of Disney that he was the only true surrealist in America. Were Dali to rise from the dead and peruse Adam Cvijanovic and David Humphrey’s exhibition, Defrosted: a life of Walt Disney, I think he would wholeheartedly approve. A large mural presents the arc of Disney’s life as a highly refined spectacle; an installation evokes the melee and slapdash associations of artistic collaboration. And then there is a crypt with a low-fi remake of the Disney classic �... [more]

Psychosexy: Interview with David Humphrey
by Bradley Rubenstein
2012-09-22

New York, Sep. 2012: David Humphrey is a New York artist, born in 1955, who has been showing his paintings and sculpture internationally since the 1980s. Occasionally called a Pop Surrealist, his work hybridizes a variety of depiction schemes and idioms to make works charged with psycho-social content and narrative potential. He is represented by the Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, NY, and is a senior critic at the Yale School of Art. An anthology of his art writing, Blind Handshake, was published by... [more]