Index: New work by Beth Humphrey
Index
an exhibition of work by Beth Humphrey
September 4 – October 5, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 4th 6-8pm
Gallery Hours: Thurs through Sat, 12-6pm or by appointment
O+ @ 334 Wall Street, Kingston, NY 12401
O+ proudly presents Index, an exhibition of recent work on paper by Hudson Valley artist Beth Humphrey. Humphrey’s compositions are both whimsical and informed, leveraging the visual languages of landscape, abstraction and object to present sculptural combinations of paper, drawn line and pattern. Her process, pairing formal concision with exploration, feels like the construction of intimate poems solving for the intangibles in the human experience. They balance bright color and familiar forms that call forward associations with home, with weather, with land and body to give shape to emotionality and to shine light on the absurd, the unknown and the existential in being alive.
ARTIST STATEMENT
This body of work is inspired by the infographics from 1950’s & 60’s encyclopedias that attempted to distill information and inspire curiosity about natural systems, depicting individual parts removed from the whole. These were sanitized, clinical, colorful imagery, removed from the exploitation and rampant destruction of these systems. I am reimagining components of natural forces inspired by my own sense of awe and wonder around these systems that support us all.They are constructed with paper as a ground, building up surfaces with paint, drawing, accident, light and shadow.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Beth Humphrey studied printmaking at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and surface design at Oregon College of Art and Craft. She’s had residencies at the Ucross Foundation and the Penland School. Humphrey was a NYFA Mark Fellow in 2009 and exhibits her work nationally. In 2005, she co-founded Art Lab, an arts based non-profit promoting affordable arts programming for children based in the Hudson Valley, is the Education Curator for the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum and is currently the Workforce Director of the Midtown Kingston Arts District Youth Workforce Development Program (formerly known as PUGG/Pop-Up Gallery Group).