Jess Humphrey

 

Jess Humphrey is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans collage, glass, photography, and fashion design. After two decades in New York City’s fashion industry, leading design teams and working with textiles, color, and form, she transitioned to full-time contemporary art practice in 2019. Her work is deeply rooted in a fascination with balance, contrast, and perception—drawing inspiration from minimalist color field painters like Ellsworth Kelly and Josef Albers, the experimental spirit of Bauhaus artists Sophie Arp Taub and Gunta Stölzl, and the surreal playfulness of René Magritte.

Blending meticulous craftsmanship with intuitive composition, Humphrey explores how materials interact to shape experience and emotion. She moved to Corning, NY in 2022 to explore the intersection of collage and glass, continuing to push the boundaries of her creative practice, always in pursuit of new ways to bring light, color, and structure into conversation.

 

 

 

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