Jacqueline Humphries's survey exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum features her painting installation "TSLA" (2025), a five-panel work hung on bare metal studs that bisects the gallery space. The installation plays with perception through mirrors and anamorphic imagery, including a distorted Tesla logo, and includes a hidden set of red paintings visible only as reflections. The show also presents nine smaller works generated in part by artificial intelligence, housed in a green-walled adjacent room.
The exhibition matters because it showcases Humphries's ongoing exploration of painting as both disclosure and obfuscation, using technical mediation—stenciling, mirrors, and AI—to question visibility and aesthetic salience. It also highlights the Aspen Art Museum's commitment to presenting conceptually ambitious contemporary art, and the installation's spatial manipulation engages viewers in a dialogue about perception and meaning in the digital age.