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Fredericks & Freiser is pleased to announce Ass Backwards, an exhibition of new work by David Humphrey. The exhibition continues Humphrey’s forty-year commitment to making formally inventive, psycho-socially engaged paintings and sculpture.

Humphrey’s new paintings and sculpture celebrate the mixing up of directions, the movement forward seen backwards. Aren’t asses already backwards? Asses add humor, but the butt of a joke is not always appreciated by its receiving end. Paintings are sometimes funny, and artists frequently develop their work in counterintuitive and amusingly inefficient …