“What makes a painting work or not work is something I don’t understand,” the American abstract artist Jacqueline Humphries once said. “It’s the mystical aspect of painting, which is part of its power.” Humphries creates large-scale works that draw mystery from a fusion of painting and new technologies—among them, metallic silver pigment, emojis, emoticons, and CAPTCHA tests. Born in New Orleans in 1960, she began her practice as a painter in the 1980s, a time when the medium was widely declared “dead.” But she didn’t waver. “Painting can adapt to anything,” Humphries notes. For this exhibition, she employs still newer methods, including mirrrors, film strips, and drip paintings generated in part by A.I. —Elena Clavarino