Jacqueline Humphries’ "Protest Signs" are cast in resin from found cardboard and pieces of wood. Part sculpture and part painting, Humphries incorporates pigment into the resin itself before making the casts. She then applies additional painted marks on their “signs” and “posts.” Contemplating her position as an artist that uses self-appropriative methods — processing earlier works and imagery — in examination of our collective contemporary moment, with these signs Humphries questions the agency of painting, and art more generally. Protest signs depend upon clear and pointed expression of opinions. What statement can painting make? And how does it communicate?