Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / David Humphrey has accustomed his audience to acerbically penetrating representational paintings in which witty riffs resolve into considered pronouncements about the world. His 2022 painting Art Shipping – depicting a van about to bring a painting of a misogynistic act of torture from the artist’s serenely rustic home to a presumptively hermetic white-cube gallery – is a fine example of his unsparing fusion of introspection and worldly scrutiny. Whereas such trenchant paintings – and there are many – reflect Humphrey’s fully crystallized ideas, the work in “anecdote,” his current show mainly of drawings at Kate Werble Gallery, captures a number of them in intermediate stages, offering graphic insight into his thought processes.