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Nene Humphrey is a New York-based sculptor and installation artist. Her work, focusing on sensory experiences of the world, human psychology and handcraft, has been compared to that of Kiki Smith,〔Susan Krane. ''Nene Humphrey: Matrix.'' catalog essay. Winthrop University, South Carolina. 1992.〕 Janine Antoni,〔Cathy Byrd. ''Seeing Red: Nene Humphrey’s cosmic clusters converge at Kiang Gallery.'' Creative Loafing Atlanta online magazine. June 19, 2002.〕 Petah Coyne,〔Susan Hapgood. ''Object Lessons: Feminine Dialogues with the Surreal.'' catalog essay. Massachusetts College of Art: 1995, p.9.〕 and Louise Bourgeois.〔Susan Krane. ''Nene Humphrey: Matrix.'' catalog essay〕 She has lived and worked in New York since 1978. ==Education and Early Work== Humphrey received her M.A. at Goddard College, Boston in 1972 and her M.F.A. at York University, Toronto in 1978. In the 1980s she became known for works made with wax, plaster, wood, and wire armatures. These abstract sculptures alluded to and were directly informed by bodily processes and the human form, “the body’s operating systems, its electrical and mechanical structures.” 〔Susan Krane. ''Nene Humphrey: Matrix.'' catalog essay〕 Her emphasis on material specificity drew comparisons to postminimal sculptors like Eva Hesse. 〔Patricia Rosoff. ''Nene Humphrey: Carnal Knowledge.'' Sculpture Magazine, Dec. 2004.〕 Like Hesse’s anti-forms, Humphrey’s sculptures referenced minimalism’s formal severity and also examined it critically. Close observation of these works revealed textures by turns soft and ragged, an effect of eroding the surface and “literally scarring or wounding the form.” 〔Susan Krane. ''Nene Humphrey: Matrix.'' catalog essay〕 As Art in America observed of the work in 1992, “Sterile from a distance, their tactile and organic qualities become evident as one approaches… Paradoxically, this crudeness softens the work’s appearance.” 〔Amy Jinkner-Lloyd. ''Nene Humphrey at Sandler Hudson.'' Art in America. Dec. 1992.〕 Her work ''Breathing Wall for Vesalius'' (1985–86) was made after a back injury left her incapacitated, resulting in drawing studies and a series of sculptural structures with spine-like columns. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nene Humphrey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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