Nene Humphrey (American, b. 1947) , "Loculus #2", 2000, silk, needles, thread and felt, signed, titled and dated on reverse, h. 57 3/4 in., w. 32 1/2 in., d. 1 3/4 in.; together with wall mount. Note: Nene Humphrey is a New York-based sculptor and installation artist who has exhibited in numerous museums and galleries nationwide. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation, Brown Foundation, and Anonymous was a Woman among others. Humphrey’s work focuses on sensory experiences of the world, human psychology and handcraft. Her Loculus series, an example of which is offered here, was created between 1999 and 2001, continuing the artist’s interest in meditative repetition. The Loculus works involve masses of hand-stitched red discs, affixed to the wall and standing or hanging structures by trails of thread. As Ariella Budick noted in Newsday Magazine in 2000, the works had a biological appearance “like an enlargement of clustered cells. (The title refers to the cavities in a plant ovary.)” Works from Humphrey's Loculus series were shown at Kiang Gallery in Atlanta, Dorsky Gallery in New York, the Islip Art Museum in Islip, NY, and they were included in Site and Insight at MoMA PS1 in 2003.Ref.: Budick, Ariella. “Woman to Woman.” Newsday Magazine. Apr. 23, 2000

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