Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Louise Nevelson, Sky Cathedral, painted wood, 1982, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Louise Nevelson, Night Leaf, plexiglas sculpture, 1969, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson (born Leah Berliawsky, September 23, 1899, Kiev, Czarist Russia - d. April 17, 1988, New York, New York) was a Ukrainian-born American artist.

Nevelson is known for her abstract expressionist “boxes” grouped together to form a new creation. She used found objects or everyday discarded things in her “assemblages” or assemblies, one of which was three stories high: ”When you put together things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created." Louise was married to Charles Nevelson, and had a child named Myron.

Mercedes Ruehl is currently playing (summer, 2008) Nevelson in Edward Albee's play "Occupant" at the Signature Theater in New York.

[edit] See also

• Environmental sculpture

At Pace Columbus, Gold

• Neith Nevelson

[edit] Books

• Busch, Julia M., A Decade of Sculpture: the New Media in the 1960's (The Art Alliance Press: Philadelphia; Associated University Presses: London, 1974) ISBN 0-87982-007-1
• Wilson, Laurie; Louise Nevelson : iconography and sources (New York : Garland Pub., 1981) ISBN 0-8240-3946-7
• Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey, (New York School Press, 2003.) ISBN 0-9677994-1-4

[edit] External links

• Louise Nevelson Papers Online at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art