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Tribute Piece: Louise Nevelson Styled Art
Location: Higginbotham-Bartlett
1125 E. Main (North Side Of Building)
Listed Caption:
Louise Nevelson (1899-1988)
Russian born American sculptor, painter, and graphic artist. She studied with Hans Hofmann in Munich and by the mid-1940's she was making assemblages. She became internationaly famous for her "sculptured walls". These are wall-like reliefs made up of many boxes and compartments into which abstract shapes are assembled together with commonplace objects such as chair legs, bits of balustrades, and other "found objects". These contructions, painted a uniform black, or afterwards white or gold, won her a reputation as a leader in both assemblage and environment sculpture. They have great formal elegance, but also a strange ritualistic power. In the late 1960's she started working in a greater variety of materials and also began to receive commissions for large open-air environmental sculptures, which she executed in aluminum or steel.
Her interest in assembling sculpture began when a home was constructed near hers and she collected the left-over blocks of wood.
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