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Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction. . Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988) was an American artist who used scrap wood and discarded furniture to create large-scale monochromatic sculptures that reflect a rich personal history. Born in present-day Keiv, Ukraine, Nevelson and her family immigrated to the United States in the early twentieth-century. As a Jewish, Yiddish-speaking family the Nevelsons were a minority in Maine, but Louise Nevelson moved to New York City where she attended the Arts Students League, and became involved in the New York art scene of the mid-twentieth century. Influenced by constructivism, cubism, and abstract expressionism, Nevelson pioneered installation and site specific art by creating sculptures large enough to fill entire rooms. The cabinet-like wooden sculptures are intricately layered and piece together like a puzzle, or gears of a machine. Nevelson painted the material she found i...

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