# @drawingcenter on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BvmGS3bDP5J
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16044837-drawingcenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2019-03-29T14:17:55.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

## Caption

Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction.
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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 in one color - usually black, but sometimes white, or gold, which cohered the disparate pieces into one giant sculpture. Sometimes using personal objects or momentos, Nevelson imparted her personal history of self-construction into her works. “I have made my world,” she said, “...and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.”
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#LouiseNevelson
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Image: Courtesy National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

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