Louise Nevelson: Queen of the New York Art World

“If you have creative work, you don’t have age or time.” LN

Louise Nevelson is known for her wooden boxes and sculptures made from discarded wood scraps she would find on the streets of New York around her studio. Spray painted black, white or gold, she developed a signature look that stood out from other work being done in New York during the late 1950s from a predominantly male art scene.  Nevelson cut a regal figure, tall, commanding and with an original sense of style. Originally from the Ukraine, Nevelson moved to Rockland, Maine with her family in 1920 when she was five.

Nevelson's early wooden boxes were small in scale, and were composed from discarded furniture and wooden objects from the streets of her New York neighborhood. As the years went on her work became larger. By the 1960s, her installations filled large gallery spaces.Influenced by the spritual teachings of Jiddu Krishanmurti, she believed in a fourth dimension, a timeless space between physical and spiritual reality, a domain of purity and limitless potential where art exists.