
“I use action and counteraction, like in music, all the time. Action and counteraction. It was always a relationship – my speaking to the wood and the wood speaking back to me.” — Louise Nevelson, 1982
Louise Nevelson's painted wood assemblage reflects her lifelong dialogue with raw materials, transforming discarded scraps and fragments into a unified, rhythmic composition. Bathed in a monochromatic coat of paint, the work unifies disparate wooden elements into a single, immersive presence, erasing individual origins in favor of collective harmony. The piece embodies Nevelson's belief in the reciprocal exchange between artist and material, where each form answers another in a continuous visual conversation of action and counteraction.
- Medium
- painted wood
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- Auction House · Phillips
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September 17, 2015
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