Louise Nevelson (1899-1988)

“I automatically went to wood. I wanted a medium that was immediate. Wood was the thing that I could communicate with almost spontaneously and get what I was looking for. For me, I think it’s the textures and the livingness….When I’m working with wood, it’s very alive. It has a life of its own. If this wood wasn’t alive, it would be dust. It would disintegrate to nothing. The fact that it’s wood means it has another life.”— Louise Nevelson (L. Nevelson, E. Albee. Louise Nevelson: Atmosphere and Environments, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1980, p.55).