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Show Woman Artist Featured The Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, Southern Utah State College, Cedar City, announced that a' special film program will be presented Thursday evening, April 3, 1980 at 8 p.m. The film will feature American sculptor and painter, Louise Nevelson. Nevelson was born in Kiev, Russia, and arrived in the U.S. in 1905. She received her art training with Kenneth Ken-neth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League (1929-30) and in Munich with Hans Hofman (1931-32). Her first sculpture show was in 1940 at the Nierendorf Gallery, New York. Her archaeological studies in Mexico (1951-52) influenced her terracotta sculpture. She began to work in wood during the early 1950s and in 1955 began to use iound wooden objects culled from ruined tenements, painting them a uniform color and manipulating them in various combinations. Later, many combinations were done within boxes that, when joined together, grow into entire walls and rooms. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, owns her "Sky Cathedral" (1958), and the whiu; "Da .v..'i Wedding Feast" (1959) is in the Martha Jackson Gallery, New York. Her work was shown in the Museum of Modern Art's "Sixteen Americans" exhibition in 1959, and she was given a major retrospective by the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1967. Nevelson has brought poetry and a new urban image out of the discards of modern society and has contributed to what is known as "en-, vironmental sculpture." The film will be shown in conjunction with the exhibition opening of "Contemporary y; -American Indian Art," April 3 to 25, 1980. |