Neith Nevelson Paintings Exhibit – Saturday June 2nd 6:30pm Coconut Grove

Neith Nevelson is without any doubt a premiere 21st century artist. Dynamic, delicate, independent, complex, evocative, ardent nonconformist..... and a prolific master with an undeniable personal mystique and genius. As she is studied further, the more she tends to resemble the vastest colorful universe.

Neith Nevelson comes from a most prominent artistic heritage, she is the granddaughter of iconic Louise Nevelson, one of the most important sculptors of the twentieth century, under whom Neith learned her craft and techniques and became an artist very early. Today Neith Nevelson with her immense body of fine work stands on her own pedestal as a living legend of serious art and an American treasure.

Her paintings mainly revolve around three subjects, horses, nudes and faces, each piece with rich imagery painted with strokes of a master. An exhibit of recent works by Neith Nevelson will be on display at Wine…Etc. located at 3197 Commodore Plaza Coconut Grove FL 33133 on Saturday June 2nd 2012 starting at 6:30pm to coincide with this coming first Saturday of the month’s Coconut Grove Gallery Walk.

For further information please call 786-546-5135

"The t-shirt lady in the bike..."

[Self-taught American-born painter. At various times of her career, Ms. Nevelson has been associated with cubism, surrealism and been categorized as an outsider artist. Her grandmother, Louise Nevelson 1899-1988, was best known as an abstract expressionist and sculptor.

In the 1960's, she briefly cooperated with Salvador Dali in a project that was never finalized.]

[Ms. Nevelson's paintings are usually of male faces, female bodies and horses.]


One of a handful of surviving t-shirts hand-painted by Neith in the 1980's.

[Largely ignored for many years by the art-world, Ms. Nevelson has achieved a cult-like following that continues to attract the curious back to Neith's world time and time again, long after many artists would have been forgotten. In the 1980's she was simply known as "the t-shirt lady on the bike" by the locals in Miami, a nickname she earned due to her habit of selling hand-painted t-shirts from her bike in the streets.]

[Throughout Ms. Nevelson's life has been the subject of newspaper and magazine articles, documentaries and book proposals.]

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REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

* 'The Artist Speaks: Louise Nevelson,' Dorothy Gees Seckler, with photographs by Ugo Mulas, "Art in America", January-February, 1967.
* Interview, 'An Artist was her last goal,' by Beth Mendelsohn Gilbert, "Coconut Grove Sun Reporter", September 13, 1984, page 1 and 10.
* 'What have they done to the Grove?' Lawrence Mahoney, "News/Sun Sentinel", June 16, 1985, 11-15, 20.
* 'My Heritage, My Blueprint,' Jane Woolridge, "The Miami Herald", April 22, 1988, pp. 1-2B.
* "The creative legacy and troubled world of painter Neith Nevelson,' Forrest Norman, "Miami New Times", June 24-30, 2004.
* The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists (Hardcover) by Ann Lee Morgan (Author), Oxford University Press, USA (July 18, 2007)