Neith Nevelson

Neith Nevelson (July 16, 1946 - June 21, 2023) was an American artist best known for paintings of horses, female nudes, and male faces.

Background

Nevelson's grandmother was the sculptor Louise Nevelson. Her father, Mike Nevelson (1922–2019), was a sculptor, and her mother, Susan Nevelson (1924–2015), was an artist and textile designer.

Nevelson grew up in Florence, Italy, and began painting at the age of two. She spent her childhood in Florence and New York City, and as a teenager moved to New York, to live at her grandmother's studio.

Nevelson studied briefly at the Accademia di Belle Arti, in Florence, Italy. As a student she concentrated on subjects she eventually became known for rather than the standard curriculum of still life drawings and landscapes, and was eventually expelled. Her first exhibition was in 1974 at the Galleria Nuova in Florence. Her last was in 1994; the catalog and exhibition were titled "Neith Nevelson: In the Middle of the Night", by Wendy Blazier. She was influenced by cubism, surrealism, and expressionism.

She was the illustrator of a forthcoming book of poems tentatively titled, Day's Night by Jorge Reyes.

Outside of her artistic endeavors, Nevelson was notable for political involvement in the area of abortion advocacy, for which she was jailed in Florence, Italy, in 1977, along with a group of advocates from the Radical Party, a left-wing activist group still active in Europe.

In 2009, Neith's life was the basis of the TV show Caso Cerrado, with Ana María Polo, broadcast daily in the US by the Telemundo Network.

Neith Nevelson died on June 21, 2023, in Miami, FL.