The Louise Nevelson Foundation presents “Louise Nevelson: Persistence” as a collateral event of the 59^th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia through September 11. In celebration of  the 60^th anniversary of Nevelson’s representation of the United States at the Biennale Arte in 1962, the exhibition includes over 60 works by the pioneering artist created between the 1950s and the 1980s. Julia Bryan-Wilson, professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of California, Berkeley, curated the show in the newly renovated, 500-year-old Procuratie Vecchie. There, Nevelson’s large-scale painted wooden sculptures are presented alongside her rarely seen collages and jewelry pieces, revealing her inspirations from cubism and constructivism, as well as the artist’s experimentation with abstraction and assemblage.