DONA NELSON: 2013 Recipient of Artist Award

Widely regarded as one of the most vital, intellectually considered, aggressively tactile and physically inventive American painters of her generation, Dona Nelson is also a highly regarded educator. She is a Professor of Painting and Drawing, Tyler School of Art, Temple University. Critic Roberta Smith noted recently, "Nelson has painted prolifically and innovatively for nearly 40 years, following her own path through the gap between abstraction and representation."

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