"Organized with the Easton Foundation, this two-floor exhibition focuses on Bourgeois’s defining work of the 1960s, a turning point in her practice. Featuring sculptures on the first floor and drawings on the fourth, the exhibition traces the emergence of a formal and symbolic vocabulary fundamental to her art: the fragmented body, the ambiguous sexual object, the repeated organic form, conceived as iterative and subject to transformation."
Louise Bourgeois, Germinal, 1967-88. Photo: Christopher Burke, © The Easton Foundation/ARS, NY
"'Every day,' Louise Bourgeois said, “you have to abandon your past or accept it, and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.” For her, making art entails trying to translate experience into form—an operation that she compares with exorcism. In Bourgeois’s works on view in these galleries, organic formations fuse with the inorganic materiality of the media in which they are rendered, be it marble, wood, or bronze…"
Louise Bourgeois, Crouching Spider, 2003. Photo: Christopher Burke, © The Easton Foundation/ARS, NY