1. Louise Bourgeois

2. Louise Bourgeois

Born December 25, 1911 in Paris, France

3. Moved to New York, NY October 12th, 1938 4. Died May 31, 2010 in New York, USA Deeply symbolic her works deals with issues of desire,sexuality,identity, and isolation. 5. Biography

Studied art at various schools in Paris, including the Ecole du Louvre, Acadmie des Beaux-Arts, Acadmie Julian, and Atelier Fernand Lger. In 1938, she emigrated to the United States and continued her studies at the Art Students League in New York.

6. Though her beginnings were as an engraver and painter, by the 1940s she had turned her attention to sculptural work 7. Early sculpture was composed of groupings of abstract and organic shapes, often carved from wood. By the 1960s she began to execute her work in rubber, bronze, and stone, and the pieces themselves became larger, more referential to what has become the dominant theme of her workher childhood. 8. Deeply symbolic, her work uses her relationship with her parents and the role sexuality played in her early family life as a vocabulary in which to understand and remake that history. 9. The anthropomorphic shapes her pieces takethe female and male bodies are continually referenced and remadeare charged with sexuality and innocence and the interplay between the two. Bourgeoiss work is in the collections of most major museums around the world. 10. Installation view, 'Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works', Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Venice, Italy, 2010 11. Installation view, 'Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works', Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Venice, Italy, 2010 12. Installation view, Museum of Capodimonte, Naples, Italy, 2008 13. Installation view, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, 2008 14. Installation view, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, 2008 15. Installation view, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2008 16. Installation view, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2008 17. Installation view, 'Louise Bourgeois - Aller-Retour', Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2006 18. Spider, 2003 Stainless steel and fabric 22.9 x 30.5 x 35.6 cm / 9 x 12 x 14 in 19. Maman The Spider

The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. My family was in the business of tapestry restoration, and my mother was in charge of the workshop. Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother. Louise Bourgeois

20. Tate Modern, London 21. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri 22. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario 23. State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia 24. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain 25. Mori Art Museum, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan 26. Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, South Korea 27. Pappajohn Sculpture Park, Des Moines, Iowa 28. Web

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fq4_QVkFgw&feature=related

29. http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/sculpture/clips/17449/ 30. http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/bourgeois/ 31. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5wQOJd5TzQ&feature=related 32. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi2KhYQB1tk 33. Other Work The Welcoming Hands 1996 34. Couple, 1966 Fabric 35. Untitled, circa 1970 Oval: paint on board 36. Passage dangereux, 1997 Mixed media 37. The Hour Is Devoted to Revenge, 1999 Wall relief: steel and lead 38. I Do,I Undo, andI Redo1999-2000 39. Untitled, 2005 Fabric 40. Femme, 2005 Bronze, silver nitrate patina