Museum of Contemporary Art
250 S Grand Ave
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Louise Bourgeois, Louise Bourgeois in 1990 with her marble sculpture, Eye to Eye, 1970, Courtesy Museum of Contemporary Art
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Oct 26, 2008 – Jan 25, 2009
Mondays (11am–5pm)
Thursdays (11am–8pm)
Fridays (11am–5pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (11am–6pm)
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$10
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Louise Bourgeois' deeply personal art combines an in-your-face sexuality with disturbing, even terrifying, imagery of trespassed flesh and violated privacy. Yet her work, including her penchant for enormous, looming arachnids, is reassuringly self-possessed. This survey chronicles the evolution of the artist's identity through her deliberations in visuals and materials, wherein an early knack for tomboy conceptualism opened the door to the boys' club some 60 years ago. A later, more well-known taste for textiles, crafts, and literary classicism, meanwhile, dismembers recurrent themes of domesticity — prompting her association with feminism. Bourgeois conveys her history and neuroses compulsively through her art; her trademark "cells" comprise sculptures-as-bodies, rooms-as-characters, women-as-houses, and other dimensional manifestations of personal iconography.
