“I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands”
Louise Bourgeois creates uncomfortable, voluptuous sculptures hinting at the body and forms. The presence of weight in her work adds this sort of seriousness and depth to fabric-based pieces or phallic-shaped bronze. She mixes subjects of femininity and masculinity–making statements on American sexual culture and intimacy. Although she’s not as well known for her paintings (fabric works), I find them to be sweet, yet completely blunt–an exciting combination.
http://www.moma.org/explore/collection/lb/
Couple 1, 1996.
Mother and Child, 2000.
JANIE HALL 