LOUISE BOURGEOIS: ECHO at Cheim & Read, New York until 1 Nov

Exhibition Description:

Cheim & Read is currently presenting an exhibition of recent sculptures and gouaches by Louise Bourgeois, accompanied by a full-color catalogue with writings by the artist.

Bourgeois (b.1911 in Paris) has lived in New York since 1938. Her prolific career has spanned, and often presaged, several artistic movements. She continues to produce work that engages the symbolic and the psychological, most frequently incorporates subject matter related to female identity and the oppositions that it entails (male/female, mother/father, organic/geometric).

Description:

Image: Louise Bourgeois
THE GOOD BREAST 2007
Gouache on paper; suite of 20
14 5/8 x 11 inches
37.1 x 27.9 centimeters
(BOUR-10881.01 - 10881.20)
CR# BO.15436

The artist: Louise Bourgeois's rich and vibrant oeuvre can be credited to her sustained exploration of recurring themes--home, family, motherhood, sexuality--and a consistently rebellious originality with which she pursues her new imagery.

The Tate Modern in London has organised a comprehensive, full-career retrospective of Bourgeois's work, in association with the Centre Pompidou, Paris. The exhibition has been on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York to the end of September and will now travel next to MoCA, Los Angeles and then to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.

Full Contact Details:

Cheim & Read, 547 West 25 Street, New York
For additional information please contact by calling 212-242-7727, faxing 212-242-7737, or emailing gallery (at) cheimread.com