1. Louise Bourgeois

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.

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 work—her 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 take—the female and male bodies are continually referenced and remade—are charged with sexuality and innocence and the interplay between the two. Bourgeois’s 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

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

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, and I Redo 1999-2000

39. Untitled, 2005 Fabric

40. Femme, 2005 Bronze, silver nitrate patina