Venturer Spotlight: Louise Bourgeois
The Venturer Spotlight is our ongoing series highlighting women whose stories deserve to be told, as often and loudly as possible.
These are women who’ve chosen to live passionately, and to continue to question, challenge, and venture out with bravery and curiosity in whatever field or circumstance they found themselves in. These are our role models, and the women we want to be when we grow up.
HERE’S WHY WE LOVE HER…
She marked out a space for herself in the New York abstract expressionist art community for almost 60 years.
She worked alongside loud voices like Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, and quietly went on creating ground-breaking, large-scale sculpture on ideas like femininity, gender roles, abuse, censorship, AIDs awareness, LGBTQ equality over the span of decades. She continued growing as an artist all the way to her heath at age 99, responding with powerful messages relevant to every time period she found herself in.
What a badass.
WANT TO DIVE DEEPER?
Here are a few ways you can learn more about her…
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Here is an excellent 2008 documentary about her life called The Spider, The Mistress, And The Tangerine, which you can currently rent on iTunes.
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