Celebrated for large-scale sculpture and installation art, Louise Bourgeois was also an inventive and prolific printmaker, especially during the last decade of her life. Centered around one of her most powerful themes-motherhood and maternity-the exhibition ‘Louise Bourgeois. Once there was a mother’ at our 18th Street gallery, places Bourgeois’s printed works in relation to sculptures and drawings to highlight the essential role printmaking played within her multifaceted practice.
Jerry Gorovoy, former studio assistant to Louise Bourgeois and now head of her foundation, The Easton Foundation, and printmaker Felix Harlan of Harlan & Weaver print studio reflect on their frequent collaboration with the artist, characterized by an almost daily exchange of ideas and techniques. Their experience with Bourgeois was particularly noteworthy due to the striking parallel between the artist's creative process, marked by the repetitive layering and unearthing of emotional motifs and memories, and the meticulous, piecemeal physical layering process to printmaking.
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