Louise Bourgeois in her home on West 20th Street, New York, 2000.
Photo: © Jean-François Jaussaud; © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
[Hauser & Wirth](https://www.hauserwirth.com) invites us to their inaugural online exhibition of Louise Bourgeois’s drawings that transpose her inner psyche into something tangible through her depictions in ink, watercolor and pencil from 1947-2007. The exhibition launches ‘Dispatches,’ their series of original video, online features and experiences that will connect users with their artists as we continue to navigate our shared reality together.
For the French-American Artist Louise Bourgeois, the act of drawing on paper was a refuge from the intricacies of human experience: ‘The abstract drawings come from a deep need to achieve peace, rest and sleep’. Born in 1911, the artist used her gift as a way to chronicle the trials and tribulations of her past, anxieties, and the side effects of existing. Fueled by introspection, she plays with the fear of losing control and the freedom of giving it up. Bourgeois bridged figuration and abstraction, saying, “Drawings are through feathers, they are ideas that I seize in mid-flight and put down on paper.”
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