Louise Bourgeois

Famously known for her unusual and somewhat creepy representations of spiders and hands, Louise Bourgeois immigrated to the United States from France in 1938. She found success in sculptures of wood, steel, stone and cast rubber, often organic in form and sexually explicit, emotionally aggressive yet witty, and covered many different styles. Everything that she did represented things from her life. In the 1990's she did a series called "cells," which consisted of doors, windows, fencing, and other found objects. They represented scenes from her childhood, which she claimed was the inspiration for many of her pieces. Many of her pieces were centered on the human body specifically hands but also the body as a whole. Sometimes they were very abstract and other times very representational of the actual form.  Many of her creations are very perplexing and just require a long look and intense studying.