Louise Bourgeois

Gathering Wool

6 November, 2025 – 24 January, 2026

New York, 22nd Street

Opening Reception

12 November, 6 – 8 pm

Dates

6 November 2025 – 24 January 2026

Artwork Inquiry

Over the course of her seven-decade career, Louise Bourgeois never privileged figuration over abstraction, any more than she favored one material over another, and yet her relationship to abstraction has been less well defined and understood, less easily situated within the main currents of postwar art.

Gathering Wool, explores the artist‘s complex relationship to abstraction through a series of late sculptures, reliefs and works on paper, many of which have never been exhibited before. These will be installed alongside a selection of earlier works to illuminate the consistency of Bourgeois’s themes and her development of a symbolic abstract language.

Join us for the opening reception of Louise Bourgeois. Gathering Wool on Wednesday 12 November from 6 – 8 pm at 542 West 22nd Street, New York.

^{Hero Image: Gathering Wool, 1990, metal, wood and mixed media 243.8 x 396.2 x 457.2 cm / 96 x 156 x 180 in © The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY. Photo: Peter Bellamy}