Deborah Kass
AFTER LOUISE BOURGEOIS, 2010
Neon and transformers on powder coated aluminum
66 x 68 x 5 in
167.6 x 172.7 x 12.7 cm
167.6 x 172.7 x 12.7 cm
Executed in 2010, this work is from an edition of 6 plus three artist proofs.
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Mining the history of art and pop culture, Deborah Kass creates works that parody and critique standard narratives of postwar art. After Louise Bourgeois, 2010, plays off the spiraling neon...
Mining the history of art and pop culture, Deborah Kass creates works that parody and critique standard narratives of postwar art. After Louise Bourgeois, 2010, plays off the spiraling neon light sculptures of Bruce Nauman. Catching our attention with a spectrum of colors, we must work to decipher its message, an altered quotation by Louise Bourgeois with a decidedly feminist message: “A woman has no place in the art world unless she proves over and over again that she won’t be eliminated.”
Provenance
Artist Studio, NYCKavi Gupta, Chicago
Exhibitions
MORE feel good paintings for feel bad times, Paul Kasmin Gallery, NYC, 2010Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, 2014
Deborah Kass: feel good paintings for feel bad times, New Orleans, Arthur Roger Gallery, 2014
True Colors, Nassau County Museum of Art, NY, 2018