ARTIST: Louise
Bourgeois
DATE: 2006
ADDRESS: 100
North Third Street
TYPE: Sculpture
MATERIALS: Stainless steel, aluminum, LED lighting
BUDGET: $750,000
DISTRICT: 7
ZIP CODE: 85004
Bourgeois's monumental sculpture was made with aluminum and polished stainless steel. Its mirror face is fractured into patterns that Bourgeois derived from a drawing of a spider web – a recurring theme in her work. The fractured pattern gives viewers altered views of themselves and their surroundings. In addition to reflecting a view of the atrium, the mirror also feature's one of Bourgeois's hallmark phrases in illuminated letters: “Art is Guaranty of Sanity." The elegant back of the mirror is made with scalloped ridges of brushed aluminum. The sculpture was engineered and fabricated by Caid Industries, in Tucson.
President Clinton awarded Bourgeois the National Medal of the Arts, the nation's highest honor for visual arts, in 1997. Bourgeois was born in France in 1911 and moved to New York in 1938. . She passed away in 2010.
