Bio

After all these years of representing the horizon line in paint, I see it as a playful paradox inherent to life on this big round planet of ours, and something that we all long for.  The visible yet non-existent line that describes a curve is also the fictive space where as far as we can see reveals that there is yet more to come.

Louise LeBourgeois was born in New Orleans, and grew up in Oxford, England and Clemson, South Carolina before moving to Chicago at age 14. She and her husband Steven Carrelli have lived and worked in Italy several times. She teaches at Columbia College Chicago.