Louise Bourgeois, Cell (Hands and Mirror),1995. Marble, metal, and mirror, 63 x 48 x 45 inches (160 x 121.9 x 114.3 cm). Gift of Barbara Lee, The Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women. Photo by Charles
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This Saturday at Community Day we asked you to show some love for your favorite work in First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA with Hearts for Art, and the results are in! Here are your top 11 favorite works (there was a tie for 10th!), with Cornelia Parker’s Hanging Fire (Suspected Arson) taking the lead by almost 100 votes!
The best part? You can come and visit them for a few more weeks! First Light will be on view through Jan 16, 2017.
- Cornelia Parker, Hanging Fire (Suspected Arson)
- Nick Cave, Soundsuit
- Ragnar Kjartansson, The Man
- Ellen Gallagher, DeLuxe
- Kara Walker, The Nigger Huck Finn Pursues Happiness Beyond the Narrow Constraints of Your Overdetermined Thesis on Freedom–Drawn and Quartered by Mister Kara Walkerberry, with Condolences to the Authors
- Paul Chan, 1st
Light - Doris Salcedo, Atrabiliarios
- Mona Hatoum, Pin Rug
- Françoise Grossen, Inchworm
- Anne Collier, Open Book #3 (Island Wilderness)
- Louise Bourgeois, Cell (Hands and Mirror)
(Also snagging some sneaky votes were the view from the John Hancock Founders Gallery, Gillian Wearing’s Rock ‘n’ Roll 70, and several works on view in The Artist’s Museum.)
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