
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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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…
View full creditsCornelia Parker, Hanging Fire (Suspected Arson), (detail) 1999. Charcoal, wire, pins, and nails, 14…
View full creditsNick Cave, Soundsuit, 2009. Mixed media, 96 x 26 x 20 inches (246.4 x 66 x 50.8 cm). Promised gift of Steve Corkin. Photo by James Prinz Photography. Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. © 2016 Nick Cave
Ragnar Kjartansson, The Man, 2010. Single-channel video (color, sound; 49:00 minutes). Gift of Graham and Ann Gund to The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Gund Gallery at Kenyon College. Courtes…
View full creditsPhoto by Natasha Moustache
Ellen Gallagher, DeLuxe, 2004-2005. Photogravure, etching, aquatint, and drypoints with lithography, screenprint, embossing, tattoo-machine engraving, laser cutting, and chine collé; and additions of Plasticine, paper collage, enamel, varnish, gouache, pencil, oil, polymer, watercolor, pomade, velvet, glitter,…
View full creditsFrançoise Grossen, Inchworm, 1971. Industrial cotton piping cord, approximately 2 x 20 x 13 feet (61 x 609.8 x 396.3 cm). Gift of the artist, in honor of Jenelle Porter. Photo by Charles Mayer Photography. © 2016 Françoise Grossen
Doris Salcedo, Atrabiliarios, 1996. Drywall, shoes, cow bladder, and surgical thread, 47 x 83 1/16 inches (119.4 x 211 cm). Gift of Barbara Lee, The Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women. Courtesy Alexander and Bonin. © Doris Salcedo
Anne Collier, Open Book #3 (Island Wilderness), from the series Open Book, 2010. Chromogenic color print, 47 1/4 × 62 1/8 inches (120 × 157.8 cm). Gift of Fotene Demoulas and Tom Coté. Court…
View full creditsInstallation view, First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2016-17. Photo by Charles Mayer Photography.
Mona Hatoum, Pin Rug, 1998-99, Stainless steel pins, canvas, and glue, 1 3/8 x 47 13/16 x 73 5/8 inches (3.5 x 121.5 x 187 cm). Gift of Barbara Lee, The Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women. Cou…
View full creditsPaul Chan, 1st Light, 2005. Projected digital animation (color, silent; 14:00 minutes). Gift of Kimberly and James Pallotta. Courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali. Photo by Jean Vong. © P…
View full creditsLouise 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…
View full creditsCornelia Parker, Hanging Fire (Suspected Arson), (detail) 1999. Charcoal, wire, pins, and nails, 14…
View full creditsThis 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.
(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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