BILLIE BOURGEOIS
GALLERY
Bourgeois was born in New Orleans, Louisiana during WWII., the oldest of six children, each of whom are musicians or artists. Growing up with stifling humidity, rich cuisine, and a strong experience of family created the unique environment for nurturing creative fluency. Her spiritual upbringing planted a sense of the sacred and spiritual in her, and provided fertile ground for an already natural instinct for art.
For Bourgeois there must be a relationship between form and content. She is always concerned with the composition and formal aspects of the work, balanced with subjects derived from nature and intuition. She is most at home with suggestions of gesture and strong personal mark making. Her goal is response to the subject, not always representation. She wants her marks and her palette to reveal her inner impulse.
She is at ease with a variety of mediums and color palettes. Drawing is her natural language from which her painting ideas spring.
