brainsex paintings – Little Bristling Soul

Robert Gober, Untitled (Big Torso), 1990, beeswax, pigment, human hair, ca. 24 x 18 x 11 in., Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco

Rachel Whiteread, Untitled torso , 1991, cast dental plaster, 7.6 x 22.9 x 15.2 cm (3 x 9 x 6 in)

Patricia Piccinini, Egg/Head, 2016, Silicone, human hair

Alina Szapocznikow, Ventre (“Belly”), circa 1968, repeatedly thermoformed plastic, 50 x 50 x 20 cm

Hans Bellmer, The Doll, 1936, reconstructed 1965, Painted aluminium on brass base

Sarah Lucas, Sex Baby Bed Base (detail), 2000, chicken, T-shirt, lemons, and hanger, 70 9/10 × 52 3/5 in 180 × 133.5 cm

Berlinde De Bruyckere, Muffled Cry of the Unrealisable Desire, 2009-2010 (wax wood, glass, epoxy, iron)

Tim Hawkinson, Torso, 2018, Shopping bags, urethane foam

Louise Bourgeois. Untitled 1998. Fabric and steel, 10 x 25 ½ x 18 inches.

Kiki Smith, Untitled (Upper Torso), paper mache with graphite, Nepal paper, marbelized paper, cloth, muslin, newspaper and wood, 16 by 18 by 8 ¼ in.

from Blood Math by Peggy Phelan and Adrian Heathfield

from The Pain Scale by Eula Biss

Simone Weil, Gravity & Grace

Anne Carson, Eros, The Bittersweet

Fanny Howe, The Future is Like Magic: A Notebook

Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

Jean Fautrier, The Eyes; Paris, musée d’Art moderne de la Ville.

Sue Williams, Irresistible, rubber, 1992, text on sculpture reads: Thanks for the beer. Love is forgiving. If you don’t care about yourself, how do you expect others to–you dumb bitch. I didn’t do that. Have you been seeing someone–huh slut. I think you like it mom. Look what you made me do. The No. 1 cause of injury to women is battery (men) Course no one asks what the women did. He’s under a lot of uh———oh do. So uptight. Can you find something to ram in her mouth? We don’t know if she enjoyed it or not. This case remains a mystery.

Kiki Smith, Blood Pool , 1993, wax, gauze and pigment

Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, bronze, 1950-1960

Hannah Wilke, Untitled, latex and terracotta, early 1970s

Louise Bourgeois, Le Regard, latex and cloth, 1966

Tracey Emin, Death Mask, 2002, bronze Vitrine: 12.99 x 11.1 x 11.5 in. (33 x 28.2 x 29.2cm) Mask: 7.68 x 6.89 x 9.25 in. (19.5 x 17.5 x 23.5cm)

Paul Thek, Pyramid Self-Portrait, 1966-67, Wax, metal, wood, Plexiglas, 58 x 32 x 39.4

Constantin Brancusi, Mademoiselle Pogany (II), 1920, photograph

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Rona Pondick, Mouse, 2002-06, stainless steel, 6 ½ x 9 ½ x 17 inches

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Ecstasy of St Teresa of Avila, 1647-52 (detail), marble and gilded bronze

Louise Bourgeois, Femme Maison, 1983, marble

Kiki Smith, Untitled (The Sitter), 1992.
Robert Gober, Crouching Man, 1982.