In Wonderland

This weekend I finally got to check out the fantastic exhibit "In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States" at LACMA. I've been looking forward to seeing this ever since I heard that they would be showing works by some of my favorite artists like Frida Kahlo and Louise Bourgeois. I also discovered artists I never heard of before like Kay Sage, Remedios Varo, Rosa Rolanda and many others.  Brilliant exhibit that took me on a wild, beautiful, intense, disturbing, emotional, and funny journey. Go women artists!!!

One of Frida's first large-scale pieces (and one of my faves) depicting her broken heart from her divorce with Diego Rivera.

"Self portrait with thorn necklace and hummingbird"

and this is one of a series of works by Louise Bourgeois called "Femme Maison" depicting the artist feeling trapped in her domestic life.

On a side note, this is Chris Burden's "Metropolis II" exhibit which is also at LACMA. It's a kinetic sculpture of a modern city complete with highways and miniature cars and trains speeding through it. Totally awesome!