The Skateroom w/ Metropolitan Museum of Art
one skateboard deck
7-ply Canadian Maplewood with screen-print
31 h. x 8 inches (80 x 20 cm)
mounting hardware included
edition of 100 (screen-printed signature on verso)
© 2022 The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / SABAM
object description
This skateboard deck comes ready to hang with mounting hardware and is part of a limited edition of 100. The image is a detail from a series of paintings entitled Femme Maison (1946) by Louise Bourgeois.
The title Femme Maison roughly translates to "housewife" as this series serves as a critique of the gendered restraints placed upon women at the time. These paintings feature the bodies of naked women with houses as heads to emphasize how these domestic roles occupied a space that was familiar yet entrapping. These paintings became especially iconic during the second wave feminist movement of the 1960s.
Our partners at The Skateroom, who collaborated with The Metropolitan Museum of Art to make this edition, donate a significant part of their profit to support social initiatives that make the world a better place.