Liza Lou first gained attention in 1996 when her room-sized sculpture Kitchen was shown at the New Museum in New York. Representing five years of individual labour, this groundbreaking work subverted standards of art by introducing glass beads as a fine art material. The project blurred the rigid boundary between fine art and craft, and established Lou's long-standing exploration of materiality, process, and beauty. Working within a craft métier has led the artist to work in a variety of socially engaged settings, from community groups in Los Angeles, to a collective she founded in Durban, South Africa in 2005, to a women's prison in Belm, Brazil, and a bead embroidery collective in Mumbai, India. Over the past 15 years, Lou has focused on a poetic approach to abstraction as a way to highlight the process under-lying her work. In this comprehensive volume that considers the entirety of her singular vision, curators, art historians, and artists offer important perspectives on the breadth of her work.
| ISBN: | 9780847870752 |
| Publication date: | 6th September 2022 |
| Author: | Glenn Adamson, Julia BryanWilson, Cathleen Chaffee, Elisabeth Sherman, Carrie Mae Weems |
| Illustrator: | Liza Lou |
| Publisher: | Rizzoli Electa |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 295 pages |
| Genres: |
Sculpture Individual artists, art monographs |
Liza Lou first gained attention in 1996 when her room-sized sculpture Kitchen was shown at the New Museum in New York. Representing five years of individual labour, this groundbreaking work subverted standards of art by introducing glass beads as a fine art material. The project blurred the rigid boundary between fine art and craft, and established Lou's long-standing exploration of materiality, process, and beauty. Working within a craft métier has led the artist to work in a variety of socially engaged settings, from community groups in Los Angeles, to a collective she founded in Durban, South Africa in 2005, to a women's prison in Belm, Brazil, and a bead embroidery collective in Mumbai, India. Over the past 15 years, Lou has focused on a poetic approach to abstraction as a way to highlight the process under-lying her work. In this comprehensive volume that considers the entirety of her singular vision, curators, art historians, and artists offer important perspectives on the breadth of her work.
Liza Lou features in the following genres: Sculpture, Individual artists, art monographs
Liza Lou is available in Hardback
Liza Lou was written by Glenn Adamson, Julia BryanWilson, Cathleen Chaffee, Elisabeth Sherman, Carrie Mae Weems and published by Rizzoli Electa
Liza Lou has 295 pages