Liza Lou

November 6, 2009 in Artists, Museums and galleries | 3 comments

Deitch Gallery in New York City has images of Liza Lou’s work online.  In the “Selected Works” are photographs of some of her bead-encrusted works, from people to crushed beer cans to the inside of a trailer.

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  1. Sylvia on November 7, 2009 at 10:04 pm

    I have seen some of these pieces, the kitchen, the broom and scoop, dishes in the sink with blue water out the faucet, the backyard with the barbecue. In general, mostly her “woman’s work” type of pieces.

    They are overwhelming up close, and somewhat kitschy.

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    1. Dulcey Heller on November 8, 2009 at 9:16 pm

      I’ve only seen them in pictures – which subdues the “en masse” feeling you would get seeing the pieces in person, especially the big installations. I am sure it looks kitschy – maybe part of the point?

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  2. Sylvia on November 9, 2009 at 12:32 pm

    When they had the backyard in Santa Monica in a museum, Lou had used everyone, children, adult volunteers and even the museum guards to string the thousand and thousands of grass blades on wire from green beads by the kilograms.

    Her genius is in making these installations portable so they can travel, get reassembled with some ease, and be shown/seen in many places.

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