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Lot 23
LIZA LOU(B. 1969)Ruffles, circa 1995
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Head of Department, Post-War & Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Contemporary Art (US)
Made in California (US)
LIZA LOU (B. 1969)
Ruffles, circa 1995
signed in glass beads 'LIZA LOU' (upper center)
polyester and glass beads
13 1/2 x 9 x 7 1/2 in.
34.3 x 22.9 x 19.2 cm.
signed in glass beads 'LIZA LOU' (upper center)
polyester and glass beads
13 1/2 x 9 x 7 1/2 in.
34.3 x 22.9 x 19.2 cm.
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Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner
Exhibited
New York, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, A Labor of Love, 20 January-21 April 1996
Literature
Lou, Liza, Liza Lou Kitchen, John Natsoulas Press, 1996, illustrated on the cover
The present and following lots are a part of Liza Lou's Kitchen, a tenacious and fastidious endeavor to construct a kitchen entirely with lustrous beads to elevate the history and impact of domestic spaces. In these spectacular works, meticulously beaded by hand over the course of many years, Liza Lou articulates the contours of domestic life and its labor by "[enshrining] objects and environments to describe the American dream" (Liza Lou, The Marvelous Obsession of Liza Lou, p. 15). Taking the bead as her primary medium, an object surrounded by its own ritualistic history, Lou makes a shrine of domestic life and transforms everyday objects into something marvelous and complex, paying homage to the women who "tried to fulfill [the suburban] ideal and likely became disillusioned in the process" (Robert L. Pincus, The Marvelous Obsession of Liza Lou, p. 18).
The Kitchen was recently exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art and is included in their permanent collection. The artist has exhibited her work locally and internationally in London, Seoul New York, Hong Kong, Paris, Los Angeles, and New York. Lou's work can be found in the permanent collections of the De Young Museum, San Francisco; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; La Fundación Jumex; Mexico City; Museum of Modern Art; New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris; amongst many more. A second major monograph of Lou's work was published by Rizzoli in 2022.
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