In Collaboration: Interview with Liza Lou
By Brittany Dale
Portrait of Liza Lou. Photo by Mick Haggerty. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York/Hong Kong.
Through her trademark medium of glass beads, Los Angeles-based artist Liza Lou, challenges conventional artistic methods. Lou rose to prominence through her monumental sculptural installation, Kitchen (1991–96) for which she meticulously covered the entire surface of a life-sized American kitchen in tiny glass beads. In 2005, she established a studio in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, to work with local artisans, and continues to divide her time between South Africa and her studios in California.
