Liza Lou Monograph, Limited Edition, Signed by the Artist

A comprehensive new monograph on the critically-acclaimed work of Liza Lou, whose practice considers themes of community, labor, craft, and materiality. Published by Rizzoli Electa. The publication features contributions by Glenn Adamson, writer and curator; Julia Bryan-Wilson, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley; Dr. Cathleen Chaffee, Chief Curator of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Elisabeth Sherman, Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and a conversation between Liza Lou and renowned artist Carrie Mae Weems. 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 labor, 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,