Tuesday 1 October 2013

Liza Lou: Colour Field at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

For twenty years, the glass bead has been Liza Lou’s primary art-making material. Lou transforms the possibilities of this tiny unit of color and embellishment just as she expands the meaning of the objects she recreates.  
 

 
Color Field (2010-2013), her newest floor-bound sculpture, features an expansive prism of color. The gridded rainbow is composed of uniform lengths of wire, each threaded with a single shade of beads. The sheer expanse of the piece conveys exuberance, underscored by the work’s bounty: its multitude of colors, beads, and touch. Pulsing and pixelated, Color Field’s complex mosaic foregrounds its construction and the network of hands which helped shape it.
 
Liza Lou: Color Field is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

https://www.mcasd.org/exhibitions/liza-lou-color-field

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