Liza Lou

Security Fence

, 2005–2007
Liza Lou

Security Fence, 2005–2007

Steel and glass beads

335.3 x 392.2 x 396.2 cm

Los Angeles–based artist Liza Lou makes sculpture, paintings, drawings and room–size environments that reflect on issues of women’s labor and the connotation of the domestic as an exclusively female realm. While decoration plays an important part in of her practice, Lou creates painstaking work that requires countless hours of an artisanal–like expertise. Her Security Fence signals a point of connection between glamour and socio–political and cultural inequalities.