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Liza Lou (born 1969) is an American visual artist best known for producing large scale sculpture using glass beads. ==Life== Liza Lou was born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles.〔 Lou came to prominence with the work ''Kitchen'' (1991-1996), a to-scale and fully equipped replica of a kitchen covered in beads. The work took five years to complete and was followed with ''Back Yard'' (1996-1999), for which Lou enlisted the help of volunteers to recreate grass in a model of a backyard. ''Kitchen'' is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and ''Back Yard'' is in the permanent collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris. In 2005, Lou moved from Los Angeles to Durban, South America. In Durban, she created many diverse creations, with the help of 50 South African beadworkers. Starting in 2006, Lou started creating one of her most notable works, ''Continuous Mile'', with the help of a team of Zulu women. ''Continuous Mile'' is composed of more than 4.5 million black beads, strewn into a cylindrical shape. The theme of this work is "work." As Lou states, "The idea was to employ as many people as possible, using the slowest possible technique in order to engage a community, and to build homes in the process of making an art work." Lou won the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2002 and the Anonymous Was a Woman Artist Award in 2013. She currently lives and works in KwaZulu-Natal and Los Angeles. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Liza Lou」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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