Art Book Review: Beading the World Anew with Liza Lou

THINK BIG
March 4, 2011


"Man" by Liza Lou (2002)

NEW YORK CITY-- In Rizzoli's newest Liza Lou, the first monograph examining this Christian artist’s career, we see how Lou takes the craft of beading to a mind-boggling and soul-expanding extreme in works such as Man (from 2002; shown above), in which a man falls backward in epiphanal ecstasy with a dove, the classic symbol of the Holy Spirit, emerging from his mouth—all done as a fiberglass sculpture festooned with glittering glass beads. Through over 200 color photographs showing in fine detail the meticulous magic of Lou’s beads and a series of thought-provoking essays, Liza Lou will have you seeing and believing that this sometimes ugly world can be born again in beauty. [link]