Lehmann Maupin returns to ADAA: The Art Show, with a solo presentation of important works by Los Angeles-based artist Liza Lou. The gallery’s focused presentation marks the first showing of In Medias Res (2017), which will be displayed alongside other never-before-seen works from the artist’s archive. This curated selection highlights Lou’s decades-long engagement with repetition, meditative process, and materiality using glass beads as both subject and primary material. Coinciding with ADAA: The Art Show, Lou’s landmark installation Kitchen (1991–1996)–which belongs to the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art–is currently on view at the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa. In 2024, the Brooklyn Museum will install Lou’s iconic Trailer (1997-99), where it will remain permanently on view. Lou will also open a solo exhibition of new work at Lehmann Maupin New York.

Throughout her decades-long career, Liza Lou has challenged and expanded the boundaries between the fine and applied arts by introducing glass beads as a conceptual medium. Early in her career, she forged an original, Feminist-inflected vision using beads as an index of time and process in figurative, room-sized sculpture and installation works that rendered labor radically visible on both formal and conceptual registers. For the past fifteen years, Lou has turned her focus to abstraction and repetitive processes to engage with art history while exploring the conceptual and metaphoric potential of absence and materiality.