Lehmann Maupin is pleased to present Liza Lou: Classification and Nomenclature of Clouds as the inaugural exhibition of the gallery’s new, additional location at West 24th Street and Tenth Avenue. This exhibition, her first in New York City in over a decade, will encompass painting, sculpture, drawing, and video. A continuation of the exhibition will be featured at Lehmann Maupin’s West 22nd Street location, with a room dedicated to an installation of paintings and sculpture from Lou’s Terra series.

Liza Lou’s sculptures, room-size installations, and performances have broken boundaries between art and craft, sculpture and painting since the unveiling of Kitchen (1991–1996) at the New Museum in New York in 1996. Eschewing the well-traveled path in art school to pursue a self-guided exploration of more traditional media like painting and sculpture, Lou forged an original vision. A life-size replica of a kitchen in the midst of a museum gallery would hardly cause a stir, were it not for the fact that the work, now in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, is made entirely of glass beads. In the years since, Lou’s work has continued to break boundaries as it has developed from room-size tableaux taken from everyday life—such as Backyard (1996–1999) and Trailer (1998–2000)—and works no less monumental yet distinctly more sober in their themes, such as Security Fence (2005) and Cell (2004-2006), to her recent abstract sculptures and wall reliefs. Throughout these shifts in her practice, process, labor, and beauty are always inextricably linked to the meaning of the work.