""Colour, for me, is this ineffable search. I think about the laughter of colour, the necessity of colour, the way in which colour offers a relief to the darkness that surrounds us.""
""I like the limitations of ready-made colour. I work with beads and oil paint straight out of the tube. I start my day in the studio by making a drawing with oil sticks and I draw until I feel my brain makes a click from logical brain to wild brain; once I'm there, the rest of my day is freestyle.""
""As I matured, I narrowed my means and began to use materiality and beads as a conceptual project-to question what is and what is not considered a valid art material, and by extension who is and who is not included in the canon.""
""In the past few years, something shifted, and there is this headlong love affair with colour itself; I'm weighing its essence and making side-by-side comparisons between my material and viscous pigment as I work with beads and paint.""
Liza Lou, based in San Fernando Valley, California, gained recognition for her bead-covered work, Kitchen. After 15 years collaborating with women in South Africa, she returned to solitary work, merging oil painting with glass beads. Lou expresses a deep connection to color, viewing it as a necessary relief from darkness. Her artistic process involves drawing to transition from logical to creative thinking. She explores the validity of art materials and the inclusion of diverse voices in the art world, while her recent works reflect a renewed passion for color.
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