Here is some information... could find some images - but not of the whole
kitchen - but then I am a real novice when it comes to searching.... the
blurb is from a Smithsonian site - the 'kitchen' will be there in a couple
of years...
Ellen
Liza Lou's Kitchen and Back Yard
September 12, 2003-January 25, 2004
After her popular appearance at the Renwick Gallery in fall 2000, Liza
Lou returns to
Washington D.C., with her two monumental beaded environments, Kitchen
(1995) and
Back Yard (1997).
The 168-square-foot Kitchen, completed in December 1995, brought Lou
fame almost
overnight. From the dish-laden, overflowing, turquoise-colored sink, to
the shimmering
cherry pie cooling on the oven rack just below it, to the glittering
dust balls beneath the
refrigerator, Lou beaded every detail by hand. Back Yard, completed in
two years with the
help of several hundred volunteers, covers 600 square feet, contains
250,000 blades of
beaded grass and consists of more than 30 million glass beads.
By exploiting the conventional classification of beads as feminine, Liza
Lou asks her
audience to reconsider their notions of feminine archetypes, gender
roles and ultimately
American culture. She places her work squarely within the realm of pop
art and stresses
the element of fun inherent in her beaded environments. Her vision of
America is one in
which material culture has reached its apex, a view that is
simultaneously witty and slightly
satirical.
