Liza Lou: Desire Lines

Lehmann Maupin presents a solo show of Liza Lou.

Desire Lines—the title of the exhibition—is a term commonly used in landscape architecture to explain unplanned paths created by people (or animals) that move instinctually through an environment.

Pigmented paths created by the oil of the skin have become part subject and part medium of her closely woven paintings and installations, evoking conceptual and material “desire lines”.

On view 10 works that poetically illustrate Lou’s engagement with the natural environment, abstraction, and her own work spanning her 30 years’ practice that melds elements of both fine art and craft.