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Liza Lou
(American, b.1969)
Light Bulb
1999
Hand-applied colored glass beads over cast polyester resin
Edition of 10
Signed, dated, numbered and titled on an Artist’s Certificate
Overall: 5 x 2 ¾ x 2 ¾ inches (13 x 7 x 7 cm)
Price on request
Executed in 1999, the present work and edition was created by the artist to benefit the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Provenance:
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Private Collection, New York
Dranoff Fine Art, New York
Acquired directly from the above
Note:
According to the artist:
“There is the association between light bulbs and ideas — Light Bulb is deliberately misshapen and was made to be nipple-like and heavy. Light Bulb is about the awkwardness and difficulty of ideas and the surprising weight of the smallest undertaking.”