Liza Lou: Trailer

Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, 11238, New York City

September 13, 2024 – December 31, 2027

Peer into a mysterious scene within Trailer by artist Liza Lou. In her paintings, sculptures, and installations rigorously assembled from glass beads, Lou interrogates notions of power, myth, and gender in the United States. On public view for the first time in a decade, Trailer is a major addition to the Brooklyn Museum's collection. The work fills the interior of a 1949 Spartan Royal Mansion mobile trailer. Inside, everything is rendered in glass beads—furniture, typewriter, magazines, guitar, guns, and whiskey—demanding close looking at both intricacy and allusions. Like pixels, the beads dazzle and coalesce into shapes, forming a sinister spectacle examining masculinity, despair, isolation, and obsession.