Los Angeles-based artist Liza Lou shares her monumental work at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Kitchen is a full-scale reproduction of her mother's kitchen which she has encrusted with glass beads. The project took five years to complete and is a comment on the unsung work of women throughout time. Lou also describes this project as an argument for the "dignity of labor”.  

The striking elements of this project can be found in Lou's attention to detail; she appliqués rainbow-colored beads to a found refrigerator and oven, as well as using beads and paper mâché to recreate everyday items such as cereal boxes, a shopping list, and the daily paper. 

Kitchen is a glitzy, pop-art inspired art project that Lou uses to scrutinize her own identity and how the domestication of women lies at the dark heart of the suburban American dream.