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2018 · réf. 204577 — New York NY: Lehmann Maupin Gallery 2018. Softcover. VG. Quarto. Softcover. Illustrated covers. 56 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm. "The title of the exhibition is inspired by amateur meteorologist Luke Howard's Essay on the Modification of Clouds which met with great acclaim when it was presented as a lecture in 1802. The poet Mark Strand recently wrote "Clouds are thoughts without words" yet Howard was able to give names to the ungraspable. By classifying and naming the clouds he influenced painters and poets alike. Observing daily atmospheric phenomena in the two cities where the artist divides her time--Durban South Africa where clouds are often tumultuous and Los Angeles where skies are mostly blue--Lou began to make cloud paintings en plein air. This exhibition features the resulting monumentally scaled work The Clouds 2015-2018 recently exhibited in the 21st Biennale of Sydney. Stretching 50 feet across by 23 feet high in Lehmann Maupin's new gallery space The Clouds is comprised of a grid of 600 beaded cloths which are hand sewn in her Durban studio. These cloths become the surface upon which the artist paints and then partially smashes the beads away with a hammer revealing the paint-stained network of thread beneath. The materiality of the cloths is in stark contrast with the groundlessness of passing clouds."--Exhibition press release. Lehmann Maupin Gallery paperback books