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Liz Young
The Birth/Death Chair with Rawhide Shoes, Bones and Organs1993

Not on view
Mixed-media sculpture installation: a rough-hewn wooden chair with metal rod joinery and a leather strap, paired with a chain of cast dark-metal and bone-like forms spreading across a wooden gallery floor

Liz Young, The Birth/Death Chair with Rawhide Shoes, Bones and Organs, 1993, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Modern and Contemporary Art Council, 1992 Art Here and Now Purchase, with additional funds provided by the Betty Asher Memorial Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Liz Young
United States, 1958 - 2020
Title
The Birth/Death Chair with Rawhide Shoes, Bones and Organs
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1993
Medium
Chair, rawhide shoes, and cast iron, bronze and lead
Dimensions
48 x 84 x 36 in. (121.92 x 213.36 x 91.44 cm)
Credit Line
Modern and Contemporary Art Council, 1992 Art Here and Now Purchase, with additional funds provided by the Betty Asher Memorial Fund
Accession Number
AC1995.86.1.1-.4
Classification
Collages
Collecting Area
Contemporary Art
Selected Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.

  • Dawsey, Jill, and Isabel Casso. For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability. San Diego, CA: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 2024.
Copyright
© Liz Young