Kelvinator Art

Stepping into Liza Lou’s art installations “Back Yard” and “Kitchen,” pictured above, is like walking into somebody’s domestic hallucination. Constructed of masses of colored glass beads, they glow and even shimmer with an unnatural beauty. It’s like being in a weird MTV video world where even the Captain Crunch cereal shines like gemstones.

The show, which closed its run at the Santa Monica Museum of Art at Bergamot Station last weekend, is the kind of perspective-altering experience that makes you look at everything afresh. You know something? Even without a dense covering of gem-like beads, an old refrigerator really is a pretty cool-looking piece of sculpture.