"In an era when many younger artists struggle with issues of heroism and the weight of achievements past, Los Angeles-based painter Laura Owens seems to have opened her umbrella and floated over the art historical baggage collecting on the tarmac. Owens borrows where she pleases—from modernist movements past such as Color Field, Op Art, and Pattern and Decoration, from European painters like Rousseau and Toulouse-Lautrec, from anonymous mediums such as textile and embroidery. Art historical references and any sort of imagery, high or low, that Owens feels like incorporating are co-opted with finesse and a clear-eyed sense of no-fuss entitlement, in service to a larger goal: her own precise vision for what makes a painting pleasurable to behold."
The Believer
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vimeo: Untitled Edition for the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, The Finley, January 29 - April 8, 2012
YouTube: 12 Paintings by Laura Owens at 356 S. Mission Road, Laura Owens at Crown Point Press, Laura Owens
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