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Jan 11, 2017 · Jan. 11, 2017. Laura Owens, one of the most celebrated painters of her generation and a force in the Los Angeles art world, will have her first major New York retrospective at the Whitney Museum ...
Dec 14, 2014 · MoMA Now: Highlights from The Museum of Modern Art—Ninetieth Anniversary Edition Introduction by Glenn D. Lowry, 2019 Hardcover, 424 pages. Buy from the Design Store. The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World Laura Hoptman, 2014 Exhibition catalogue, Hardcover, 176 pages. View the exhibition.
Laura Owens (born 1970) is an American painter, gallery owner and educator. She emerged in the late 1990s from the Los Angeles art scene. She emerged in the late 1990s from the Los Angeles art scene. She is known for large-scale paintings that combine a variety of art historical references and painterly techniques.
Dec 6, 2019 · Last year, Laura Owens went big. Her midcareer survey, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, filled six large galleries and a couple of long hallways at the Museum of Contemporary Art ...
Nov 21, 2017 · Mining the history of painting while exploring the boundaries between representation and abstraction, Laura Owens employs a diverse source of references in her captivating paintings. Born in Ohio and educated at the Rhode Island School of Design and Cal Arts, the painter has lived and worked in Los Angeles for more than 20 years.
Laura Owens’s wide-ranging, ever-inventive practice embraces myriad styles and ideas as it attempts to push painting forward, one canvas at a time. While her work ranges from faux-naïf figurations to gridded abstractions, Owens has consistently used …. Read more. See all past shows and fair booths. High auction record (US$1.8m)
The background of this untitled work reproduces a group of personal ads from the Berkeley Barb, an underground newspaper published in California throughout the 1960s and ’70s that was well known for its sexually explicit classified section. Owens imported her source material to a computer, generated a stencil, and transferred the text to canvas.
