Laura Owens

Laura Owens is a painter and installation artist very firmly practicing in the tradition of the post-conceptual art generation. Using bright, color-infused imagery that depicts landscapes, couples kissing, blooming flowers, and dogs howling at the moon, Owens is something of a modern day John William Waterhouse. Working mostly in paint, Owens' compositions are often reminiscent of the wide, rolling emptiness of Song scholar-paintings, while sharing their tiny exactness with needlepoint. Portraying worlds that are full of mythology and bursting with possibility, Owens is a model for a generation of artists who embrace the constant reinvention of the medium of painting. Praising the artist, MOCA/LA curator Paul Schimmel has declared: "Hers is an art predicated on balancing intuition and intellect, encouraging multiple voices and leveling hierarchies."

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4 Reasons to Collect Laura Owen's 2010 Aquatint
4 Reasons to Collect Laura Owen's 2010 Aquatint
From artists like David Hockney, Louise Bourgeois, Carolee Schnee
From artists like David Hockney, Louise Bourgeois, Carolee Schnee
Everything You Need to Know About the Day Sales
Everything You Need to Know About the Day Sales
Laura Hoptman's Oral History of New York Painting
Laura Hoptman's Oral History of New York Painting