Owens, Laura /
Rothkopf, Scott,1976-author,editor.
Owens, Laura.Paintings.Selections.
Whitney Museum of American Art,host institution,issuing body.
Dallas Museum of Art,host institution.
Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.),host institution.
A richly illustrated, expansive mid-career survey of the stand-out American artist's pioneering and influential work. Since the early 1990s, Laura Owens (b. 1970) has challenged traditional assumptions about figuration and abstraction in her pioneering-and at times controversial-approach to painting. This inventive mid-career survey of Owens's work takes the form of an expansive five-hundred-page book, interweaving writing on the artist's work with excerpts from a wide variety of texts. Including an essay by Scott Rothkopf, this richly illustrated volume presents Owens's paintings within a rich trove of archival imagery that includes exhibition announcements, installation photographs, personal correspondence, and source material, most of which has never before been published. Reflections by fellow artists, collaborators, assistants, dealers, family, and friends contribute an array of perspectives on Owens's working practice and her numerous achievements.  Exhibition: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (11.10.2017-04.02.2018).
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 10, 2017-February 4, 2018; Dallas Museum of Art, March 25-July 29, 2018 and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, November 2018-March 2019.
Includes a sheet of stickers loosely inserted.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Adam D. Weinberg -- Introduction / Scott Rothkopf -- Oral histories. Childhood / Carol Hendrickson -- RISD / Deborah Kass -- CalArts / Alex Slade -- Rosamund Felsen exhibition / Laura Owens -- Gavin Brown's enterprise exhibition / T. J. Wilcox -- Teaching / Eric Palgon -- Patrick Painter exhibition with Jorge Pardo / Mungo Thomson -- LA, Chicago, New York / Laura Owens -- China art objects galleries exhibition / Scott Reeder -- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum residency / Laura Owens -- Cavepainting / Chris Ofili -- LA MOCA survey / Paul Schimmel -- Bookmaking / Laura Owens -- Clock paintings / Edgar Bryan -- Pavement Karaoke / Calvin Marcus -- Twelve Paintings / Andrew Cannon -- 356 Mission / Ethan Swan -- Flamethrowers reading / Rachel Kushner -- Capitain Petzel exhibition / Henry Bryan -- Ten Paintings / David Berezin -- Whitney survey / Scott Rothkopf -- Essays. Tennis, trigonometry, tornadoes: a Midwestern boyhood / David Foster Wallace -- "when i was a young soldier for the revolution" : coming to voice / bell hooks -- Triumphs, setbacks, rear exits, and cease fires: some aesthetic issues concerning Albert Oehlen, and some architectural and musical comparisons / Diedrich Diederichsen -- How should a painting do? / Bruce Hainley -- Flag Girl / Jenny Jaskey -- The architect & the housewife / Frances Stark -- Our aesthetic categories / Sianne Ngai -- Somewhere else completely / Francine Prose -- The creation of femininity / Rozsika Parker -- On Laura Owen's idea of edges / Kirsty Bell -- Fallen fruit / Jonathan Gold -- Fuck Seth Price / Seth Price -- Who used wallpaper and where? / Gill Saunders -- Talking back / Gavin Delahunty -- Selected bibliography -- Exhibition history -- Acknowledgments.
A richly illustrated, expansive mid-career survey of the stand-out American artist's pioneering and influential work. Since the early 1990s, Laura Owens (b. 1970) has challenged traditional assumptions about figuration and abstraction in her pioneering-and at times controversial-approach to painting. This inventive mid-career survey of Owens's work takes the form of an expansive five-hundred-page book, interweaving writing on the artist's work with excerpts from a wide variety of texts. Including an essay by Scott Rothkopf, this richly illustrated volume presents Owens's paintings within a rich trove of archival imagery that includes exhibition announcements, installation photographs, personal correspondence, and source material, most of which has never before been published. Reflections by fellow artists, collaborators, assistants, dealers, family, and friends contribute an array of perspectives on Owens's working practice and her numerous achievements.  Exhibition: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (11.10.2017-04.02.2018).
Owens, Laura
Owens, Laura
Owens, Laura.