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Home>Yes No Maybe Introduction>Yes No Maybe Maybe>Yes No Maybe Owens

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Exhibition Introduction

Note to the ReaderAcknowledgments

IntroductionKeithJohnLeslieSelf-Portrait

IntroductionTouched RedGreenCombinationHigh Green Version 1

Introduction17 Drawings by ThoreauSeven Day Diary (Not Knowing)Changes and DisappearancesWhere R=RyoanjiFireThe Missing Stone 75 StonesEninkaStonesWhere There is Where There

IntroductionAnne ApplebyPia FriesDarren AlmondSusan MiddletonJoel FisherBrad BrownTom Marioni

IntroductionMamma AnderssonSol LeWittFred WilsonRobert BechtleKiki Smith

IntroductionJulie MehretuWayne ThiebaudJockum NordströmTomma AbtsNathan OliveiraChris Ofili

IntroductionPat SteirLaura OwensWayne ThiebaudAmy Sillman

# Laura Owens

Laura Owens, Untitled (LO 425), 2010
*Untitled (LO 425)* (working proof)2010color softground etching, spitbite aquatint, and sugarliftaquatint with colored-pencil additions and artist’snotationsplate: 28 3⁄4 × 41 1⁄4 (73 × 104.8)sheet: 37 × 49 5⁄8 (94 × 126.1)Crown Point PressCourtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise

Laura Owens, Untitled (LO 425), 2010
*Untitled (LO 425)*2010color softground etching, spitbite aquatint, and sugarliftaquatintplate: 28 3⁄4 × 41 1⁄4 (73 × 104.8)sheet: 37 1⁄4 × 49 1⁄4 (94.6 × 125.1)Crown Point PressCourtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise

Laura Owens, Untitled (LO 425), 2010
Detail, lower left, *Untitled (LO 425)* (working proof)2010color softground etching, spitbite aquatint, and sugarliftaquatint with colored-pencil additions and artist’snotationsplate: 28 3⁄4 × 41 1⁄4 (73 × 104.8)sheet: 37 × 49 5⁄8 (94 × 126.1)Crown Point PressCourtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise

Laura Owens, Untitled (LO 425), 2010
Detail, lower left, *Untitled (LO 425)*2010color softground etching, spitbite aquatint, and sugarliftaquatintplate: 28 3⁄4 × 41 1⁄4 (73 × 104.8)sheet: 37 1⁄4 × 49 1⁄4 (94.6 × 125.1)Crown Point PressCourtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise

Laura Owens, Untitled (LO 425), 2010
Detail, center,*Untitled (LO 425)* (working proof)2010color softground etching, spitbite aquatint, and sugarliftaquatint with colored-pencil additions and artist’snotationsplate: 28 3⁄4 × 41 1⁄4 (73 × 104.8)sheet: 37 × 49 5⁄8 (94 × 126.1)Crown Point PressCourtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise

Laura Owens, Untitled (LO 425), 2010
Detail, center, *Untitled (LO 425)*2010color softground etching, spitbite aquatint, and sugarliftaquatintplate: 28 3⁄4 × 41 1⁄4 (73 × 104.8)sheet: 37 1⁄4 × 49 1⁄4 (94.6 × 125.1)Crown Point PressCourtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise

Laura Owens,*Untitled*, 2009, acrylic and oil on linen, Private collection,Courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, © Laura Owens

Though inspired by one of the artist’s paintings (above), *Untitled (LO 425)*is by no means a copy. The painting’s bright reds, purples, turquoises, and pastel blues give way in the final print to tones that convey the sense of cool moonlight. Owens arrived at the palette incrementally, after experimenting with a number of different color combinations. More brightly colored than the final print, the working proof reveals an intermediate color scheme between that of the painting and the final edition print (the numbers and *X*’s scattered across the proof indicate color revisions).

Laura Owens examining a working proof for *Untitled (LO 425)*, 2010, photograph by Kathan Brown, Courtesy Crown Point Press

Banner image: Detail, Pat Steir, *Kweilin Dreaming* 88, 1998, color woodcut with hand-painting and pen-and-ink drawing on silk mounted to paper, Crown Point Press, © Pat Steir

Next: Wayne Thiebaud

"Yes, No, Maybe: The Art of Making Decisions," lecture by exhibition curators Judith Brodie and Adam Greenhalgh (audio)Julie Mehretu, artist, in conversation with curator Judith Brodie, Diamonstein-Spielvogel lecture (audio)"An Insider's Perspective," lecture by Kathan Brown, founder of Crown Point Press (audio)

Exhibition tour by curators Judith Brodie and Adam Greenhalgh (audio)

Laura Owens in the collection of the National Gallery of Art

Crown Point Press prints in the collection of the National Gallery of Art

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