Owens, Laura
By: Scott Rothkopf
Contributors: Owens, Laura; Whitney Museum of American Art; Dallas Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 663
ISBN-13: 9780300229295
Subjects: Exhibitions
Description: 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).
Notes: 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 bibliographical references.