Owens does everything wrong, which makes her art so totally right. Cat doodles, children’s book illustrations, needlework, handicrafts—categories that are anathema to the conventions of professional, ...

The trick of Owens’ painting is that the newspaper stories seduce a viewer into trying to decode their meanings and connections. The work pulls you in and holds your attention. In an untitled and very ...

Laura Owens is an Ohio-born contemporary artist who was a student when academia scornfully relegated painting to the domain of dusty encyclopedic museums, rather than a fruitful path for modern ...

Remember when there were three brows – high, middle and low? The schema was concocted a century ago from phrenology, an inquiry in which racialism and eugenics masqueraded as science to examine the ...

For more than twenty years, Los Angeles–based artist Laura Owens has pioneered an innovative approach to painting that has made her one of the most influential artists of her generation. Her bold and ...

In the heart of the Firelands (aka the Sufferers’ Lands), a block of towns in northeastern Ohio granted to Connecticut citizens whose homesteads were burned by British forces during the Revolutionary ...

Spoleto Festival USA revealed on Thursday its 2019 poster, which features an image of an untitled 2016 painting by 49-year-old Los Angeles-based artist Laura Owens. The original 20-by-15-inch painting ...

Foreword / Adam D. Weinberg -- Introduction / Scott Rothkopf -- Oral histories. Childhood / Carol Hendrickson -- RISD / Deborah Kass -- CalArts / Alex Slade -- Rosamund Felsen exhibition / Laura Owens ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the ...