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Laura Owens, Untitled, 2013, Acrylic, oil, Flashe, and charcoal on linen, 137.5 x 120"

Laura Owens, Untitled, 2013, Acrylic, oil and Flashe on linen, 137.5 x 120"

Laura Owens, Untitled, 2013, Acrylic, oil and Flashe on canvas, 137.5 x 120"

Laura Owens, Untitled, 2013, Acrylic, oil, resin and charcoal on linen, 137.5 x 120"

Laura Owens, Untitled, 2013, Acrylic, oil and Flashe on canvas, 137.5 x 120"

Laura Owens, Untitled, 2013, Acrylic, oil and Flashe on linen, 137.5 x 120"

Laura Owens, Untitled, 2013, Acrylic, oil, resin and charcoal on linen, 137.5 x 120"

Laura Owens, Untitled, 2013, Acrylic, oil, Flashe, and charcoal on linen, 137.5 x 120"

Laura Owens, Untitled, 2013, Acrylic, oil and Flashe on linen, 137.5 x 120"

Laura Owens, Untitled, 2013, Acrylic, oil, resin, pastel, and charcoal on linen, 137.5 x 120"

Laura Owens, Untitled, 2013, Acrylic, oil and Flashe on canvas, 137.5 x 120"

Laura Owens, Untitled, 2013, Acrylic, oil, Flashe and resin on canvas, 137.5 x 120"

Laura Owens, "12 Paintings by Laura Owens and Ooga Booga #2", 2013. Exhibition view at 356 Mission

Laura Owens, "12 Paintings by Laura Owens and Ooga Booga #2", 2013. Exhibition view at 356 Mission

Laura Owens, "12 Paintings by Laura Owens and Ooga Booga #2", 2013. Exhibition view at 356 Mission

Laura Owens, "12 Paintings by Laura Owens and Ooga Booga #2", 2013. Exhibition view at 356 Mission

Laura Owens, "12 Paintings by Laura Owens and Ooga Booga #2", 2013. Exhibition view at 356 Mission

Laura Owens, "12 Paintings by Laura Owens and Ooga Booga #2", 2013. Exhibition view at 356 Mission

Laura Owens, "12 Paintings by Laura Owens and Ooga Booga #2", 2013. Exhibition view at 356 Mission

Laura Owens, "12 Paintings by Laura Owens and Ooga Booga #2", 2013. Exhibition view at 356 Mission

Laura Owens, "12 Paintings by Laura Owens and Ooga Booga #2", 2013. Exhibition view at 356 Mission

Laura Owens, "12 Paintings by Laura Owens and Ooga Booga #2", 2013. Exhibition view at 356 Mission

Laura Owens: “12 Paintings by Laura Owens and Ooga Booga #2”

January 20 – July 7, 2013

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Laura Owens - 12 Paintings at 356 S. Mission Road - The Artist's Studio
produced by MOCAtv

Interview and editing: Jesse R. Fleming
Camera: Nicholas Trikonis
Sound: Tareek Young
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"I hadn’t shown in Los Angeles for 10 years, and I felt like I was not a part of the conversation here. I am invested in making paintings, and the conversation about painting is really limited. I really do have ideas about painting, and I wanted people to look at them. So out of that it grew. I like all these other artists, and wouldn’t it be great to show them too? Why not just say yes to everything and start doing it all?" – Laura Owens in Conversation with Jan Tumlir and Stephen Berens for X-TRA, Fall 2013
"These forceful paintings easily could have spun out if Owens wasn’t in complete physical control of everything in them; she remains mindful of crucial things beyond their edges, ensuring that the paintings’ material and pictorial conditions establish a social connection without sacrificing the integrity of their painterly moves." – Terry R. Myers for The Brooklyn Rail, May 2013
"One canvas, for instance, is gessoed to an immaculately smooth finish, then filled with an all-over jumble of cats, deftly drawn in charcoal." – Jonathan Griffin for Frieze, April 2013
"I wanted to try something different, outside of a system of institutional parameters and thirty-day exhibitions. For about four years, I wanted to make an installation of paintings in a site that I found on my own and on my own time line." – Laura Owens interviewed by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer for Artforum, March 2013
"Shown at the L.A.-based artist's own gallery-cum-community-center, these large-scale works have all the trademarks of Owens's increasingly diverse approach: a forceful graphic impulse, a flickering figural sweetness and a jumbled juxtaposition of styles." – "Rob Pruitt Art Awards: Gallery Solo Show of the Year" in Art in America, December 2013
"On view for six months, the suite of twelve XXL paintings, made in that very space, was aesthetically promiscuous and wildly ambitious, and provided conclusive proof–not that it was needed–that painting's demise has been greatly exaggerated." – from Matthew Higgs's "Best of 2013" list for Artforum, December 2013
“12 Paintings by Laura Owens” closing party

July 7, 2013

Laura Owens opening reception

January 20, 2013
12 Paintings by Laura Owens book launch and signing with Laura Owens

November 22, 2014
Laura Owens website (click to enter)

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