Laura Owens

 
Born 1970, Laura Owens lives and works in L.A. Robots in the garden, lions, hunters, romance and war are some of the images in her work. Owens' influences are wide, ranging from Dada performance to hindu relief ; elsewhere she has broken away from the fine arts to delve into wallpapers and textiles.
Beyond the straightforward beauty of Owens' paintings and drawings is a constant questioning of her chosen media. She has rejected naturalism in favour of depictions, representations. Her magpie-like approach to resources is echoed in her application of paint and the arrival of foreign elements in her collages. Evident too is an unashamed pleasure in ornamentation, a delight in pictorial elegance, which affords decoration a new dignity. Owens combines abstract elements with representational elements to create a highly personal vocabulary: a vocabulary which translates into an elaborate, elegant and quietly exuberant whole.
 
Laura Owens - Ringier Annual Report 2013
2014
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
Artist's book (limited edition).
Laura Owens -
2006
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
Paintings / collages: ornementation and pictural elegance.


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