American Laura Owens is among a select group of artists credited with the rebirth of painting. She has developed a style all her own, moving from landscape to abstraction with energetic thick brushstrokes, fanciful childlike doodles, or sophisticated fine line drawings. "Each painting can act as a question," she says, and, demonstrating a wide and imaginative range, she's constantly experimenting and changing her work. "Ultimately, you want to make the painting that you want to be with, not one that is constantly telling you everything it knows. Who wants to be with something or someone like that? It's more fun to be with someone who is willing to go out on a limb." This book is being designed by Owens herself to accompany an exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and will include, along with paintings from the show, new drawings made exclusively for the publication, as well as several textile works from the museum's collection that inspired her while she served as artist-in-residence in the Spring of 2000.
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Laura Owens was born in Ohio in 1970. Since her first solo exhibitions in the mid-90s at Gavin Brown's Enterprise in New York and the Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Santa Monica, she has exhibited widely and in 2001 she had her first solo museum exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. She has participated in many major group shows over the past several years and is represented in public collections such as the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; The Musem of Modern Art; the Guggenheim, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and others.
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Marevelously Laura Owens,
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The book contained fewer pictures and more information than I had hoped for, but completely makes up for it by including all kinds of little doodles in the margins. The book gives good background of Owens, and the overall feel of the book gives you a real sense of her as an artist. It had enough pictures to keep me happy, and the right information to make me want to read.
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smaller sized book than I expected,
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The book was smaller than what I expected. There weren't very many pictures of her works, and those that were included were generally quite small, and then accompanied by a detail shot. I wouldn't recommend it unless you're an Owens fanatic looking to own everything about her. The images in "Drawing Now" were more satisfying than the ones found in this book.
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