Laura Owens

Laura Owens (born 1970 in Euclid, Ohio) is an American painter who emerged in the late 1990s. She is best known for large-scale paintings that combine a variety of art historical references and painterly techniques. She lives and works in Los Angeles and, in 2013, turned her studio work space into an exhibition space called 356 S.Mission Rd. , in collaboration with art dealer, Gavin Brown, and soon after, hosting a second location for the art bookstore Ooga Booga[1] -- the venue has exhibited artists such as Elaine Sturtevant and Alex Katz.

Education

Owens received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1992. In 1994 she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.[2]

Work

In 2003 she had her first survey exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Owens’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Secession, Vienna (2015); Kunstmuseum Bonn (2011); Bonnefanten Museum (2007); Kunsthalle Zürich (2006); Camden Arts Centre, London (2006); Milwaukee Art Museum (2003); Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2003); and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, (2001). She was included in the Whitney Biennial in 2004 and again in 2014. In 2015 Laura Owens showed new paintings in the exhibition Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World at the Museum of Modern Art. She is represented by Gavin Brown Enterprise, Sadie Coles Headquarters, and Galerie Gisela Capitain.

In 2013, Owens exhibited 12 new paintings in a building she found on Mission Road, across the river from Downtown Los Angeles.[3] Owens continues to run 356 Mission as an exhibition space in collaboration with Gavin Brown and Wendy Yao.[4]

In 2015, Owens made paintings based on World War II-era newspaper stereotype plates she discovered underneath the shingle siding of her Los Angeles home.[5] Like much of her recent work, the paintings combined traditional oil paint with screen printed images digitally manipulated in Adobe Photoshop.

In addition to painting, Owens also creates artists' books.[6]

Exhibitions

Select Solo Exhibitions

Awards and Honors

She was awarded the inaugural Bâloise Prize at Art Basel in 1999.[11] Owens received the Willard L. Metcalf Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001. [12][13] In 2015 she was awarded the Robert De Niro, Sr. prize.[14] She is on the shortlist for the 2016 Hugo Boss Prize.[15]

She was a Guna S. Mundheim Visual Arts Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in the spring of 2007. [16]

References

  1. ↑ jstarmy, James Tarmy. "If You Go to Only One Gallery in L.A., Go Here". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
  2. ↑ http://owenslaura.com/
  3. ↑ Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah. "Optical Drive." Artforum International 51.7 (2013): 230-239.
  4. ↑ "If You Go To Only One Gallery in LA, Go Here". Bloomberg. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  5. ↑ "Laura Owens July 2 - August 30, 2015". Secession. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  6. ↑ "owenslaura.com/books". owenslaura.com. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  7. ↑ Villarreal, Ignacio. "Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht Presents Laura Owens". artdaily.com. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  8. ↑ "Artist Talk with Laura Owens". American Academy in Berlin. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  9. ↑ "LAURA OWENS: Kunstmuseum Bonn". www.kunstmuseum-bonn.de. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  10. ↑ "Laura Owens « secession". www.secession.at. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  11. ↑ "Baloise Art Prize" (PDF). Baloise.com. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  12. ↑ "artnet.com Magazine News". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  13. ↑ "American Academy of Arts and Letters - Award Winners". www.artsandletters.org. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  14. ↑ "Laura Owens Wins 2015 Robert De Niro, Sr. Prize". Artforum. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  15. ↑ "Shortlist announced for 2016 Hugo Boss Prize". Artforum. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  16. ↑ "Laura Owens". American Academy in Berlin. Retrieved 2016-03-30.

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