Laura Owens
Ten Paintings
28 Apr - 23 Jul 2016
Laura Owens
Ten Paintings, 2016
installation view, Wattis Institute
Courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York / Sadie Coles HQ, London / Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Photo: Johnna Arnold
Ten Paintings, 2016
installation view, Wattis Institute
Courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York / Sadie Coles HQ, London / Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Photo: Johnna Arnold
LAURA OWENS
TEN PAINTINGS
28 April – 23 July 2016
Pick your battles is usually sound advice.
When it comes to painting, there are many battles to choose from: flatness versus depth, materiality versus illusion, abstraction versus representation, the epic versus the everyday, the grid versus the gesture.
Laura Owens picks them all, and she plays both sides. She self-consciously over-performs the act and the idea of painting. She makes paintings that look like paintings. She forces painting to perform tasks other than painting. She feeds painting its own tail so that it ties itself up in knots.
This is an exhibition of new work. Its centerpiece is an immersive installation of silkscreened, flocked, painted, and hand-printed wallpaper that covers every wall of the main gallery.
TEN PAINTINGS
28 April – 23 July 2016
Pick your battles is usually sound advice.
When it comes to painting, there are many battles to choose from: flatness versus depth, materiality versus illusion, abstraction versus representation, the epic versus the everyday, the grid versus the gesture.
Laura Owens picks them all, and she plays both sides. She self-consciously over-performs the act and the idea of painting. She makes paintings that look like paintings. She forces painting to perform tasks other than painting. She feeds painting its own tail so that it ties itself up in knots.
This is an exhibition of new work. Its centerpiece is an immersive installation of silkscreened, flocked, painted, and hand-printed wallpaper that covers every wall of the main gallery.