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

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

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11 жыл бұрын

Lauded for her witty and earnest style, Laura Owens culls vocabulary from the history of painting, experiments and plays with it to create works that are both arresting and pleasurable to behold. In paintings that take pastiche to formal and conceptual extremes, Owens' painting decisions are as much about the gesture as they are about the history of it. Because of their large scale, Owens was able to explore both the gestural and phenomenological aspects of painting, creating discrete works that may be experienced individually or together as a cohesive body of site-specific work. In this on-site interview, Owens goes into detail about her new large-scale works, which are on view at Ooga Booga in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles.
Interview and editing: Jesse R. Fleming
Camera: Nicholas Trikonis
Sound: Tareek Young
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@nataliegiannos3091 5 жыл бұрын

I think a lot of people are missing the point here. So many celebrated painters have work with a more compositional focus- she’s damn good at what she does: harnessing gestures, creating illusions, pitting the digital up against tradition, and curating an experience.

@seanpaints 8 жыл бұрын

Would love to see this in person. Lots of really great observations about painting. Much more interesting than just a blanket explanation of the exhibition!

@sergiolobato1798 9 жыл бұрын

I would love to see the paintings and space in person!

@corginut123 10 ай бұрын

Enjoy her viewpoint.

@BingeCenter 11 жыл бұрын

real smart. loved the close looks

@billbodge3879 10 жыл бұрын

They are fun and whimsical. Like the parts that look paintings that have been cut out in placed on the canvas but have Photoshop drop shadows. Most are paintings that are put together as collage. 80's are back.

@samradja5275 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant

@missinglink9973 5 жыл бұрын

thats her fucking studio!!! OMG its massive

@kenkewley3357 5 жыл бұрын

painting can do a lot more than this.

@7kurisu 11 жыл бұрын

i thought she was trashing picabia at the end - "whaaaa...?" then i replayed it and she was saying they took risks and didnt settle for a bourgeois standard of "good" painting

@TheMspaint 6 жыл бұрын

Quel dommage de ne pas avoir un texte sous titré en Français...

@vmacart 3 жыл бұрын

she's strategizing

@miketv2331 11 жыл бұрын

looks like swatches from a wallpaper catalog

@MattStaples1 11 жыл бұрын

It actually made sense that they were big, she wasn't just being a jock. Great talk.

@1hayes1 4 жыл бұрын

She's with the reconnaissance troops of gentrification...

@KABAKUBA 4 жыл бұрын

the size does not make it better

@mrbigolnuts3041 6 жыл бұрын

I only know about Laura because I saw one of her works sold for 1.8 million last night, it's the same day I saw Mr Brainwash throwing paint over a Mercedes Benz, which at the time I deemed idiotic. But hearing Laura speak in such a clinical, "design director" manner, sends chills up my spine. Even the way in which she states art shouldn't be made sounds so formulaic, rigid, contrived.....sadly this makes me warm to Mr Brainwash hurling paint over a German family mover. She talks about emotion as if it's a tick box on a check list.

@rachelgong7376 6 жыл бұрын

do you know what i mean...

@msllsm1 4 жыл бұрын

So many contradictions - talking about painting being a symbolic gesture of itself, but NOT being interested in paintings being vessels for ideas? If the symbolic gesture eliminates the pressure of what's happening, does it not then become an object in which meaning can be inferred through interpretation and/or projection of recognizable signs and symbols within it?

@gesudinazaret9259 7 ай бұрын

Yes it can ,but I guess it also can’t,that’s why it doesn’t ,and sometimes it does

@dayviduh 6 жыл бұрын

Finally gave up in Boyle Heights thanks to community action! Bye Laura Owens and Gavin Brown. The people have won, don't come back

@annimcphee123 10 жыл бұрын

Umm joke right????????

@mankind7778 7 жыл бұрын

I watched her over at the Picabia - MoMA talk and thought "maybe she was having a bad day and she's not actually so dull" then I came here... turns out she's even more dull than I originally thought. Please smile for once in your life. Who are you trying to be Liam Gallagher?

@watchvids7802 7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Laura Owens, please stick to social norms!!

@1hayes1 4 жыл бұрын

Gross. She makes me nostalgic for artists that I hated in the past, like Sue Williams and Ida Applebroog.

@pansieisawesome 4 жыл бұрын

I wanna apologize on behalf of artists, not all of us are boring white painters talking a lot and not saying much and driving the rent up in poor neighborhoods

@missinglink9973 5 жыл бұрын

Blah Blah Blah....artist speak....HUH???

@ericwhite3327 6 жыл бұрын

Just keep talking and talking, buzzword, namedrop, talk talk talk. I’m guessing this is learned in art school?

@kevinradu2183 Жыл бұрын

Gee.....so much art school chatter....sad....good art comes in all shapes and sizes. It's actually uninspiring how rigid and limited she sounds as if she just discovered scale....ho hum

@OlvisTokyo 8 жыл бұрын

No hating comment but: It seems really hard for her to talk..very wistful and lethargic

@danny4481 6 жыл бұрын

Read the profile in the Oct 30 2017 New Yorker mAGAZINE.

@JameeyJ 11 жыл бұрын

If she were to paint this stuff on a 24x24 piece of wood it would look terrible. Even it being big it looks terrible. Real artist can work with any size and scale....she got bored and decided to be an artist. When artists like this over explain their work it means that its crap. If you have to explains your work until someone starts to not think for themselves you aren't truly making art. When viewing a painting its not supposed to tell you what to do you tell it.