Laura Owens / Scott Rothkopf.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Whitney Museum of American Art, 2017Distributor: New Haven ; London : Distributed by Yale University Press Copyright date: 2017Description: 663 pages : colour illustrationsContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780300229295
- Owens, Laura [Portion of title]
- Owens, Laura. Paintings. Selections
- 759.13 OWE 21
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 759.13 OWE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39002100677526 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A richly illustrated, expansive mid-career survey of the stand-out American artist's pioneering and influential work, with each copy featuring a unique silk-screen cover printed in Owens's studio
Since the early 1990s, Laura Owens (b. 1970) has challenged traditional assumptions about figuration and abstraction in her pioneering approach to painting. Created in close collaboration with the artist on the occasion of her mid-career survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art, this inventive and comprehensive book features an incisive introduction by Scott Rothkopf, critical essays, literary texts, and short commentaries on a variety of subjects related to Owens's broad interests, which range from folk art and needlework to comics and wallpaper.
Reflections by more than twenty of Owens's fellow artists, collaborators, assistants, dealers, family members, and friends offer an array of perspectives on her work at different periods in her life, beginning with her high school years in Ohio and ending with her current exhibition. A rich trove of more than a thousand images, drawn from the artist's personal archive and largely unpublished before now, includes personal correspondence, journals, academic transcripts, handwritten notes, source material, exhibition announcements, clippings, and installation photographs.
Strikingly, each copy also features a unique silk-screen cover printed in Owens's studio, giving readers the opportunity to own an original work of art. Together, all of these elements provide a rare and intimate look at how an artist might make her way in the world as well as how art gets made, movements take hold, and relationships evolve over time.
Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art
Exhibition Schedule:
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
(11/10/17-02/04/18)
Dallas Museum of Art
(03/25/18-07/29/18)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
(11/04/18-03/25/19)
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 10, 2017-February 4, 2018; Dallas Museum of Art, Spring-Summer 2018 and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Fall 2018-Winter 2019.
Includes bibliographical references.
A richly illustrated, expansive mid-career survey of the stand-out American artist's pioneering and influential work Since the early 1990s, Laura Owens (b. 1970) has challenged traditional assumptions about figuration and abstraction in her pioneering-and at times controversial-approach to painting. This inventive mid-career survey of Owens's work takes the form of an expansive five-hundred-page book, interweaving writing on the artist's work with excerpts from a wide variety of texts. Including an essay by Scott Rothkopf, this richly illustrated volume presents Owens's paintings within a rich trove of archival imagery that includes exhibition announcements, installation photographs, personal correspondence, and source material, most of which has never before been published. Reflections by fellow artists, collaborators, assistants, dealers, family, and friends contribute an array of perspectives on Owens's working practice and her numerous achievements. 00Exhibition: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (11.10.2017-04.02.2018).