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Laura Owens Teams Up with Cleveland Teens for a Playful Show on Time Travel

by Andrea Gyorody May 23, 2021May 21, 2021

Though unequivocally a monographic show, Rerun is clearly the product of many (fresh and youthful) voices, much to its benefit.

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Whitney Museum Launches Emoji Designed by Laura Owens

by Claire Voon January 17, 2018January 17, 2018

The new pack of 50 stickers is based on a series of ceramic sculptures Owens made based on the beloved facial icons.

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Painting as Total Environment

by Jason Stopa January 6, 2018August 16, 2018

Laura Owens, Keltie Ferris, Rachel Rossin, and Trudy Benson are exploring hybrid paintings that rival sculpture in their tactility, illusion, and physical depth.

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Laura Owens and the Death of the Auteur

by John Yau December 17, 2017December 15, 2017

Owens’s mid-career works feel completely sterile, mainstream, and middlebrow — with just enough insider info to flatter the viewer who knows something about Roland Barthes.

The inaugural exhibition at 356 Mission, featuring large-scale paintings by Laura Owens (via Wikimedia Commons)
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Laura Owens Responds to Anti-Gentrification Protests of Her Boyle Heights Gallery

by Benjamin Sutton November 14, 2017

In an extensive response to last week’s protest at the Whitney Museum, the artist offered her take on the current situation in Boyle Heights.

Members of Boyle Heights Alliance Against Artwashing and Displacement (BHAAAD) protest at the Whitney Museum during Laura Owens's opening on Wednesday, November 8. (screenshot by the author via YouTube)
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Anti-Gentrification Activists Protest Laura Owens Exhibition at the Whitney Museum

by Benjamin Sutton November 10, 2017November 11, 2017

An alliance of activists from Los Angeles and New York highlighted the role of the artist and her dealer, Gavin Brown, in artwashing the gentrification of working-class neighborhoods.

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Reviewing the Responses to MoMA’s Divisive Painting Survey

by Anne Sherwood Pundyk March 19, 2015March 19, 2015

As news of art fairs and Bjork took the spotlight earlier this month, I lingered on the Museum of Modern Art’s The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, up through early April.

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The Death of Painting: All-New, 2014 Edition

by Thomas Micchelli December 20, 2014April 15, 2016

The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, the new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, prompted thoughts of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance, though I’m not sure how much acceptance there is in the end.

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