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Laura Owens

Owens is known for her large formats and a specific visual idiom inspired by references to art history, borrowings from popular and vernacular culture, and the visual traditions of non-Western cultures. On the formal level, her work has always been distinguished by combinations and superimpositions of different techniques, media, and motifs. She prints, paints, and sprays on her canvases, embroiders them and pastes elements and, in some instances, entire objects onto them. Owens also uses digital technology; art and image editing applications are no less part of her repertoire than more traditional tools. Her approach to painting entails a permanently evolving visual language; extensive preparations, studies, and technical experiments are characteristic of her creative process. By the time the work on the canvas proper begins, the essential parameters of the painting have already been determined.

Her most recent works seamlessly combine her interest in the “picture within the picture,” a traditional trope of art history, with the ubiquitous aesthetic of screens, in which the simultaneity of adjacent and overlapping “windows” showing different content feels completely natural. The conjunction of digitally manipulated graphical elements and the analog technique of silkscreen printing has emerged as a major theme in her art 

the paintings hanging on the wall represent individual pages but comprise a constructed idea of the newspaper as a whole. Textures, colors and images repeat and continue from painting to painting just as the front-page article of a newspaper might continue on page 6. The artist began to work with compounded images of time following an exhibition at Capitain Petzel, Berlin, that included a short story spread across five freestanding, double-sided paintings with an ending that continued on a separate still life painted in the style of her own earlier work. For the new works, she has digitally manipulated the original World War 2-era Los Angeles Times to include both recent news and advertising from contemporary publications and websites alongside even older content dating as far back as the 1890s. While some fragments contain clear references to a specific era, others are not so easy to place historically. At a glance, the sources within any given painting never cohere into a clear chronology of then and now.

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Painting After Technology: Hal Foster and Mark Godfrey in conversation, Tate Modern 

Sigmar Polke, Albert Oehlen, Tomma Abts, Christopher Wool, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, Laura Owens, Jacqueline Humphries.

Foster wants to work through many of the forces that emerged in the 60s which are persistent in these artists’ works: 

there’s an implicit grid

involved with pop

appropriation of images and gesture (as a readymade or image) with the intention of complicating it, playing with its authenticity (like Polke, David Salle) > a lot want to make a gesture and to cancel it at the same time (like Richter, which Foster says Wool, von Heyl, and Humphries do) > what does this mean for subjectivity now?

what does it mean to want to reconcile forces/effects etc. which seemed beyond painting with painting?

painting has a responsibility to provide “a space apart”/time away from the other screens ubiquitous in cont. society 

Links from here.

Polke

Sigmar Polke: Alibis at Tate Modern

TateShots: Sigmar Polke

MoMA exhibits; Sigmar Polke confuses; A critical look at a survey of Sigmar Polke

Albert Oehlen

theartVIEw - ALBERT OEHLEN at mumok

ALBERT OEHLEN: New Paintings at Gagosian Beverly Hills

Turquoise Boy Albert Oehlen

Tomma Abts

Turner Prize Artist's Talk: Tomma Abts

Tomma Abts wins the Turner Prize

Tomma Abts- Gustav Mahler

Christopher Wool

Guggenheim Christopher Wool Symposium — Abstraction since 1980

Christopher Wool - Crosstown Crosstown, artist talk at DCA

Amy Sillman

Seminars with Artists: Amy Sillman

Studio Visit: Amy Sillman

Art World Favorite Amy Sillman's First-Ever Retrospective At The ICA

Charline von Heyl

TateShots: Charline von Heyl

Charline von Heyl: The Carefree Things

Charline Von Heyl - Now or Else

Laura Owens

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

Laura Owens LA Studio Tour

Laura Owens at Crown Point Press, 2011

UCLA Department of Art Lectures: Laura Owens

Wade Guyton

Wade Guyton, Untitled, 2008

Wade Guyton, Untitled, 2008

Wade Guyton Interview

A.P. Wade Guyton