Laura Owens
Matthew Marks Gallery•Feb 14, 2025 — Apr 19, 2025
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Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Laura Owens, the next exhibition in his galleries at 522 and 526 West 22nd Street. Owens’s first exhibition in New York in eight years is an immersive environment of new work in painting, sculpture, and hand-made books.
Laura Owens began exhibiting her work in the mid-1990s and quickly became known for her innovative approach to painting. Her work synthesizes traditional methods with unconventional ones, including printmaking and digital manipulation, to create destabilizing illusions of depth, extending her paintings beyond the confines of the canvas into three-dimensional space. Her paintings are often self-referential and draw extensively from art history, decorative arts, and craft traditions, as well as mass media and personal anecdotes.
The exhibition demonstrates Owens’s both meticulous and experimental approach to artmaking. Each element is hand-made in the artist’s studio through labor-intensive processes pioneered…
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Laura Owens
Matthew Marks Gallery•Feb 14, 2025 — Apr 19, 2025
Press Release
Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Laura Owens, the next exhibition in his galleries at 522 and 526 West 22nd Street. Owens’s first exhibition in New York in eight years is an immersive environment of new work in painting, sculpture, and hand-made books.
Laura Owens began exhibiting her work in the mid-1990s and quickly became known for her innovative approach to painting. Her work synthesizes traditional methods with unconventional ones, including printmaking and digital manipulation, to create destabilizing illusions of depth, extending her paintings beyond the confines of the canvas into three-dimensional space. Her paintings are often self-referential and draw extensively from art history, decorative arts, and craft traditions, as well as mass media and personal anecdotes.
The exhibition demonstrates Owens’s both meticulous and experimental approach to artmaking. Each element is hand-made in the artist’s studio through labor-intensive processes pioneered…
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