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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