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

[@nataliegiannos3091]

I think a lot of people are missing the point here. So many celebrated painters have work with a more compositional focus- she’s damn good at what she does: harnessing gestures, creating illusions, pitting the digital up against tradition, and curating an experience.

[@sergiolobato1798]

I would love to see the paintings and space in person!

[@billbodge3879]

They are fun and whimsical. Like the parts that look paintings that have been cut out in placed on the canvas but have Photoshop drop shadows. Most are paintings that are put together as collage. 80's are back.

[@seanpaints]

Would love to see this in person. Lots of really great observations about painting. Much more interesting than just a blanket explanation of the exhibition!

[@corginut123]

Enjoy her viewpoint.

[@missinglink9973]

thats her fucking studio!!! OMG its massive

[@BingeCenter]

real smart. loved the close looks

[@kenkewley3357]

painting can do a lot more than this.

[@7kurisu]

i thought she was trashing picabia at the end - "whaaaa...?" then i replayed it and she was saying they took risks and didnt settle for a bourgeois standard of "good" painting

[@samradja5275]

Brilliant

[@MattStaples1]

It actually made sense that they were big, she wasn't just being a jock. Great talk.

[@miketv2331]

looks like swatches from a wallpaper catalog

[@vmacart]

she's strategizing

[@TheMspaint]

Quel dommage de ne pas avoir un texte sous titré en Français...

[@aerobello]

the size does not make it better

[@msllsm1]

So many contradictions - talking about painting being a symbolic gesture of itself, but NOT being interested in paintings being vessels for ideas? If the symbolic gesture eliminates the pressure of what's happening, does it not then become an object in which meaning can be inferred through interpretation and/or projection of recognizable signs and symbols within it?

[@gesudinazaret9259]

Yes it can ,but I guess it also can’t,that’s why it doesn’t ,and sometimes it does

[@dayviduh]

Finally gave up in Boyle Heights thanks to community action! Bye Laura Owens and Gavin Brown. The people have won, don't come back

[@1hayes1]

She's with the reconnaissance troops of gentrification...

[@rachelgong7376]

do you know what i mean...

[@annimcphee123]

Umm joke right????????

[@ericwhite3327]

Just keep talking and talking, buzzword, namedrop, talk talk talk. I’m guessing this is learned in art school?

[@mankind7778]

I watched her over at the Picabia - MoMA talk and thought "maybe she was having a bad day and she's not actually so dull" then I came here... turns out she's even more dull than I originally thought. Please smile for once in your life. Who are you trying to be Liam Gallagher?

[@watchvids7802]

Yeah, Laura Owens, please stick to social norms!!

[@1hayes1]

Gross. She makes me nostalgic for artists that I hated in the past, like Sue Williams and Ida Applebroog.

[@kevinradu2183]

Gee.....so much art school chatter....sad....good art comes in all shapes and sizes. It's actually uninspiring how rigid and limited she sounds as if she just discovered scale....ho hum

[@missinglink9973]

Blah Blah Blah....artist speak....HUH???

[@pansieisawesome]

I wanna apologize on behalf of artists, not all of us are boring white painters talking a lot and not saying much and driving the rent up in poor neighborhoods

[@OlvisTokyo]

No hating comment but: It seems really hard for her to talk..very wistful and lethargic

[@danny4481]

Read the profile in the Oct 30 2017 New Yorker mAGAZINE.

[@JameeyJ]

If she were to paint this stuff on a 24x24 piece of wood it would look terrible. Even it being big it looks terrible. Real artist can work with any size and scale....she got bored and decided to be an artist. When artists like this over explain their work it means that its crap. If you have to explains your work until someone starts to not think for themselves you aren't truly making art. When viewing a painting its not supposed to tell you what to do you tell it.

[@MsJackiebower]

HORSE SHIT!!!!

[@justinratcliff7766]

Artists and athletes, the least articulate human beings on Earth...

[@Garland67]

There are many articulate artists today! Rothenberg, Koons, Gerhard Richter, Ai Weiwei etc etc.