Laura Owens

Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Cologne, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Laura Owens, October - December 2004
Kunsthalle Zurich, Laura Owens, June 2006 - August 2006, p. 179, illustrated in color

This work is in excellent condition overall. Under close inspection, there are no apparent condition issues. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Unframed.
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"I feel that painting has to penetrate the viewer and should not allow the viewer to penetrate it. That’s important to me, and perhaps I’m assigning an anthropomorphic quality to the painting, if I’m saying it’s like a person; however, it can’t be a passive object which you look into, like a window. It’s completely uninteresting to me. I think you could possibly use the idea 'window' in paintings because it’s a historical idea that you can play around with, but it’s not interesting to me for paintings to be windows into a passive other world. There are other things that are important as well, like the discourse around the painting, painting as an ethic, or the way the painting is making space. But the painting has to activate the space it’s in, and not let itself passively fall back into the wall. It has to motivate and act on the viewer who is in the space." Laura Owens