“I feel like there’s a space of personal freedom for me where my art-making happens. When I go to that space, I’m completely in this world of possibility.” WorldFeelsArtHappensSpacePossibilityPersonal FreedomArt Making Author:Laura Owens
“In art school, they teach you to struggle through the process: If you have your image down, you've painted it, and it's not looking the way you wanted it to, you can do wet on wet - you just keep moving the image around.” IfsWayArtWantedSchoolMovingProcessCan DoTeachStruggleWetKeep MovingArt SchoolJust Keep Moving Author:Laura Owens
“There tends to be a sort of mundane quality to what I select - things from around the house, around the studio. I'm not ashamed of the craft shop - the art supply store - and I don't need my work to be anti-art store, but I also believe in using things that are just sort of around - it makes sense to me.” NeedsBelieveArtHouseQualityStudiosStoresCraftsMake SenseAshamedShopsSelectMundane Author:Laura Owens
“I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in terms of what is considered fine art, by comparison with something like a comic book or what's considered low art - is that painting should open up laterally to include other cultures and things that don't immediately resonate as a painting but are obviously of equal contribution to the genre.” FeelsShouldLongHas BeensArtImportantBookCultureTermPaintingFineEqualLong TimeLowsArt IsComicGenreContributionComparisonComic BookFine ArtsOther CulturesReally Long Author:Laura Owens
“I think a lot of male artists should and probably are thinking in the same ways. The culture has moved in a more democratic, pluralistic direction. You now find a lot of people who are looking outside of the mainstream of the history of art for their mentors. Maybe not heroes, but mentors.” PeopleThinkingWayShouldArtArtistCultureHeroMovedDemocraticMalesMainstreamMentor Author:Laura Owens