“I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.” Quote by Laura Owens
“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
“For me, at some point, the idea of struggling through the process was not as interesting as doing tests and executing the painting after I figured out all of its elements and how they were going to work together.” IdeasTogetherProcessInterestingStrugglePaintingElementsTestsWorking TogetherGoing To WorkExecuting 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
“I’m not sure a lot of other people would walk up to the same artwork and see the shadow on the person’s face from the hat and be like “Do you see that!” It’s about noticing things that interest you, and that definitely happens with the natural world as well.” PeopleWorldWellsPersonsHappensFacesInterestNaturalWalksShadowNot SureHatsNatural WorldNoticingArtworkNoticing Things Author:Laura Owens
“The humor for me is how far above your head the signature is - it's dislocated from the sign of the artist in such a distinct way that it could almost be a self-portrait of a sort.” WaySelfArtistPortraitsSignaturesSelf Portrait 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
“Sometimes a collage element I hit upon can inspire the entire drawing.” SometimesInspireElementsDrawingCollages Author:Laura Owens
“In terms of my inspirations to become an artist, I think they come from early ideas and impressions about community, and the type of community I wanted to be in, and the type of thinking I wanted to do.” ThinkingIdeasInspirationWantedArtistTermCommunityTypeImpression Author:Laura Owens
“In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering - which was a nightmare scenario for me. Meeting other artists and going to punk rock shows at that age, there was a feeling of freedom and community that I wanted to partake in.” ShowsFeelingsAgeWantedSchoolArtistCommunityRocksHigh SchoolMathematicsMeetingsMathNightmarePunkEngineeringScenariosPunk Rock Author:Laura Owens
“Co-mingling really disturbs a lot of the purists, who want to see the historical and cultural divides instead of the meshing.” WantHistoricalDividesMingling Author:Laura Owens