LAURA OWENS | Untitled

Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1999 

Walead Beshty and Gavin Brown et. al., Laura Owens, New York 2015, cat. no. 141, p. 234, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Laura Owens, 2017, p. 248, illustrated in color

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of very minor wear and handling along the edges. Approximately 1/3 of the way from the top edge, on each of the lateral sides, there are very small indentations from where the stretcher bars were joined, inherent to the work and from time of execution. Upon close inspection, there is evidence of minor accretion approximately 10 in. from the right edge and 29 in. from the bottom edge. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Unframed.
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"I really want paintings to be problems...so that the painting is coming out at you and asking you to put things together. Why is this painted on a newspaper-like ground? Why is everything so disparate? It gives you more chances to level these hierarchies and talk about heterogeneity, because here’s a reference to Matisse and then a children’s mural, and you get to slam those two things together in the same exhibition, two different ways of making."  Laura Owens