Laura Owens @ MOCA

This weekend I went to an exhibition of Laura Owens’ work, a contemporary painter, at the LA Museum of Contemporary Art. Highly recommended.


I started reading The Artist’s Way by Julian Cameron last week, a workbook/course for being creative. Although the spiritual verbiage makes me cringe at times, the content definitely works for me. One of the exercises in the book is to take yourself on an “artist date” once per week – this week I went to this exhibition of Laura Owens’ work that I learned about from an advertisement on a bus bench.

A few words I would use to describe the exhibition: whimsical, huge, textural, accessible, satisfying, globs, playful, maternal. And here are a few photos: