Painterly role-playing
http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/laura-owens/
“The accretion of paint is a process that occurs over a span of time, making every painting a temporal cross-section, and thus making the theme of Owens’s untitled series a meditation on its own medium. This self-reflexivity comprehends a present tense – that of Owens’s painterly rhetoric – in relation to a past: the vertiginous art-historical context out of which she picks and mixes. Her authority can be gauged by the extent to which she convinces us that painterly role-playing is an unavoidable consequence of a contemporary engagement with an atomized painting tradition, rather than an opportunistic travesty of the unknowability of history.” - Mark Prince
