Lot Essay
'Many of her paintings use landscape elements as a major part of their subject matter, but in a breezily oneiric manner. They reflect certain aspects of the familiar world, but at the same time offer blueprints for an entirely imaginary one. This is not a distortion, but an accentuation of a southern Californian reality in which every view out of the window is a reminder of invented geographies and of uncontrolled climate experiments'
(R. Mengham, in Laura Owens, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Zrich, Zurich, 2006, p. 25).
(R. Mengham, in Laura Owens, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Zrich, Zurich, 2006, p. 25).