One-of-a-kind scrapbooks, songbooks, picture books, pop-up books and more make up a slow, sly, surprise-filled show at Matthew Marks Gallery.
Her midcareer survey, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, filled six large galleries and a couple of long hallways at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles with more than 60 paintings she had made since the mid-1990s. Flamboyant and grand, the L.A. artist’s
On six tables in four rooms Owens has arranged 90 books. Her inventory is extraordinary: Flip books, kids’ books and how-to books can be found among beautifully reprinted diaries, handmade scrapbooks and hand-drawn songbooks. Bee, bird and turtle books rest next to books about ants, horses and wildflowers, as well as volumes focused on cats, carrots and cream puff makers.
Picture books figure prominently. Some feature eye-popping reproductions of advertisements for candy cigarettes, frosted doughnuts and double-decker hamburgers. Others depict ghosts, gravestones and cemeteries in pencil, pastel and watercolor. Owens also employs glitter, sand and coffee grounds to illustrate her one-of-a-kind publications.
That experience — of being free to lose oneself in aimless reverie — is built into Owens’ tables. All have drawers that open to reveal more books. Some of the drawers have drawers. Appropriately, and poetically, Owens’ drawers-within-drawers house books-within-books.
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