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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Laura Owens

Feb 4 – May 5, 2020
Amsterdam 123-B, Hipódromo Condesa, Cuauhtémoc, 06100 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico

“Vaguely familiar and acutely strange,” is how the critic Peter Schjeldahl describes the paintings of Laura Owens, which range from small pieces to large canvases, from inconspicuous to in-your-face. Experimental without being forbidding, Owen draws from Impressionist masters and children’s fables, American Folk art and digital imaging. Her vibrant work, distinguished by its light touch, is on display in Mexico for the first time. —E.C.