“I feel like there’s a space of personal freedom for me where my art-making happens,” says the artist Laura Owens. “When I go to that space, I’m completely in this world of possibility.” The avant-garde painter, who lives and works in Los Angeles, now comes to New York after an absence of nearly a decade. An immersive exhibition at the Matthew Marks Gallery showcases her new paintings, sculptures, and books—many of which are connected to kinetic objects. When it comes to Owens’s work, the critic Kirsty Bell writes, “There is always more room to be surprised.” —Carolina de Armas