Laura Owens

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1970s

Laura Owens is born in Euclid, Ohio.

1990s

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Laura Owens earns her MFA from CalArts in 1994.

After Skowhegan, Laura Owens finds a studio space in Eagle Rock, California.

Rebecca Morris and Laura Owens meet and become roommates at the summer program of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.

Rebecca Morris interviews Laura Owens for an article in Art Muscle.

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Rebecca Morris and Laura Owens often play basketball with other artists, including Mari Eastman, Mark Grotjahn, and Tyson Reeder.

While dating, Laura Owens and Jorge Pardo collaborate on an exhibition at Patrick Painter Inc.

When Rebecca Morris first moves to Los Angeles, she rents a studio in the Eagle Rock building where Laura Owens and many other artists have studios.

2010s

Laura Owens, Wendy Yao (founder of the bookstore Ooga Booga), and Owens’s dealer Gavin Brown found 356 Mission in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. It begins as Owen’s studio.

356 Mission opens to the public.

Aaron Curry, Laura Owens, and Sterling Ruby are included in the group exhibition Variations: Conversations in and Around Abstract Painting.

Laura Owens’s space 356 Mission hosts a solo exhibition of Rebecca Morris’s work.

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