Since first coming into prominence in the '90s and early 2000s, Laura Owens's work has offered a set of wholly new and critical ideas about painting. Propelled by the conviction that her work should prompt difficult questions about the nature of painting , Owens distinguishes her work by refusing to commit to one artistic identity. From a consideration of the Owens's varied use of line (Suzanne Hudson), the artist's brilliant redefinition of painterly...