I think that I'm going to be including a lot of anonymous female artists in what I look at and incorporate. Most textiles are created by women. Generally, most stuff that's not in the canon is created by women.
Laura OwensIโm not sure a lot of other people would walk up to the same artwork and see the shadow on the personโs face from the hat and be like โDo you see that!โ Itโs about noticing things that interest you, and that definitely happens with the natural world as well.
Laura OwensI feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in terms of what is considered fine art, by comparison with something like a comic book or what's considered low art - is that painting should open up laterally to include other cultures and things that don't immediately resonate as a painting but are obviously of equal contribution to the genre.
Laura Owens