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Owen Brown

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Owen Brown

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I was taught in the figurative tradition, but I also work abstractly: I don’t always have a theme to put forth. I don’t know how I will finish when I start, except there is something within that I want to express, something I want to build, something I want to say. Painting is not speech, even whe...
I was taught in the figurative tradition, but I also work abstractly: I don’t always have a theme to put forth. I don’t know how I will finish when I start, except there is something within that I want to express, something I want to build, something I want to say. Painting is not speech, even when it shows a scene. We leap to story; my subject matter is the story behind story.

My work is about longing, time, emotion, loss, recovery. I keep these in mind:

From the American poet Mary Oliver:

“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”

And from the German mystic Holderlin:

“Where danger lies, there deliverance also grows.”

These help me understand the process a bit, where painting begins to reveal itself. I would paint daily, and I do so, although much of creation lies in wait for the artist. Conversely, the artist must wait for something to happen. Stillness is as important as action.

On my good days I am a painter. On my best, I am someone trying to uncover something new, so that we can have it within our range of humanity. That should be enough.

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“Owen Brown's Artworks”

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Ice Floes on the Mississippi

USD 1,900.00 Year.2022 w225.80 x h116.00 x d9.60 cm

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Orange Roses in a Memory of Noe Valley

USD 600.00 Year.2022 w35.50 x h43.10 x d2.50 cm

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abstract 2021.022 from the "Desert of Paran series"

USD 600.00 Year.2021 w31.70 x h63.50 x d1.20 cm

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bearded irises from "Still Life Finger exercises"

USD 750.00 Year.2021 w38.10 x h45.70 x d2.50 cm

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abstract 2021.003 "stripes"

USD 900.00 Year.2021 w50.80 x h40.60 x d2.50 cm

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Abstract 2021.001 "Red, White and Blue"

USD 900.00 Year.2021 w40.60 x h50.80 x d2.50 cm

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A COVID Angel in Hell, from "New COVID Series"

USD 1,400.00 Year.2021 w60.90 x h60.90 x d3.80 cm

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Minneapolis dogs with owners in winter from "the whites" series

Sold Out Year.2021 w43.10 x h35.50 x d3.80 cm

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USD $600 ~ $1,900

Biography

I studied at California College of Arts, and have degrees from Yale College and the University of Chicago. For many years I supported art and family by working as an entrepreneur in the Bay Area. After 30 years in San Francisco, where I was represented by Meridian Gallery, I moved to Minneapolis....
I studied at California College of Arts, and have degrees from Yale College and the University of Chicago. For many years I supported art and family by working as an entrepreneur in the Bay Area. After 30 years in San Francisco, where I was represented by Meridian Gallery, I moved to Minneapolis.

I have exhibited widely throughout the US and Europe, I have had residencies in the United States and France. Works have been acquired by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Nature Conservancy, and the Weisman Museum, and can be found in collections here and abroad. In Minnesota, I show at Grand Hand and Veronique Wantz, on Artsy I am represented by Gallery 13.

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