Columbiana, AL, United States
Scott Vaughn Owen’s art lives at the intersection of chaos and control, where raw emotion collides w...
About the artist
Joined In 2013
(28 Followers)
About the artist
Joined In 2013
(28 Followers)
Scott Vaughn Owen’s art lives at the intersection of chaos and control, where raw emotion collides with bold geometry and color. His canvases pulse with energy—faces fractured into shards, figures erupting in jagged lines, graffiti marks tangled with symbols, abstractions breaking into meaning. At once playful and confrontational, his work embraces imperfection, layering spontaneity with deliberate rhythm, much like the rhythm of the streets and the struggles of the human heart.
Owen’s practice is deeply rooted in duality: strength and fragility, silence and eruption, identity and mask. He paints not to polish the world but to reveal its fractures, its unfinished edges, its restless humanity. Each piece feels like both a battle and a release—sometimes a storm of scribbles and drips, sometimes sharp planes of color that lock into place.
In his art, the human condition is not softened or hidden—it is fragmented, rebuilt, and given new voice. His work challenges viewers to see beauty in dissonance, to find resilience in brokenness, and to recognize themselves in the fierce, imperfect figures that stare back from the canvas
University of Montevallo
2015 Solo Show- Shelby County Arts Council, Columbiana, Alabama
Solo Show - Montevallo Gallery, Montevallo, Al
2019 Kentuck Gallery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
2020 Solo Show, Shelby County Arts Council, Columbiana, Alabma
2021 The Other Art Fair, Dallas Texas
2022 Solo Exhibit Carnegie Visual Arts Center, Decatur,
Alabama
2024 Solo Exhibit Isabel Anderson Comer Museum, Sylacauga, Alabama
2025 Solo Exhibition Huntsville International Airport, Huntsville, Alabama
Showed at the The Other Art Fair
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