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50 x 50 Abstract 38 Print

Owen Brown

United States

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Five years ago, Susan Rothstein, a noted San Francisco curator, asked me to be in a show with 49 other artists, at an idyllic gallery setting, somewhere down on the San Francisco Peninsula. We were each given 50 5 x 5 squares of wood, and told to ideate – 51 days later would be the show hanging, and directly after that, the Vernissage! (I had to look up vernissage, which means opening in French, and was thrown at me not by Susan, but by someone on the venue’s staff.) Actually, we had eight weeks, but you get the idea. We were supposed to do a piece a day. That was the expectation, and the task. Easy peezy? Not so fast, oh reader! Only 36 of us made it through this gauntlet of forced creativity, and I have to admit, some days, I thought that I was pulling ideas out of my kidneys. But it was lots of fun to go from painting large, to working small, and from a big brush, to a handful of prismacolor pencils. I drew this, and others, on vellum, a very translucent paper, which I then glued on to the square of wood. I had previously painted the square with some sparkly medium, hoping to get a bit of florescence, and in a final, vainglorious effort, I had imaged these drawings and made 50 very ghostly copies on acetate, using an inkjet printer, which I then glued on to the vellum. I made certain that the plastic image was different from the drawn one below it. This gives you two (count ‘em!) drawings in one, it also made photographing them nearly impossible, for which I apologize. Over the past five years I either have sold, or gave away over half. I thought the rest lost, but, having just moved studios, found them again in a corner. So here they are, at what I think’s an affordable price. They’re just little things, but they’re a reminder of a somewhat younger self, in a somewhat easier time. And in every inch, there is intentionality and love. As there should be. I hope you find them of interest, and pleasure – their purpose is your enjoyment and happiness!

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15.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. The source of my practice is the world with all its beauty and confusion – nature, so alien and alluring, the social, equally baffling but no less wonderful, and the uncomfortable friction between that, and our internal interpretations. Life eludes easy understanding or conclusion: what are we seeing when we really think about it and how did we miss it before? Bio Owen Brown was born in Chicago, trained as a classical musician, took his first art class at 23, and much of what he’s wanted to do since then has been paint. Brown holds degrees from Yale College and the University of Chicago, and was a degree student at California College of the Arts. He lived for over 30 years in San Francisco, where he was represented by Meridian Gallery. He now lives in Minneapolis. Brown has exhibited in juried shows and solo exhibits throughout the United States, Europe and Canada. His works have been acquired by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Nature Conservancy, and the Weisman Museum of Minneapolis, and can be found in collections in this country, Europe, and Asia. Brown has had residencies at Air Le Parc in France in 2017, and at the Land Institute in Kansas in 2018, where he created his first installation: “Units of Measure.” He is represented nationally by Holly Hunt and Gallery 13, he shows regionally at Veronique Wantz and Grand Hand, and has collaborated artists of other disciplines, such as Emily Wolahan, and Ashley Richardson, poets, and Anat Shinar, choreographer. His art has been reviewed or published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Vostos, the Dew Drop, the Exeter Bulletin, Aesthetica, The Land Report, A2, F3LL Magazine, Wild Roof Journal, Beyond Words, Closed Eye, The Space Between the Stars, and Paragon. Meridian Gallery Press published a monograph of Brown’s work for the opening of his show “Ideasthesia.” His work was also included in the Society for Art Publications of the America’s final publication: “Trees of the Field.” He was an invitee at Art Prize Nine and invited to show at the since-cancelled 2020 Kochi Biennale, in Kochi, India. A detailed exhibit list is available on request.

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