farm to fork - 5 28 17 sactop 1156a Print

TJ Owens is mostly a self taught artist who divides his time between Sauve, France and Walnut Grove, California where he has live/work and expo space. His drawings and paintings are mostly representational landscapes and figurative compositions that straddle the line between early modernism and the neo-expressionists---- "I like to mix my medias in experimental ways ---consciously expanding the materials at hand". His early landscapes have been described as-- "bold primary colorisim"--expressed in (a)"naivete characteristic fashion". His figurative works are more often noted as ---"manifest primal tensions"---and ----"slashing constructions" ending with "images built on "extreme layers of passion and strife". What ever written "definements" are used to describe his work---he appears to work generally on an "intuitive level"---- ---"there are some brief moments of recognizable cognition and at much fewer times---- forethought" His experimental approach of mixing and remixing materials/mediums continue to repeat themselves infinitely-----"morphing from one form/stage to another". TJ's raw authentic validations of his emotional, spiritual and intellectual happenings proliferate continually. "I seek to maintain a personal self satisfying mood or zone between cooperation/function and process----perhaps a very selfish motivation".