Owen Brown

Lives and works in Minneapolis, MN, USA

Artist statement

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?

Artwork

• abstract 63.24, 2024. acrylic on paper
• Five Palestinians (Gaza December 2023), 2023. acrylic on canvas
• Abstract 13.24, 2024. acrylic on watercolor paper
• Migrants on the Border, 2024. acrylic on canvas
• Black Mountain Ranch; the pasturage quadritych, 2024. acrylic on paper
• Abstract PM 28 23, 2023. acrylic on canvas
• Coco Gauff Plays Tenns, 2023. acrylic on canvas
• Visions of nothing, 2023. acrylic on canvas
• Abstract PM 12 2023, 2023. acrylic on board
• Abstract 2023.pm4, 2023. acrylic on canvas
• Abstract Post M10.23, 2023. acrylic on canvas
• Abstract 2023 pm9, 2023. acrylic on panel
• Abstract 2023.pm3, 2023. acrylic on canvas with gold leaf
• Abstract 2023.pm2, 2023. acrylic on canvas
• Abstract 2023 PM1, 2023. acrylic on canvas
• A Second Turning, installed at the Land Institute in Kansas, 2018. acrylic, flagpoles, iron wood, shells
• 325 from the "Myriorama" series, 2021. acrylic on panel
• 301, from Myriorama, 2023. string, canvas, acrylic, on Board
• Bearded Irises, from Still Life Finger Exercises, 2021. acrylic on canvas
• Ice flows on the Mississippi, 2022. spray and masking on watercolor paper
• Prince Charles learns of Diana's Infidelities, 2021. acrylic on canvas
• Abstract 2021.006 "Jacob's Treatment, First infusion Series", 2021. oil pencil on mylar
• Bronte in Minneapolis, 2022. acrylic on canvas
• Tire tracks in the snow, 2022. acrylic spray on canvas