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Owen Brown has degrees from Yale and the University of Chicago. In the 1980’s he studied painting at California College of Arts in Oakland, California, where his teachers included Philip Morsberger and Jack Mendenhall. For many years resident in San Francisco, he moved to Minneapolis in 2016. He has exhibited in juried shows and solo exhibits throughout the United States. His paintings have been acquired by institutions as varied as the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Nature Conservancy, and Amalgamated Bank, and can be found in collections in the US, Europe, and Asia. He was the recipient of residencies at Air Le Parc in July 2017 and at the Land Institute in October 2018, where he created his first sculptural installation: “Units of Measure”. He was an official invitee at Art Prize Nine. In 2020, he will be collaborating with noted choreographer Anat Shinar, on her latest work: “No Hard Feelings.” His art has been favorably reviewed in such publications as The San Francisco Chronicle, Vostos, the Exeter Bulletin, The Land Report, A2, and Paragon. Meridian Gallery Press published a monograph of his work for the opening of his show “Ideasthesia” (2015) and his work was included in the Society for Art Publications of America’s final publication, “Trees of the Field.” (2017). Owen Brown is represented nationally by Holly Hunt, Art Partners, and Gallery13. I was taught in the figurative tradition, but I also work rather abstractly, and I don’t always have a theme that I want to put forth. I don’t know how I will finish when I start, except that there is something within that I want to express, something that I want to build, something that I want to say. Painting is not the same as speech, even when it is depicting a scene. We leap to the story, but it is the story behind the story, behind speech, that is my subject matter. My work is about longing, time, and emotion