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Studies in Green, Two from the "Winter Words" series | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Owen Brown. Item composed of synthetic
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Owen Brown

Studies in Green, Two from the "Winter Words" series - Paintings

Price from $1,390 to $3,898

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Green is the "hardest color," at least according to Corot, so I thought I would have a shot in it when the curator of the Mill Yard asked me to inaugurate her space. It wasn't easy! At the last moment she asked me if I had any pieces left from my Winter Words series - abstracts that I had been painting on board. I was able to pull in two from a collector in Chicago, who graciously parted with them for the life of the show. Most have been sold now, but a few remain.

The lower price would be for a "winter words" painting, either of the green paintings would be more. I am also available for commissions.

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Item Studies in Green, Two from the "Winter Words" series
Created by Owen Brown
As seen in Private Residence, Minneapolis, MN
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Owen Brown
Meet the Creator

Owen Brown

Minneapolis, MN

Wescover creator since 2020
Only art can make articulate yearning.

I received my artistic training at Yale College and at California College of Art. My works have been collected in the US and abroad, I have pieces at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and at the Weisman Museum of Minneapolis. I have also done installations (one, covering a quarter section, is owned by the Land Institute in Salina, KS) and collaborate with artists of other practices, such as the choreographer Anat Shinar.

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 story, but it is the story behind the story, behind speech, that is my subject matter.

My work is about longing, time, emotion, loss and recovery. I keep these in mind:

From the contemporary American poet Mary Oliver:

“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”

And from the German romantic poet Holderlin:

“Where danger lies, there deliverance also grows.”

These help me understand the process a bit better, where the painting begins to reveal itself. I was trained to paint every day, and I do so, although much of creation lies in wait for the artist. Conversely, the artist himself must wait for something to happen. Stillness is as important as action.

On my good days I am a painter. On my best moments, I am someone who is trying to uncover and describe something new, so that we can have it within our range of humanity. That should be enough.