Owen Brown
I was born in Chicago, trained as a classical musician, took my first art class at 23, and much of what I've wanted to do since then has been paint.
I have degrees from Yale College and the University of Chicago, and was a degree student at California College of the Arts. I lived for over 30 years in San Francisco, where I was represented by Meridian Gallery. I now live in Minneapolis. I exhibit all over the place.
When asked why I paint, I fall back on this: 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?
I have degrees from Yale College and the University of Chicago, and was a degree student at California College of the Arts. I lived for over 30 years in San Francisco, where I was represented by Meridian Gallery. I now live in Minneapolis. I exhibit all over the place.
When asked why I paint, I fall back on this: 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?
Owen Brown
I was born in Chicago, trained as a classical musician, took my first art class at 23, and much of what I've wanted to do since then has been paint.
I have degrees from Yale College and the University of Chicago, and was a degree student at California College of the Arts. I lived for over 30 years in San Francisco, where I was represented by Meridian Gallery. I now live in Minneapolis. I exhibit all over the place.
When asked why I paint, I fall back on this: 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?
I have degrees from Yale College and the University of Chicago, and was a degree student at California College of the Arts. I lived for over 30 years in San Francisco, where I was represented by Meridian Gallery. I now live in Minneapolis. I exhibit all over the place.
When asked why I paint, I fall back on this: 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?