Barbara Owen, "I was never there", 2020
"I was never there", 2020
found photographs, paint, birch plywood
28h x 34w x 3d inches
Website: www.barbaraowen.net
Instagram: @babsowen
About | Linking my studio practice with everyday life, I combine abstraction and personal ephemera to interrogate the relationships that break and form between them. Mixing mediums, they function together as a kind of collective memory, one that transgresses boundaries in an analyzation of the tensions between one and the other, here and there, this and that.
This work focuses on the relationship between place and time, exploring memory, relationship, and identity themes. I seek to problematize relations between objects and visual and verbal references. I am hoping to create a kind of path, so to speak, from the surface of the art object to the viewer.
The shapes I am making are the size of a video tablet or an airplane window, a shape that relates to and references a necklace or a book. Using the “window” as a metaphor for looking through, I am thinking about the inside and the outside, the interior and the exterior. An exterior landscape we see on the outside can be vastly different from an interior landscape.
$3,000.00