Owen James Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Owen James Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Chiaozz “Paper Pulp”
The newest series of paintings in Chiaozz’s solo exhibition are a celebration of color, gesture and form. Chiaozza (Adam Frezza & Terri Chiao) infuse their work with a wonderful combination of whimsical...More »
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China Marks “Ghosts In The Machine”
Ghosts In The Machine is the third solo presentation of China Marks’ work at Owen James Gallery. A prolific artist, Marks continues to blaze her unique aesthetic path through a combination of textile...More »
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Mark Mann “Souvenir”
Mark Mann is a surveyor of “Americanism.” The fabled American Dream was long ago relabeled a myth. And yet, it continues to be pulled by two opposing forces: a myopic nostalgia versus an angry, factual...More »
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“Veils Of Central Asia: Craft & Context” Exhibition
Owen James Gallery presents a private collection of Islamic veils from Central Asia. Dating to the Mid-20th Century, the veils offer a unique insight into the craft traditions, history and culture of the...More »
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David Sandlin “Belfaust”
From the late 1960s until 1998, Northern Ireland suffered through The Troubles: an era of severe political and sectarian violence, which was particularly brutal in the cities of Derry and Belfast. It emerged...More »
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Karen Marston “Fire Season”
Strong, mighty Hephaistos, bearing splendid light, unwearied fire, with flaming torrents bright: strong-handed, deathless, and of art divine, pure element, a portion of the world is thine: all-taming...More »
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“Music For The End Of Time” Exhibition
Music For The End Of Time brings three contemporary artists together for the first time: Fanny Allié, China Marks and David B. Smith. All three artists have made fabrics and textiles central to their creative...More »
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Rachael Gorchov “Concavity”
In March of 2020, the Covid pandemic forced our gallery to close on the eve of Rachael Gorchov’s solo exhibition Concave. In the ensuing months, the gallery sat devoid of people yet full of beautiful artwork...More »
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David Kramer “Essential Oils”
This modern world has not turned out to be the gauzy utopia we were once promised, and David Kramer is here to tell us all about it. The paintings of David Kramer are full of self-deprecating humor, irony...More »
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“The Trunk Show” Exhibition
This fun group exhibition highlights a number of small-format artworks, all within a price range that makes them perfect gift ideas for the holiday season. On view are a wide variety and combinations of...More »
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CHIAOZZA “Cascades and Crescendos”
Working under the collaborative name CHIAOZZA, artists Adam Frezza and Terri Chiao’s creations inhabit the bright intersection where the aesthetics of work meet play, where color theory melds with surface...More »
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Gary Gissler and Huston Ripley Exhibition
Gissler and Huston Ripley work primarily through black and white, intensely detailed drawings and paintings, both artists push past material and mark to expose and explore something far more primary. Their...More »
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Björn Meyer-Ebrecht “Uprising”
Uprising brings together two complementary aspects of German artist Björn Meyer-Ebrecht’s work. In both his ink-on-paper drawings and his painted-wood platforms one can see direct and indirect references...More »
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Elin Rødseth “Amblers”
Elin Rødseth is a Norwegian printmaker whose ghostly vignettes contemplate the vagaries of Modern Life. The anonymous figures in her work struggle with the weight of trust, fatigue and the banality of...More »
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“The Thick Lines Between Here And There” Exhibition
This dual-gallery exhibition brings four of Thailand’s most admired abstract painters together for the first time, offering a bold view into the country’s burgeoning & reinvigorated contemporary art...More »
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David Sandlin “Age of Enfrightenment”
David Sandlin is a prolific, critical voice mining the badlands of American culture and history. His allegorical works combine dense and lush imagery with satirical texts and are presented in paintings,...More »
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Mark Mann “O Uncolored People”
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Karen Marston “Harbingers”
Karen Marston’s paintings are portraits of the awe-inspiring power of Nature. For the last several years she has concentrated on the dangers of man-made climate change through its effects on natural systems...More »
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China Marks Exhibition
China Marks creates beautifully chaotic works that are inspiring, new hybrids of embroidery, drawing, and collage. Her dense process-driven creations can initially be described as drawing with thread into...More »
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Jeff Schwarz “Cut Outs”
Owen James Gallery presents the maiden exhibition in our new Manhattan location: Jeff Schwarz - Cut Outs. Jeff Schwarz primarily works with ceramics. However, his practice as an artist encompasses...More »
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Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn “Illuminate Surfaces”
Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn is the founder of Studio 1 Thousand, a Brooklyn-based lighting design studio that specializes in complex LED installations. These are often placed in large architectural settings,...More »
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Dina Gadia “Malady of Association”
Owen James Gallery presents its second Dina Gadia solo exhibition: Malady of Association. Dina Gadia is a multi-media artist based in The Philippines, working primarily in collage, but also paint and...More »
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Takuji Hamanaka “Weaving Light”
Owen James Gallery presents our second solo Takuji Hamanaka exhibition. In this new series, Takuji Hamanaka has introduced a vibrant sense of light and color to his unique collages. Combined with his...More »
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Chiaozza “Wall Works”
Chiaozza is the collaborative name of the artistic duo Adam Frezza & Terri Chiao. Their practice integrates a relationship between color, structure and play. Chiaozza explores these notions primarily...More »
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Sue Stone “Displaced”
Time, memory and family are at the heart of Sue Stone’s mixed-media works. She merges the past and the present to connect personal histories and local identities through dream-like narratives. Starting...More »
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Rachael Gorchov “Organic Geometry”
Owen James Gallery presents “Organic Geometry”, featuring a new ceramics by Rachael Gorchov. Gorchov considers herself primarily a painter, albeit one working with dimensional forms. For the the last...More »
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Björn Meyer-Ebrecht “Structural Constellations”
German-born artist Björn Meyer-Ebrecht approaches the legacy of Internationalist Modernism with a sense of intellectual detachment. Through his drawings and sculptures, the artist investigates both the...More »
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“The New Normal” Exhibition
The world today is a twisted reality, as a negative zeitgeist now predominates. Moving forward through each day it feels that we are walking further and further backward. Progress is a dirty word, truth...More »
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Nikki Luna “Play Ground”
Nikki Luna is a multi-media artist who creates sculptures and installations that deal with a number of social issues. Through her studio practice and travels, Luna has explored and conceptualized situations...More »
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PHUNK Exhibition
Owen James Gallery presents, in association with Art Seasons Gallery of Singapore, a solo exhibition of PHUNK Studio. The gallery is proud to open this exhibition in collaboration with Asia Contemporary...More »
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Karen Marston “Demeter’s Wrath”
Karen Marston is a painter focused on the fundamental contradiction of natural phenomena, the pairing of powerful terror with majestic beauty. Her large-scale oil paintings portray this strength at its...More »
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Charles Bukowski & Walter Robinson “There’s A Bluebird In My Heart”
The pairing of poet Charles Bukowski and painter Walter Robinson is not as unconventional as it might seem at first. In his poetry and prose, Bukowski pulls no punches in his depictions of a life filled...More »
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China Marks “Not Quite Human”
Our next exhibition features the drawings of China Marks, which are dynamic dramas made by collaged fabric and tapestry fragments with embroidered text, digitally sewn sketches and other found elements....More »
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“Disquieting Vicinities” Exhibition
This is an exhibition about slightly sinister landscapes. Four artists are included in the exhibition, with one artwork selected from each. All four artists have unique takes on landscape, with a variety...More »
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Dex Fernandez “310E44R822”
Dex Fernandez is a graffiti artist from Manila, Philippines, He combines the frenzied energy and speedy overall-designs of his street murals and characters with mixed-media constructions to produce eccentrically...More »
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“Strange Days” Exhibition
The title for this exhibition references the eponymous song by The Doors, in which all that is normal or mundane can quickly be turned upside-down, nonsensical and perverse. The three artists in this exhibition...More »
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“Materials / Abstraction” Exhibition
Materials / Abstraction is a group exhibition of emerging and established artists who approach abstraction through the use of diverse materials. Degrees of abstraction are represented, from the hidden...More »
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Dina Gadia “Non Mint Copy”
Dina Gadia is a mixed media artist who subverts the artifice often found in the commercial and popular culture influences in her native Philippines. Through her reuse of vintage material, Gadia reveals...More »
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Elin Rødseth “Passersby”
Elin Rødseth fills her world with strangers: the vaguely familiar people we pass on a busy street or in a crowded room. These encounters are both intimate and withdrawn, as the faceless drifters give us...More »
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Takuji Hamanaka “Negative Circle”
Takuji Hamanaka is a master of two worlds. Trained as a professional woodblock printmaker at the Adachi Studio in Tokyo, Japan, the artist has a deep understanding of this pivotal Japanese art form. Since...More »
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Richard Bosman “Death and the Sea”
Somewhere in the South Pacific a volcano slowly simmers and then bursts into fiery majesty, destroying all life that once clung to it. On a moonlit voyage a man ends his life by leaping over the rail...More »