Alison Owen is a multidisciplinary artist interested in the ways that art and artifacts are presented and re-presented over time. She collects outdated ephemera–art books, travel guides, and home decorating manuals–as source material for her collages and paintings. Owen also creates site specific installations and ceramic objects that use the language of museum archive and display, often incorporating objects and detritus found on site.
Alison has participated in numerous residencies, including The James Castle House in Boise, Artists Alliance in the Lower East Side, Wave Hill in the Bronx, LMCC Process Space on Governors Island, The Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, The Hambidge Center in Georgia, and id11 in Delft, the Netherlands. She was a fellow in the AIM program at the Bronx Museum of Art in 2007, and the A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship Program in 2017. In 2020, she received a grant from the Belle Foundation. She has exhibited her artwork in galleries across the United States, including Smack Mellon and AIR gallery (Brooklyn NY), the DeCordova
Museum (Lincoln, MA),The Soap Factory (Minneapolis, MN) The Providence Museum of Natural History (Providence, RI), Gold/Scopophilia (Montclair, NJ), and Staple Goods (New Orleans, LA). Her vases are sold in many shops around the world, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Open Editions and the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art in California, and Tomorrowland and FeelSeen in Japan.
Website : https://www.alisonowen.com