alison owen
Black and White Pitcher, 2022, underglaze and collage on fired stoneware, $250
Vase With Arm, 2022, underglaze and collage on fired stoneware, $250
Vase With Woman, 2022, collage and oil pastel on fired stoneware, $250
Ornate Vase, 2022, paper, book cover fabric on fired stoneware, $300
Crouching Venus, 2022, colored pencil, tape, and collage on fired stoneware, $250
Little Fancy Vase, collage and fimo on fired stoneware, $300
Mended Vase, cardboard and collage on fired stoneware, $300
(Sale Pending) Mended Vase, cardboard and collage on fired stoneware, $300
(Sale Pending) Vase with Landscape, 2022, underglaze on fired stoneware, $250
(Sale Pending) Fragment Bowl, 2022, underglaze on fired stoneware, $250
Alison Owen
Alison Owen is a mixed media artist working out of her studio in Poughkeepsie, NY. Owen creates vases that hover between two and three dimensions. Each vase is made from slab-rolled clay cut into shapes like a dressmaker’s pattern and pieced together to create forms that are gently dimensional yet invoke the pictorial plane. One or both sides might be decorated with a drawing, painting, or collage depicting relics, rainbows, figures, or flowers drawn in the tradition of the still lifes that so often represent vases themselves.
Though Alison Owen’s forms appeal to the long history of excavated ceramics, the layers of embellishment fluidly move between categories. The final objects range from functional to ephemeral, some works solidly constructed and ready for everyday use, others taped together and propped against a crutch or scaffold for display. In all of her work, whether site specific installation or functional ceramics, Owen dras attention to interior space, interior life, the life of objects, and the stories they hold.