About Our Gallery

Jared Owens is a visual artist whos work is included in “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” Nicole Fleetwood, received A MacArthur Genius Award in 2022. Owens’ art career began 5 years into a 18 year sentence in federal prison. Owens started as a self taught portrait artist creating work for fellow inmates. Owens eventually turned his attention to non-objective and conceptual art. Much of Owens’ material choices focus on dismantling the idea that which society discards can never have worth. His vibrant, layered style shifts and transcends the notion that abstract art cannot be politically or socially conscious. 2022 has been an extraordinary year. A studio at the Freedom Tower in NYC ,several articles in the NY Times including the Sunday Times Art Section.


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