Simile & Metaphor: Red Necklace

Barbara Owen is a multidisciplinary artist whose current work links her studio practice with everyday life. She combines 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 analysis of the tensions between one and the other, here and there, this and that.

Gallery room view with five pieces in the frame

Gallery room view with a different five pieces in the frame mounted to the wall

Simile & Metaphor: Red Necklace, a solo show by artist Barbara Owen, was installed in the Weil Gallery at Wheaton College in Norton, MA from August 28 through November 3, 2018.

Owen delivered the Hass Visiting Artist lecture in the Ellison Auditorium on September 6, 2018. Photo Credits: Barbara Owen

Gallery room view with one wall piece and one piece on a plinth in the frame

Individual view of a single wall mounted piece consisting of what looks like yellow tangled yarn

Gallery room view with four wall pieces in the frame

Artist Barbara Owens in her studio with many wall pieces around here and drawings on paper in front

Gallery room view the yellow yarn wall piece on the wall and another yellow and black piece on a plinth in front

Gallery view of the entrance with show name on the wall, one wall piece, and one piece on a plinth