BRENT OWENS

Born in Spartanburg, South Carolina and currently lives and works in Queens, NY. Owens is a recipient of the 2023 National Academy of Design Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome

“The white bread sculptures are meticulously carved from maple, and reference both the super-processed food that is a large part of the American diet, and the colloquial term describing the blandness or conventionality of a bourgeois white middle class culture.”