MARILYN ANN OWENS | STONE BLOOD BONE
490 NKR
The book can be purchased at Telemark Art Centre or sent by mail (90 NOK within Norway) or abroad depending on where and how many copies. Send your request to [email protected] with your name, address and phone number.
The book is in both English and Norwegian and is published in connection with her first retrospective exhibition at Telemark Art Centre 01.14 – 03.08.2023. The book launch is held at TKS with Gina Winje in conversation with Marilyn Ann Owens, January 31.th at 6.30 PM.
With her rich production of paintings, drawings, prints and photographs over the course of a 50-year career as a visual artist, Marilyn Ann Owens holds a solid position on the Norwegian art scene. Her practice is broad and complex, and this book strives to offer a rare all-encompassing insight into the sheer range of her oeuvre. Overall, her images are dense with symbolism, often involving a confrontation with the world, the people in it or herself. The tone can vary greatly, from quiet, vulnerable, and introverted to pitch-black and fierce, yet often shot through with traces of humour and warmth. She also tends to always want to move forward, not look back, although paradoxically that is often exactly what she does.
Delving into Marilyn’s archive, we have selected a number of quotes from newspapers, catalogues and speeches over the years. They offer insight into how her art was seen and received in its own time. We have also included some of her literary sources of inspiration, sharing lines from poems by Britt Larsen and Sylvia Plath. The book and its two essays offer a full presentation of the exhibited works. The first essay covers her entire life and work and is written by art historian Nina Mauno Schjønsby and writer and translator Halvor Haugen. The second is by photographic art collector and archivist Olav Løkke, who has written about Owens as a photographer in the light of the history of fine art photography.
Telemark Art Centre is proud to present Stone Blood Bone. The book and the retrospective show are both part of a wider focus on important artistic practices with roots in Telemark.
Editor: Hilde Tørdal
Design: Ariane Spanier Design
Print: TS TRYKK i Oslo
Bookbinding: Bokbinderiet Johnsen AS i Skien
Translation: Rene Lauritsen
Published by: TKS FORLAG | TKS PUBLISHING
Copyright to artworks by Marilyn Ann Owens
© Marilyn Ann Owens / BONO 2023
© Man Ray 2015 Trust / BONO, Oslo 2023
© Ernst Schwitters / BONO, Oslo 2023
© Chris Killip / BONO, Oslo 2023
© Lewis Baltz / BONO, Oslo 2023
© Woodman Family Foundation / BONO, Oslo 2023
© Helene Amouzou / BONO, Oslo 2023
© Dora Maar / BONO, Oslo 2023
© 2022 Charles Sheeler / Image copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, Florence
© Robert Adams, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
© Lee Miller Archives, England 2022. All rights reserved. leemiller.co.uk
© The works by Daguerre, Niepce, Atkins, Cameron and le Gray are no longer copyrighted and may be freely reproduced.
ISBN 978-82-690826-4-7
Thank you for the generosity of all our benefactors for the exhibition and the book:
Norwegian Arts Council
Savings Bank Foundation Telemark
Bergesen Foundation
The Relief Fund for Visual Artists
Norwegian Art Centers KIN
Savings Bank Foundation DNB
Municipality of Porsgrunn
Vestfold and Telemark County Council
490 NKR
The book can be purchased at Telemark Art Centre or sent by mail (90 NOK within Norway) or abroad depending on where and how many copies. Send your request to [email protected] with your name, address and phone number.
The book is in both English and Norwegian and is published in connection with her first retrospective exhibition at Telemark Art Centre 01.14 – 03.08.2023. The book launch is held at TKS with Gina Winje in conversation with Marilyn Ann Owens, January 31.th at 6.30 PM.
With her rich production of paintings, drawings, prints and photographs over the course of a 50-year career as a visual artist, Marilyn Ann Owens holds a solid position on the Norwegian art scene. Her practice is broad and complex, and this book strives to offer a rare all-encompassing insight into the sheer range of her oeuvre. Overall, her images are dense with symbolism, often involving a confrontation with the world, the people in it or herself. The tone can vary greatly, from quiet, vulnerable, and introverted to pitch-black and fierce, yet often shot through with traces of humour and warmth. She also tends to always want to move forward, not look back, although paradoxically that is often exactly what she does.
Delving into Marilyn’s archive, we have selected a number of quotes from newspapers, catalogues and speeches over the years. They offer insight into how her art was seen and received in its own time. We have also included some of her literary sources of inspiration, sharing lines from poems by Britt Larsen and Sylvia Plath. The book and its two essays offer a full presentation of the exhibited works. The first essay covers her entire life and work and is written by art historian Nina Mauno Schjønsby and writer and translator Halvor Haugen. The second is by photographic art collector and archivist Olav Løkke, who has written about Owens as a photographer in the light of the history of fine art photography.
Telemark Art Centre is proud to present Stone Blood Bone. The book and the retrospective show are both part of a wider focus on important artistic practices with roots in Telemark.
Editor: Hilde Tørdal
Design: Ariane Spanier Design
Print: TS TRYKK i Oslo
Bookbinding: Bokbinderiet Johnsen AS i Skien
Translation: Rene Lauritsen
Published by: TKS FORLAG | TKS PUBLISHING
Copyright to artworks by Marilyn Ann Owens
© Marilyn Ann Owens / BONO 2023
© Man Ray 2015 Trust / BONO, Oslo 2023
© Ernst Schwitters / BONO, Oslo 2023
© Chris Killip / BONO, Oslo 2023
© Lewis Baltz / BONO, Oslo 2023
© Woodman Family Foundation / BONO, Oslo 2023
© Helene Amouzou / BONO, Oslo 2023
© Dora Maar / BONO, Oslo 2023
© 2022 Charles Sheeler / Image copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, Florence
© Robert Adams, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
© Lee Miller Archives, England 2022. All rights reserved. leemiller.co.uk
© The works by Daguerre, Niepce, Atkins, Cameron and le Gray are no longer copyrighted and may be freely reproduced.
ISBN 978-82-690826-4-7
Thank you for the generosity of all our benefactors for the exhibition and the book:
Norwegian Arts Council
Savings Bank Foundation Telemark
Bergesen Foundation
The Relief Fund for Visual Artists
Norwegian Art Centers KIN
Savings Bank Foundation DNB
Municipality of Porsgrunn
Vestfold and Telemark County Council
