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August 7, 2017 11:49 am PDT

The haunting art of Annie Owens

Artist Annie Owens exhibition titled A Place Worth Knowing will be on display at La Luz De Jesus gallery in LA from August 4th-28th. If you cant make it to the gallery, you should definitely check out her work on her website here.

Annies watercolor paintings are delicately haunting. They simultaneously look like antique photographs and scenes out of an eerie fantasy world. Her work features desolate landscapes and floating houses. The women in her paintings are isolated, ghostlike, and almost appear to be translucent. Here is an excerpt from Annies artists statement about A Place Worth Knowing:

As one of my favorite authors Algernon Blackwood put it, No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory....Taking my queues from Blackwoods quote, A Place Worth Knowing allegorically speaks to our habit as humans of turning away from the seemingly unknowable in ourselves and in others. Preferring to view the strange and unusual from a safe distance in much the same way mysterious and unexplored mountain ranges appear daunting and unreachable opting to observe rather than to interact.


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