http://patrickowens.art/vintage daily 0.75 2021-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1388332571598-LK2IJX1K2Y3S5QG6UWH8/torch.jpg Vintage - The Torch Cafe & Truck Stop OPEN 24 HOURS Large Dining Room and Coffee Shop Steaks, Sea Foods, Bar-B-Que or Regular meals served daily. Complete Truck Service. Jct. U. S. highways 29 and 80 TUSKEGEE, ALABAMA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1388332571598-LK2IJX1K2Y3S5QG6UWH8/torch.jpg Vintage - The Torch Cafe & Truck Stop OPEN 24 HOURS Large Dining Room and Coffee Shop Steaks, Sea Foods, Bar-B-Que or Regular meals served daily. Complete Truck Service. Jct. U. S. highways 29 and 80 TUSKEGEE, ALABAMA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1388340334897-JXOOMMTX09C7L8ISNUQE/DSC_2872.jpg Vintage - Tuskegee, AL 1958 This is one of several hundred 24"x24" aerial photos of Macon County that I found in the abandoned Macon County Hospital. Several of the photographs depict the future route of I-85, which was just getting under way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1388339850300-8BFPF9CQ8DT40K4JBMBM/12291301.jpg Vintage - Apollo Owens and Sons Dairy stationery from the family farm in Tuskegee. The Apollo drawing was made by my brother for a school mythology project around 1980. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1388332571542-PAJUZF0YURNYYG1QI60M/maconsoilmapprint.jpg Vintage - Soil Map Macon County, AL 1904 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1480185619402-NI457WI72K5ZVRWBJRLK/Scan+9.jpg Vintage - Greetings from Tuskegee, ALA postmarked October 10, 1918 Hello Leona, I'm filling in pretty good. This is some residences in the town of Tuskegee. Was out looking over on aeroplane today. Well Girlie I'm going to the drill field now so good bye. yours as ever, Pete https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1481041425368-E0PMHBSBJGUPVBTDKQYW/Scan.jpg Vintage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1480691748864-SHT5B54FLRORNBMJK7JK/image048.jpg Vintage - Farm Scenes postmarked August 28, 1951 Greetings from Mr. & Mrs. J.S. Boyd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1480185598679-HB4I81GB3KS1NJCVRP1O/img052.jpg Vintage - Scene near TUSKEGEE, Ala. postmarked January 13, 1929 Dear Mom, We are in this place tonight, not much of a place. This are the best cards I could get here. Next state is Fla. so we should be there before long. Have been to show tonight. I feel better. Love from us all to you and Mrs. C. Maria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1471714785859-JOKZ9FLMCGL3OIFJ1VYO/euphaupee.jpg Vintage - On the Euphaupee postmarked April 4, 1907 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1471714837599-354PW9D3IR9ZGG684XEY/lakeviewcafe.jpg Vintage - Lakeview Cafe One half mile east of Tuskegee, Ala. On U. S. Highways 29 & 80. Complete Dinners . . Short Orders . . Sandwiches We never close - Air Conditioned Mr. & Mrs. M. R. Lancaster owners-operators   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1480691837069-36QOJRLQFWEN0IKUL3D5/image049.jpg Vintage - Tuskegee Community House The Tuskegee Community House, erected in 1937, is of English architecture. The interior of this building has historical setting. Old stage-coach wheels and oxen yoke of ancient oak blend with the beams and stone fire- places. Adjoining the building is the City swimming pool, and also the Tuskegee Athletic Field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1388326233103-D79HIOGKPIS9L8ZK2OM8/Ycourt007.jpg Vintage - The "Y" Motor Court and Cafe Junction Highways 80 and 29, 8 miles east of Tuskegee, Ala. 14 modern heated cottages equipped with beauty- rest mattresses, private baths, hot and cold showers, ex- cellent food, specializing in pit barbecue chicken and steak. Mail address Route 1, Tuskegee, Ala. Phone 1098W3. Family operated, Joe S. Bruner, Proprietor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1388326224827-9BSL2OQJISCKK7GWVK5W/img038.jpg Vintage - Y Motor Court, Cafe & Gift Shop Y Motor Court, Cafe & Gift Shop, located 8 mi. east of Tuskegee, Ala. Junction Highway 29-80. 14 Modern Air- conditioned cabins; tile bath, panel ray heat, 24-hour- service. Air-conditioned dining room, specializing in pit barbecue, chicken and steaks. Mr. & Mrs. Joe S. Bruner, Prop. and Mgr. Phone 1098-W3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1471714864942-9J7ZAXHTCNTSWHBNXVH2/ymotorcourt.jpg Vintage - Y Motor Court, Cafe & Gift Shop Y Motor Court, Cafe & Gift Shop, located 8 mi. east of Tuskegee, ALa. Junction Highway 29-80. 14 Modern Air-conditioned cabins; tile bath, panel ray heat, 24-hour-service. Air-conditioned dining room, specializing in pit barbecue, chick- en and steaks. Mr. & Mrs. Joe S. Bruner, Prop. and Mgr. Phone 1098-W3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1471714906152-LWHO85LSF2PIXK2BICUT/ymotel.jpg Vintage - The Y Motel, Cafe & Gift Shop The Y Motel Cafe & Gift Shop U. S. Highway 29 & 80 - 8 miles East of Tuskegee, Ala. Phone 53, Tuskegee Owners: Mr. & Mrs. Joe Bruner Fully Air-Conditioned - Free Room T.V. - Wall- To-Wall Carpets - Tile Baths - Tubs & Showers. 24 Hr. Dining Room Service. Home Cooked Food. Specialize in Pit Barbeque - T-Bone Steak & Southern Fried Chicken. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1388326228998-ZS3X82AJ9SCBI6XZ1MBI/img039.jpg Vintage - The Y Motel, Cafe and Gift Shop THE Y MOTEL, CAFE AND GIFT SHOP, Lo- cated 8 miles East of Tuskegee, Alabama. Junction Highway 29 and 80. 20 Modern rooms Air Conditioned, TV, Panelray heat. 24 hour service. Dining room, specializing in Pit Bar- becue, Southern fried chicken, and Western T Bone Steaks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1388332572482-2X7MYFTHRPN2AUWF3SKH/ycafematchbook.jpg Vintage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1388332573369-G50XAQOLCE9E7A66T175/ycafematchbook2.jpg Vintage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1480185826786-TYIT86FSYBMZ4ZV6JI5M/img039.jpg Vintage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1388332569356-P9Z3OJA4E5JQUFMW1WT4/patscafematchbook.jpg Vintage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1388332820154-37H5GB0SFAYLTVGA0ESC/airmenmatchbook.jpg Vintage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1471714932571-VVK9XP3WWZSF7T2NG80T/fortunes.jpg Vintage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1471714956079-VHXZUKJMC5D12DPKGPGA/isntitgreat.jpg Vintage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1480692018087-0131H3ZD5AWHAWUYOIKG/image050.jpg Vintage The hotel my parents stayed at on their wedding night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1480692101348-KGR21MBTUHBNGF6HDLJ6/image051.jpg Vintage The hotel my parents stayed at on their wedding night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1480185740199-8OK1C635AZLB01CYW7O2/pleasantspringsgrocery.jpg Vintage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1480185725133-TTXD8UY9FSPZ1RG345G3/img040.jpg Vintage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1480185709811-PYSWF8JH5X12MF8F9DND/Scan+4.jpg Vintage http://patrickowens.art/large-format2 daily 0.75 2021-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1603202811930-VFZU8EEE9S6WOTMKYRGH/muddbogg.jpg Large Format - Mudd Bogg Eclectic 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1603554689543-XA8FBMSI9IOOT27SRTU1/MammawsSwing_2015.jpg Large Format - Mammaw's Swing Ruth 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1632774690706-Y5G94MIAUGSYVF0JB1UY/Tuskegee_2020_72.jpg Large Format - Confederate Square Tuskegee 2020 http://patrickowens.art/sculpture daily 0.75 2021-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1635983934044-E04QPJA5E3IM5M0N7BPR/image-asset.jpeg Sculpture - Quality Work 2020, found objects Quality Work is a piece regarding corporate greed in America, partly evidenced by the red, white & blue color scheme of the two signs. When I began assembling this work, I was specifically thinking about the family dairy farm in Tuskegee, AL and how my family was forced to declare bankruptcy once the banks called in the loans. I was also thinking about ideas such as wage theft, ageism, employers fighting against unionization, and the loss of manufacturing jobs to overseas companies. The aesthetics of the assemblage resemble the office of a textile mill, abundant in Greenville, SC where I live, once touted as the textile capital of the world. The wood paneling is also reminiscent of my grandmother’s house, which was covered wall to wall in the stuff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1635983934044-E04QPJA5E3IM5M0N7BPR/image-asset.jpeg Sculpture - Quality Work 2020, found objects Quality Work is a piece regarding corporate greed in America, partly evidenced by the red, white & blue color scheme of the two signs. When I began assembling this work, I was specifically thinking about the family dairy farm in Tuskegee, AL and how my family was forced to declare bankruptcy once the banks called in the loans. I was also thinking about ideas such as wage theft, ageism, employers fighting against unionization, and the loss of manufacturing jobs to overseas companies. The aesthetics of the assemblage resemble the office of a textile mill, abundant in Greenville, SC where I live, once touted as the textile capital of the world. The wood paneling is also reminiscent of my grandmother’s house, which was covered wall to wall in the stuff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1604347503062-4VATDG9DPPJMKY2MQ3ED/023C9823-1CD5-4392-AFAF-71165BDF1991.jpg Sculpture - Quality Work 2020, found objects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1604347506890-ARVMX0SJT9OS5JU0PTRB/IMG_4533.jpg Sculpture - Welcome Home 2020, found objects Welcome Home represents the fragments of memory. All the items collected here reference the home; linoleum from the kitchen, wallpaper from the living room, a handmade quilt, etc. The items also have a particular age – the age of my grandparents. I only ever knew my paternal grandparents, and they both died when I was young, so the memories I have of them are only fragments. This piece is also an ode to Walker Evans and William Christenberry. Most of the objects were collected from locations around Moundville in Hale County, AL, including Mills Hill where Evans photographed for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Christenberry’s Guinea Church. The quilt top was purchased from America’s Thrift Store in Tuscaloosa, directly across the street from Memory Hill Gardens where Christenberry is buried. An extra little tidbit, the shotgun shells were collected along the road between Mills Hill and China Grove Church. The dirt road turns into an unkept forest road with extreme ruts. Well, while cussing and walking back up the road towards Mills Hill as I waited for a tow truck, I happened to glance down and see the shotgun shells. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1604347484108-X5ERGIZYGOPSL910TDWO/IMG_4532.jpg Sculpture - Welcome Home 2 2020, found objects Welcome Home 2 is a companion piece to Welcome Home. In it I am playing with the same ideas of the first assemblage with added components representing home – a picket fence, Coca Cola bottles, and clothing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1604347489403-AJ45UL6P5SVDD5R9CRR3/IMG_4535.jpg Sculpture - Bottle Rockets 2020, found objects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1610323968624-T6H3NQFIBOE8M9HXP3RK/image-asset.jpeg Sculpture - Quality Work 2020, found objects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1604345637746-3HZMA1VQMGAP6AY1GASR/_DSC3895.jpg Sculpture - American Pride 2020, found objects American Pride is simply the culmination of years of feelings as I watched in daily disbelief at was happening in our country during the Trump administration. In this work I play with repetition of shape, triangles and vertical lines bisecting ovals, and a bit of color mixing with red, blue, and purple. The piece directly relates to an abandoned house that I came across in Marion, AL. As I approached the house, there were several American flags draped across the porch, and inside I saw this great mirror frame sitting above the fireplace with a purple flower attached to it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1603375997973-TUUNXTHTOGB8LVWSWYGI/BlueMary.jpg Sculpture - Whitewashed 2020, found objects Whitewashed started as an exercise in how to relate two seemingly unrelated objects, both of which had been painted over. I decided that I could connect the two objects by playing with leading lines, white paper tapes with blue lines running down the middle, so the eyes could travel from each object – white to blue and blue to white. I realized that each object represented power in some way; the fallout shelter sign representing nuclear power, Mary representing the power of religion or the church, and the paper tapes recorded electrical power usage. I then began to think of ideas such as evidence often being whitewashed by the powerful; for instance, consider how the Bush administration lied about Saddam Hussein’s proliferation of WMDs or how the Catholic Church is seemingly always in the news because of priests’ inappropriate relationships with children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1603376012378-ZXST3FBI9Z7YPN5L01PD/NoTrespassing.jpg Sculpture - No Trespassing 2020, found objects William Christenberry said the reason he made his “building constructions” was that he had an overwhelming desire to physically own a particular structure. There was a gourd tree in Tallassee, AL that I had photographed, and I also wanted to physically own the object, so much so that I literally intended to bring it back home with me on one trip. Unfortunately, the gourd tree had already been removed from the property. Well, the next best thing was to create my own gourd tree inspired by the one I photographed. So began No Trespassing. I “scoured” the land looking for the right parts. Relating the work back to Alabama, other than just memory, the base is filled with Alabama soil, the gourds were purchased from a farmer in Horton, and the wooden 2x10s are the frame of an old marquee sign that my grandfather helped build for the family church in Notasulga. The rotten eagle was the icing on the cake, something that I had looked at every day for years on my way to and from work. This piece speaks to the historically unwelcoming nature of the United States – the supposed land of the free – with the genocide of native peoples and slavery of Africans and more recently the “Muslim Ban” and the hatred spewed at Asian Americans because of the “China Virus” and so on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1603376117307-TRKCD0PTP1H8V2WMI1X7/OdetomyBrother.jpg Sculpture - DuChump, Ode to my brother 2020, found objects This work was inspired by my brother, who upon seeing the amount of junk that I had accumulated in our studio remarked; "Who do you think you are, Marcel DuCHUMP?!" The work references Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel (1913) and is indicative of his use of the readymade. I play with color and repetition throughout the piece: yellow and blue lead to green, green and orange lead to brown; two rotating fans, two Mason jar lids, two clamps, two bottles; even the shape of the hanging cord mimics the tail of the weathervane. The work is human scale, being a similar height to myself, and I like to think of the piece as two people having a conversation. The conversation is regarding the rebranding that companies have been making over the last few years. Product iconography that portrays racial stereotypes, such as Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and even Mrs. Butterworth, is being overhauled to align with more responsible 21st-century understanding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1636052427258-MPHHMJBMS9Z3MQSL6QAO/image-asset.png Sculpture - DuChump (Ode to my brother) 2020, found objects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1603376117763-AYHPL0AR0Y8P2F1AP5HT/OdetoPa.jpg Sculpture - Ode to Pa 2020, found objects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1603376007551-BXIOI59472GUJ5KMOHMD/HeadlessBirdinFlight.jpg Sculpture - Headless Bird in Flight (Brancusi) 2020, found objects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1603376006343-ASNA0O8OMX9JUD1OMOPJ/CirclesWithinaCircle.jpg Sculpture - Circles in a Circle (Kandinsky) 2020, found objects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1632778808051-P7Y1AB4WTDHQJ3E6V7RM/SouthernExperience.JPG Sculpture - Southern Experience 2018, found objects Southern Experience began with one word, vernacular. Vernacular is a term that I’ve often used to describe my photography. When looking at the definition of the term, I pulled out words such as common, unmonumental, ordinary, domestic, functional, and expanded the definition beyond merely spoken language and architecture. I wrote a list of common, everyday items that to me represented the South. A list that included a lot of food – biscuits, gravy, grits, nanner puddin’, bbq, okra, but also items such as cotton, cicadas, red clay, and Spanish moss. I knew I wanted to use a Berg motion display cabinet to showcase the objects, I always loved playing with those rotating shelves as a kid when visiting antique stores with my mom. Obviously, some things on my list would be a little difficult to display, and I ended up choosing natural materials, although I still love the idea of having gravy in a sculpture. Pertaining to memory, the presentation with the chair sitting in front of the cabinet, inviting viewers to participate, is reminiscent of watching nature shows when I was younger. Seeing as these cabinets are often found in pawn shops, the piece can speak to the climate crisis and how we are pawning off our natural resources, and how perhaps one day the only way we might be able to experience some of these natural objects is through documentaries or natural history museums. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1604348936115-7VXQVLMKIA347G17K47J/image-asset.png Sculpture - Southern Experience 2018, found objects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1603375999238-RR8RT9LQXZENLFUEGV3C/AmericanPride.jpg Sculpture - American Pride (Marion) 2020, found objects http://patrickowens.art/instant daily 1.0 2021-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1604767249718-PRVRLS1PK6T16VVLY89T/TorchCafe_2015_72.jpg Instant - Torch Cafe Sign Tuskegee, AL 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1604768430109-JSKFIQNRLAA2YWJT0O11/SweetBethel_2020_72.jpg Instant - God Can't Catch Covid Coden, AL 2020 http://patrickowens.art/exhibitions daily 0.75 2022-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1632690902195-38VUD6EZLU9L5X0WFXY0/IMG_1626_72.jpg Exhibitions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1632691693651-MJYQPT93OQVRMZMALLG8/IMG_8663_72.jpg Exhibitions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1632769310151-MY0OZXXBWT96RBIEUF80/IMG_5904_72.jpg Exhibitions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1632693603201-3G7U17Y76X9BN1MHD3H5/B0EBBE1F-3F12-4024-9EE3-768257B2891C_72.jpg Exhibitions http://patrickowens.art/about daily 0.75 2022-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52b87003e4b0a80ae9bb2920/1603311585952-9B266SDI1JJIT8WID0K5/patinstudio.jpg About http://patrickowens.art/shop daily 0.75 2019-06-18