{"id":25632,"date":"2023-07-28T22:56:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T22:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/?p=25632"},"modified":"2023-07-28T23:08:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T23:08:31","slug":"owen-westberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/owen-westberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Owen Westberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Owen Westberg (b. 1986, Pittsburgh) received an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. His work has been included in recent exhibitions at Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles; and Dunes, Portland, ME.<\/p>\n

Lake<\/i> is his first solo exhibition<\/a>. Westberg lives and works in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor over a decade, Owen has been painting discreet scenes in oil on smoothed birch panels or aluminum flashings that fit smartly into a purse or piece of hand luggage: late afternoon landscapes, round, glowy fruits, a fictional painter or pair of sneakers, tinted windows on a corporate building, and often, patterned fabrics. He paints these low-stakes subjects with wet, slightly oversized brushes that approximate rather than articulate. His marks are straightforward yet sensitive. Never sentimental. Tender but not sweet, and a bit unhinged\u2014as if in a rush to get it all down. His color\u2014always exact\u2014pulls clarity from a hand that favors a wobbly line over a straight one. Simple shifts from cool grey to warm champagne cast a rippled cloth into full relief. The palette is limited but nuanced\u2014 soft ochre, medieval blues, kiwi, terracotta and buttercream, and the regular colors: yellow, orange, navy\u201d \u2013 Anna Glantz<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Owen Westberg placemat, 2022 Oil on panel 10 x 8 inches 25.4 x 20.3 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Owen Westberg ruin, 2023 Oil on aluminum flashing 7 x 5 inches 17.8 x 12.7cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Owen Westberg editorial, 2021 Oil on birch panel 12 x 3 inches 30.5 x 7.5 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Owen Westberg (b. 1986, Pittsburgh) received an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. His work has been included in recent exhibitions at Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles; and Dunes, Portland, ME. Lake is his first solo exhibition. Westberg lives and works in Pittsburgh. \u201cFor over a decade, Owen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interview","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25656,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25632\/revisions\/25656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}