Mason Owens b. 1991, New Jersey, US

Mason Owens’s egg tempera paintings, executed on panel, bring together devotional craft with a distinctly regional eye. Rooted in the Northeastern United States, his rural landscapes, interiors, and small-town vignettes recall the clarity of memory while drawing on the painterly inheritance of Post-Impressionism - the emphasis on atmosphere, light, and sensation rather than strict topography. Egg tempera, with its luminous matte surface and capacity for subtle tonal layering, allows Owens to capture light as something both fragile and enduring, flickering across walls, fields, and sky. His compositions hold the rhythm of lived time: shadows lengthen, daylight dilates, and thresholds between states - day and night, inside and outside, memory and presence - become perceptible. The result is a body of work that feels precise yet emotionally charged, offering moments of stillness in which attention itself becomes a devotional act.

Mason Owens (b. 1991, Vineland, NJ; lives and works in Baltimore, MD) received his BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and studied at the Glasgow School of Art. Owens has held exhibitions at Megan Mulrooney, Los Angeles, CA; Steven Zevitas, Boston, MA; and Hesse Flatow, New York, NY. In summer 2026, Owens participated in the Hesse Flatow summer residency. Before returning to painting in 2020, he worked for several years as a farmer, gardener, and landscaper, later joining IATSE 487 as a scenic artist in film.