September 20 – October 26, 2025
GRO Artist Renée Owen presents the solo exhibition: Adrift: A Landscape of Loss, showing meticulously hand-formed tactile sculptures and books as poetic metaphors of human displacement and loss in a fragile natural world.
Owen pays special attention to the tactile and physical qualities of her materials: handmade paper, felt, cyanotype, stitching, discarded and repurposed objects, wire, porcupine quills. The work is often abstract, and Owen’s titles guide us to the themes. The sculpture Taking on Water refers to sinking migrant boats, and she hand-stitched the piece Mending the Broken Bits, as an art practice for healing.
The piece Letting the Light Leak Through is about opening our eyes to what is happening on the planet. Owen writes: There is an intense amount of grief, and we hardly know how to sit with it all. One way is to work with my hands, choosing and shaping materials intuitively, learning what they have to tell me. Stories that settle in my heart come out in the work.
More at www.reneeowenartandpoetry.com