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I have long admired the graceful simplicity in Japanese art and design. Born to intrepid parents during the two-year period when they were living in Japan, I must have absorbed by osmosis the influence of the Japanese culture they found so captivating. Despite growing up in the most ordinary of places (suburban Fresno) I felt, somehow, exotic. My parents were creatives; teachers for whom the arts and travel were ardent interests. Frequent family visits to Yosemite forged a connection from my earliest years, but perhaps the greatest gifts my parents offered were their patience with my intensely inquisitive nature, and their wholehearted encouragement of my passions for ballet and drawing.
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Sally Owens is a painter working in watercolor, and a longtime member of the Yosemite community, having settled in the area in 1988. If you’ve visited The Ansel Adams Gallery you’ve likely seen her artwork; spare and subtle depictions of subjects that populate Yosemite and the Sierra foothills.
Yosemite has been the throughline. A recreational destination in childhood, a refuge that shaped my adulthood, an endless supplier of fascinating subjects to paint. Home.”
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Education
- Multiple Subject Teaching Credential, Sonoma State University
- B.A. Studio Art, College of Creative Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara
Selected Exhibitions
- Water + Color, Solo Exhibit, The Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite, CA June 9 - August 3, 2024
- AVIAN: Birds in a Changing World, Gallery 5, Oakhurst, CA December 6, 2017 - January 14, 2018
- Fig Tree Gallery Invitational, Fig Tree Gallery, Fresno, CA August 3 - September 3, 2017, January 2013, January 2001, March 1995
- Yosemite Renaissance XXXI, National Juried Exhibit, Yosemite Museum, February 26 - May 1, 2016 + Traveling
Winters 2011, 2010, 2006, 2004, 2002, 2000, 1998, 1997, 1995, 1991, 1990 - Yosemite Impressions: Works on Paper & Canvas, The Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite CA November 2015 - January 2016
- Miniature Show, First Street Gallery, Turlock, CA Fall/ Winter 2015, 2009, 2008, 2007
- Statewide Watercolor Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA December 8, 2012 - February 3, 2013, December 6, 2008 - February 22, 2009
- The High Sierra: Two Views, with Tom Killion, The Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite, CA October 1 - November 19, 2012
- California Works, California State Juried Fine Art Exhibit, Sacramento, CA July 12 - July 29, 2012, Summer 2004, 2001,1995,1992
- Yosemite: In Detail, Solo Exhibit, The Ansel Adams Gallery,Yosemite, CA September 27 - November 7, 2010
- California Watercolor Association 41st National Exhibit, Presidio of San Francisco, CA July 14 - September 19, 2010.
- Visions of Spring, Filoli, Woodside, CA March 31 - May 10, 2009
- Interplay: Yosemite Paintings, with Penny Otwell, The Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite, CA July 16 - August 31, 2008
- Oil & Water: Painting Yosemite, with Penny Otwell, The Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite, CA, October 22 – December 2, 2006
- Paintings: Two Views of Yosemite, with Penny Otwell, The Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite, CA, November 3 – December 16, 2004
- Fifth Annual Botanical Art Exhibition, Filoli, Woodside, CA October 3 – 18, 2003
- Innerscape: The Women Artists of Yosemite, Mariposa County Arts Council Gallery, Mariposa, CA September 27 – October 31, 2002
- Watercolors and Woodblock Prints, with Tom Killion, The Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite, CA, October 15 - November 30, 2001
- Local Color, The Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite, CA April 1 - May 15, 1999
- An Inspired Tradition, The Ansel Adams Gallery, Pebble Beach, CA February 1 - March 15, 1998
- The Ansel Adams Gallery, Group Exhibit, Yosemite, CA Summer 1996, Fall 1993, Summer 1993
- Artist’s Guild all California Juried Exhibit, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA May 30 - July 12, 1998
- Homage and Inspiration, National Juried Exhibit, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA April 2 - May 10, 1998
- Falling Leaf, The Gardener, Berkeley, CA October 16 - November 1, 1997
- The Harbinger Gallery, Arnold, CA October 1 - December 31, 1996 Sonora, CA July 1 - October 31, 1995
- California Arts Council Traveling Exhibit, November 1990 - June 1991
Selected Honors And Awards
- AVIAN: Birds in a Changing World, Gallery 5, Oakhurst, CA December 6, 2017 - January 14, 2018 Second Place Award
- Yosemite Renaissance XXXI, National Juried Exhibit, Yosemite Museum, February 26 - May 1, 2016 + Traveling
Winters 2011, 2010, 2006, 2004, 2002, 2000, 1998, 1997, 1995, 1991, 1990
7 Awards: Second Tier 2011, Second Place 2010, Best of Show 2000, Honorable Mentions 2002 & 1997,
Best Painting 1990, Yosemite Park & Curry Co. Purchase Award 1990 - Statewide Watercolor Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA December 8, 2012 - February 3, 2013, December 6, 2008 - February 22, 2009 Second Place Award
- California Works, California State Juried Fine Art Exhibit, Sacramento, CA July 12 - July 29, 2012 Award of Merit and Kay Boron Memorial Award, Summer 2004, 2001,1995,1992 4 Awards of Merit
- California Watercolor Association 41st National Exhibit, Presidio of San Francisco, CA July 14 - September 19, 2010, Hank McDonnell Award
- Visions of Spring, Filoli, Woodside, CA March 31 - May 10, 2009 Honorable Mention
- Artist’s Guild all California Juried Exhibit, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA May 30 - July 12, 1998, Award of Distinctive Merit
Associated Contributions And Experience
Sally Owens is represented by The Ansel Adams Gallery, P.O. Box 455, Village Mall, Yosemite, CA 95389 anseladams.com
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Mirror Image: Western Redbud, Early Spring
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