
Sherry Owens
Reawakening the Spirit, 2019
crepe myrtle, steel, milk paint, dye, oil, wax
108.50h x 36w x 31d in
SO042
Sherry Owens
Guardians, 2019
crepe myrtle, baling wire, dye, wax
91h x 60w x 16.25d inches
Sherry Owens
Drought, 2010
bronze (unique)
52h x 84.50w x 45d in
SO026
Sherry Owens
Embrace of Heaven and Earth, 2019
cast bronze, patina
88.50h x 41.50w x 38d in
Sherry Owens
Widows and Maidens 2, 2019
bronze, patina, crepe myrtle, dye, milk paint, wax
15h x 14.50w x 7d in
Sherry Owens
Widows and Maidens 3, 2019
bronze, patina, crepe myrtle, dye, milk paint, wax
12h x 8.38w x 10d in
SO052
Sherry Owens
Widows and Maidens 4, 2019
bronze, patina, crepe myrtle, dye, milk paint, wax
9.13h x 14.75w x 11.75d in
Sherry Owens
Widows and Maidens 5, 2019
bronze, patina, crepe myrtle, dye, milk paint, wax
9.25h x 14.25w x 9d in
Sherry Owens
Queen of the Night, 2019
bronze (unique), patina
8h x 19w x 11.50d in
Sherry Owens
Almost a Symphony, 2019
bronze (unique), patina, brass nails, paint
20.75h x 13.25w x 11.75d in
SO043
Sherry Owens
Waiting for the Feast, 2019
bronze (unique), patina, brass nails, paint
21.50h x 21.63w x 13.75d in
SO045
Sherry Owens
Star Web, 2019
bronze (unique), patina, brass nails, paint
18.50h x 22w x 15.25d in
SO034
Sherry Owens
Waterhole, 2017
crepe myrtle, dye, wax
24h x 36w x 36d in
Sherry Owens
Abandoned Fields Adust, 2019
crepe myrtle, oil, wax
22.50h x 24.75w x 6.63d in
Sherry Owens
Mapping the Presence of Water on the Moon, 2017
crepe myrtle, paint, marble dust, marble chips, sand, pebbles
SO028
Sherry Owens
An Ocean Between Us, 2008
crepe myrtle, dye, wax, steel, paint
113.50h x 129w x 27d in
SO020
Sherry Owens
A Little Time in the Shade, 2017
crepe myrtle
46.50h x 18.50w x 9.50d in
SO021
Sherry Owens
Mother Nature Throwing Up Her Hands, 2017
crepe myrtle, bailing wire, paint, dye, wax
77.25h x 43.75w x 23d in
SO019
Sherry Owens
Keep Me Warm One Night, 2015
crepe myrtle, dye, wax
43.75h x 16w x 14d in
SO016
Sherry Owens
Twirling Like a Seed in the Wind, 2013
bronze, crepe myrtle, dye, wax
76 x 35 x 24 inches
SO001
For over 30 years Sherry Owens has used the sinewy crepe myrtle tree to tell her story – of the Texas landscape, of death, renewal, beauty, and of today’s growing environmental concerns. Owens begins by collecting discarded trees, whittling, carving, waxing, painting, dyeing and burnishing the branches before she assembles them with pegs, baling wire and other material choices. The narrative of each sculpture is decided well in advance of its assembly; the subsequent choice of each stick, each gesture, and each connecting point resembles the marks of drawing in the third dimension.
Sherry Owens lives and works in Dallas, TX and received a BFA from Southern Methodist University. Her work has been shown throughout Texas and the southwest; in 2018, she completed a two-person site specific installation at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum in Austin, Texas, and was included in Commanding Space: Women Sculptors of Texas, at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas. In 2017, Owens mounted a solo exhibition at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, and the Martin Museum of Art at Baylor University. Owens has exhibited internationally in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Greece, India, Peru, Turkey, and was recently included in The First Crosscurrent Yokohama-Texas International Artists Exchange Show 2019 at Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery in Yokohama, Japan.
Sherry Owens has completed several large public art projects, including a large-scale bronze through the Love Field Modernization Program at Love Field Airport in Dallas, TX and a monumental commission for the Ben E. Keith Company, also in Dallas. Owens is a former president of the Texas Sculpture Association, has served on various art boards and was a co-founder of the Emergency Artists’ Support League. She was the recipient of the Moss/Chumley North Texas Artist Award in 1999, was the West Texas Triangle artist in 2010 with a comprehensive survey at five west Texas museums, and received the Artist/Craftsman Award from the AIA Dallas in 2014.
Carbon Sink, collaboration with Art Shirer for True North 2020, Houston Heights Boulevard, Houston Texas, 2020
Sherry Owens: Tied to This World
Sherry Owens: Tied to This World
Sherry Owens: Tied to This World
Sherry Owens: Tied to This World
Love Field Modernization Program, Back in a Moment, Love Field Airport, Dallas, TX, permanent installation, 2012