A B O U T
Owen Masterson
ARTIST - PHOTOGRAPHER - FILMMAKER - AUTHOR
I was born in Brooklyn, raised on Staten Island, went to high school in Manhattan, and copped drugs in the Bronx. Got my first camera, a Nikon knock-off from my father when I was eleven; he showed me how to load the film and off I went. I fell in love with f/2.8 and black and white film, but I also loved playing the drums- that was before it hit me that singing and slinging a guitar was where the action is.
In my teens and 20s I banged around in rock bands: NY, LA, SF; punk and new wave, debauchery and madness. I drifted into writing, modeling, acting, and married the best looking gal in the room, who, it turned out, was also the smartest: she brought me back to photography.
We've been shooting together successfully now for the last twenty-something years, including a side trip to make two award-winning documentary films.
Through it all I’ve kept my hand in art: the other side of the lens.
Photography and painting thrill me. They’re both alive with random possibilities and moments of serendipitous wonder. Painting propels me to explore beyond the edge, to create new ways to see, affording the opportunity for deeper explorations that flow beyond the frame.
The imagination must roam.
CURRENT & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Please see 2/23/25 MESSAGE FROM THE ARTIST POSTING
2025
JANSSEN ART SPACE
EIGHT - THE ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION
Opening MAY 17 2025 Downtown Palm Springs
Reception 5pm > 8pm
A New Grouping of "Little Giants" will be on display.
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MAD.KAT GALLERY - THROUGHLY MODERN MID-CENTURY
Honoring the Inspiration of 20th Century Modernists
Jan 11 2025 > Feb 22 2025
Rancho Mirage CA
I will be exhibiting some architectural drawings I created in August and September of 2024.
Imaginative - Tranquil - Impossible
A Dream Of Modern Structures
Architectural Abstractions
2024-25
JANSSEN ART SPACE
8TH ANNUAL SMALL WONDER EXHIBITION
Opening December 13 in Palm Springs
Show hangs till January 19, 2025.
I will be showing my "Little Giants"
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PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS
Verstappen Fine Art, Desert Hot Springs CA - Group Show - Sept 29 > Oct 29 2024
Opening Reception 9/29 - 12pm > 4pm
Mad.Kat Gallery, Rancho Mirage CA - SOUND + VISION
March 16 > April 21 2024
The ALIX Gallery, Palm Springs CA - New Works on Canvas - Large Format
October 21 2023.
The ALIX Gallery, Palm Springs CA - In Focus: MASTERSON - Acrylic Reflections On Canvas: Transitioning the Lens Beyond The Camera
April 21 2023 > May 20 2023
The Modernists, UC Riverside - Palm Desert - Group Show - DESERT ABSTRACTS
Feb 10 > Apr 28 2023
WESTSIDE, Atlanta GA - Mid-Century Modern Wood Assemblages
January 2019
University School of Nashville, Nashville TN - ArtClectic Group Show - WoodWorks
October 2018
Dallas Street Gallery, Nashville TN - WoodWorks - Solo Show
May 2017
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ANTHONY-MASTERSON PHOTOGRAPHY
< Christine Anthony + Owen Masterson >
The Modernists, UC Riverside - Palm Desert - Group Show
ANTHONY-MASTERSON PHOTOGRAPHY - PS Portrait Project-Photography
Feb 10 > Apr 28 2023
Desert Island - Rancho Mirage
ANTHONY-MASTERSON PHOTOGRAPHY - Palm Springs Portrait Project-Photography
Feb 2 > Feb 27 2023
Melissa Morgan Fine Art - Palm Desert
ANTHONY-MASTERSON PHOTOGRAPHY - Palm Springs Portrait Project-Photography
Dec 8 2022 > Feb 3 2023
PCM Gallery, Atlanta GA - Group Show
ANTHONY-MASTERSON PHOTOGRAPHY - Farm To Frame Photography Exhibition
Jul 18 > 26 2014
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AUTHOR
Owen Masterson’s books are the provocative prose novels Sometime, a love story of enormous proportions, and Meanwhile, (a companion to Sometime, and part 2 in a planned trilogy), is a rollicking tale of wanting, searching, and Hollywood madness.
Five Easy Pieces For Typewriter, a thin collection of poorly written, over-priced, and previously published articles and stories from the mid 1980s and ‘90s.
Medicine Cabinet Glass, a collection of original song lyrics written between 1973 to 1984.
Available online at AMAZON or directly from the author. Autographed even!
B R E A K I N G A U T H O R N E W S
A new publishing partnership for my literary output is in the works...
Affiliations can carry the consensus of moral alignment.
When visions cease to align we must expand affiliations
The HECK HARLANSON Trilogy NOW AVAILABLE on Barnes & Noble Books
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"I live in the desert with my wife and photography partner, Christine Anthony, and a charm of beautiful and savage hummingbirds."
Owen Masterson
