Owen Oppenheimer London, United Kingdom
Owen Oppenheimer (b.USA 1969) studied fine art at Cheltenham School of Art, l'Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques in Paris and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. His work has been shown in exhibitions internationally, screened at film festivals in Europe, Asia and Africa, and broadcast on tv in the UK and the Netherlands.
Oppenheimer's work explores trapped psychological states; thwarted ambition, frustration, failure, loss. His practice encompasses prints, objects, films and installations are all shot through with a mordant sense of humour. Like something glimpsed out of the corner of one’s eye. Or scraped out of it.