James Freeman Gallery

We are pleased to present a series of new paintings by the British artist Sikelela Owen, in an exhibition that looks at how the imagery and motifs from art history give shape to a painter’s visual memory.

Sikelela’s paints the things that are closest to her: her family, friends, and relationships. The images she works with have endured as memories, to the extent that they are more than just a depiction of a moment in time. They represent an emotional echo given visual form.

This sense of the intangible past is carried through in the way Sikelela paints. Her brushwork, on the...