Jeff Owen
Sculptor – Biography
Jeff Owen is a San Francisco Bay Area and nationally recognized abstract, metal sculptor. His sculptures express his emotions, concepts, dreams, and the patterns he sees in life. Jeff is most noted for his steel sculptures but he also creates sculptures with aluminum, and has incorporated rock, copper, cement, and stucco in his work. Jeff’s sculptures have won awards at the Palm Springs Museum National Juried Exhibition, Carmel’s Sculpture in the Park State Juried Exhibition, Santa Clara Indoor Sculpture Exhibition, and the Los Gatos Art Association Juried Exhibitions. He sells his sculptures locally at fine art events, at his studio in San Jose, CA, at 24 N Santa Cruz Ave Gallery in Los Gatos, CA, and over the internet at his web site, http://www.jeffowen.com. His sculptures are now located in more that 26 states across the United States, and internationally.

Jeff’s life as an artist began as a child sitting in the back seat of the car with a drawing tablet and #2 pencil. His mother would put him and all of her drawing supplies into the car and drive around town looking for interesting buildings, homes, or people to draw. Usually on a busy street, cars whizzing by with all the noise that accompanies them; no matter, we were there to draw whatever was out the side window of the car. He’d say his drawings were never much to look at, but he always received tons of “that’s beautiful” or “I wish I could draw like that” from Mom. Sometimes his scale would be off, sometimes his perspective, no problem, Mom would encourage him.

Jeff’s life as a metal sculptor began when his father-in-law, Chet Christison of Fresno, CA. gave Jeff his oxy-acetylene torch set and a small welder. “What the heck is that?” Jeff asked Chet. “Oh that, you wouldn’t know” he said. “That’s for welding metal.” Jeff asked, “Can I have it? You’re not using it”. Chet’s gruff response, “What are you going to do with it? You don’t even know how to use it. You’ll have to get my son to show you how to use it,” only made Jeff more determined to have it. Jeff carried the oxy-acetylene torch and welder back to San Jose and started creating. He has been working on art every since.