Alison Owen is a ceramicist and collage artist living and working in  Poughkeepsie, New York. She creates vessels that hover between two and three dimensions. Each piece is made from slab-rolled clay cut into shapes like a dress-maker’s pattern, and pieced together to create forms that are gently dimensional yet invoke the pictorial plane. One or both sides might be decorated with a drawing, painting, or collage depicting relics, rainbows, figures, or flowers drawn in the tradition of the still lifes that so often represent vases themselves. Just as her ceramics embrace the flat plane of the still lifes that they reference, her works on paper often enter the third dimension, with objects resting on exposed stretchers, or canvases cut, draped, and restitched. Throughout Owen’s work, she draws attention to interior space, interior life, the life of objects, and the stories they hold.