Owen Premore
Owen Premore, is Co-founder and Director of Art in Oregon, curator, technician, and artist working in fibers, kinetics, interactive elements, and occasional printmaking. Premore earned his BA from the University of Oregon with an emphasis on drawing, painting, and printmaking, and an MFA in Spatial Art with a focus in interactive installation from San Jose State University. Following graduate school, he worked for the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry for twelve years where he managed traveling exhibits throughout the United States. In 2019, he established Premore Services LLC, his museum and gallery technical support business. Premore is also the Directing Curator of the Art About Agriculture Program at Oregon State University.
Premore’s artwork uses humor and relational familiarities to engage the viewer in conversations touching on political, social, environmental, and humanitarian topics. His textile sculptures often explore over indulgence, the larger impact of such behaviors, and propagating self-reflection using detailed recreations of familiar objects that aim to spark olfactory and gustatory memory. Premore’s textile-based installations are responses to place, setting, and attempt to reclaim humanness from pervasive stressors of the moment. His kinetic sculptures contain secondhand equipment and objects for new, experiential purposes that suggest usefulness, but instead liberates the viewer from practical work.
