EXHIBITION: Patrick Owens, Postcards from “Home”
October 2 @ 9:00 am - October 30 @ 5:00 pm
Free
Step into a world where memory, place, and personal history intertwine in Postcards from “Home”, an evocative photographic exhibition by Patrick Owens. Through hauntingly beautiful imagery gathered across Alabama’s landscapes, Owens invites us to consider the power of the objects and places we cherish—and what happens when they outlive our connection to them.
Owens invites us to consider the power of the objects and places we cherish—and what happens when they outlive our connection to them.
His work is a meditation on family, absence, and the passage of time, rooted in deeply personal journeys to a land he never called home, but which pulses with the presence of his ancestors. Each photograph is a quiet revelation, capturing the echoes of childhood road trips, half-remembered stories, and sacred spaces that speak to something greater than nostalgia: a longing to preserve what slips so easily into oblivion.
Owens was born in Gastonia, NC and raised in Taylors, SC. He received his AA degree in Photography from Greenville Technical College in Greenville, SC where he has worked as the Studio Manager/Gallery Assistant for the Department of Visual Arts since 2008. He earned his BFA degree in Sculpture from Clemson University in 2020. Some of his photographs have been included in the Looking at Appalachia project and are in the collection of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University in Durham, NC. His work was included in the 2017 Contemporary Alabama Photography exhibition at the Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile, AL. Recently, he has had sculptures exhibited in the 2024 Wiregrass Biennial at the Wiregrass Museum of Art in Dothan, AL and the 2024 Coined in the South Biennial at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC where he received the People’s Choice Award.
Postcards from “Home” will run from October 2-30, 2025. Owens will present a Gallery Talk on October 2, 2025, at 6:00 PM in the gallery followed by a reception from 6:30-8:00 PM.
The exhibition is located in the Milliken Art Gallery and is free of charge. Gallery hours are Sunday 2:00-5:00 PM, Monday – Friday 9:00 AM-5:00 PM. The Gallery is closed during school holidays.
