According to John Fitz Gibbon, Frank Owen's paintings are "about ethics, physics, the mathematics and metaphysics of space-time; they're about truth and friendship, and according to some people, even generosity; anger is in them too, and terribilita; they invoke the heroic guise of abstract expressionism, especially Pollock's; they're also about Duchamp-about a lot of other art too, including forays into the Quattrocento; they're about escaping your teachers and getting a bearing on yourself; they're about talent, having what it takes with your mitts, and through their hand-made quality they make a social statement about the grace in an all-tool using labor; they're about computers and all kinds of technologies, new and ancient; they're about consciousness and mind, and above all about, about information they're the most archival paintings I know; they're about playing contradictions against each other to achieve a balance of apparent opposites."

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