ARTIST STATEMENT
I make artworks as a means of processing my life. I rely heavily on bright, saturated color that pierces the viewer—that shouts out —and demands to be looked at. It’s my hope that the colors and their shapes both unsettle and resettle into a new kind of sense: a new reorder that ultimately feels reassuring. In the end, each piece feels like a new home in which I can reside. I hope the viewer will join me there.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Anna Lentz is a visual artist and arts educator living in Dundee, IL. She studied anthropology, women’s studies, and studio art at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN and community art at California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA. She earned her MA in Art Education at School of the Arts Institute, Chicago, IL. Her research interests include farming as conservation, nature hospitality, and creativity as empowerment. As a woodland dweller, her art and writing practice is devoted to revealing our intimate connection and interdependence with nature. Through practicing creative rituals, she explores how nature’s cycles give shape and meaning to our lives. Furthermore, to mend and nurture her own soul, Anna sews story quilts with hand-dyed scraps, upcycled fabrics, and colorful embroidery and paints the shapes of our domestic world in vivid colors.
© Anna Lentz