Anna Guillory received her BFA in Art Education in 2017, and worked as an art educator for three years. Alongside regional and juried exhibitions in the North Texas area, her work has been exhibited in Lincoln, NE and Seattle, WA. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Drawing from the University of Arkansas, where she lives and works.
My drawing practice examines the human condition as defined by the contemporary moment. I visualize the tension of living in a present where time is organized as linear: past, present, future — but often experienced much differently. Using graphite on paper, collage techniques, and installation strategies my compositions are invented spaces where relationship to self, others, and networks therein are reimagined. Often taking cues from personal experiences as a starting point, my work becomes documents of exchange where complex layers of temporalities are compressed into a static image.
Art Historian Terry Smith describes the present as “the constant experience of radical disjunctures of perception, mismatching ways of seeing and valuing the same world, in the actual coincidence of asynchronous temporalities”.
Driven by this same intuition that our experience of time is changing, and therefore methods of how we make meaning of the world are more complex, my work encourage viewers to contemplate their personal histories, and material surroundings, as well as attempts to augment drawing’s relevance as a meaning-making tool in the world. This manifests my long-standing interest in drawing’s ability to respond to and create alternative ways of seeing where forms take on new, previously unrealized meanings and can actively participate in a world of process.