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.
Anna is a process-based artist working primarily across drawing, painting, and collage. In her practice she often relies on elements of repetition, layering, and accumulation of material to build bodies of work that act as containers within which to explore her own relationship to temporality; the state of existing within or having some relationship with time. Through this she is often interested in articulating involved and intricate investigations that more broadly explore and examine the modalities that are available to us within which to comprehend time and interpret the world.
Her work encourages viewers to contemplate their personal histories and material surroundings. Alongside this are attempts to augment drawing’s logic and relevance as a meaning-making tool in the world. This manifests her long-standing interest in drawing’s ability to respond to and create ways of seeing where forms take on new, previously unrealized meanings and can actively participate in a world of process.