Anna McIllece is a writer and visual artist from central Alaska who lives and works in Salt Lake County, Utah. She holds a BFA in Fine Art from Brigham Young University and approaches art through both studio work and critical inquiry, investigating outsider art, the ancient and cosmic, human ritual, and folk tradition. Forever drawn to the unsettling, she examines how folklore persists and reemerges within contemporary life.
In a 2006 interview, Robert Enright described the works of contemporary painter Peter Doig as being “fixed in a sort of drift,” embodying a seemingly contradictory in-between zone that holds tightly to both stasis and movement. Carried into the current exhibition at ‘A’ Gallery is this same tension, […]
It began with a hymn. Methinks the Spirit whispers, “No man has found ‘pure space,’ Nor seen the outside curtains, Where nothing has a place.” Camilla Stark, Rusden Scott, and LAZERos set out to create an elusive “place” in downtown Provo. All they needed was a title. “We […]
A charcoal-grey smog sweeps across an American highway, the acrid tang of exhaust fumes so strong they snake into the cabin through the front windshield. A motorcycle, indefinitely rendered useless under a layer of cold plastic, leather, and steel. A single, perpetually parked car. The moment between calling […]
