{"id":23,"date":"2026-02-27T05:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T05:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leeannthill.com\/leeann_art\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2026-06-30T02:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:20:25","slug":"artist-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leeannthill.com\/index.php\/artist-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_flex_section\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_flex_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et-last-child et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_24_24 et_flex_column_24_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\" data-et-mv-hidden-phone=\"true\"><h1>Artist Statement<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_1 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Lee Ann Thill | Painting &amp; Mixed-Media Art<\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_section_1 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_flex_section\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_1 et_pb_row et_flex_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_1 et_pb_column et-last-child et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_24_24 et_flex_column_24_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_2 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h2>Artist Statement<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_3 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My work explores the emotional and relational experience of living with invisible disabilities \u2014 not as a fixed state, but as something that evolves over time. Symptoms, diagnosis and management reverberate through identity, relationships and emotional life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cellular forms are the visual language of my art practice. The biological processes underlying invisible disabilities are continuous and imperceivable, so cells are reimagined to hold experiences that resist literal representation \u2014 diffuse, multifaceted, transient. Through abstraction, I move away from the clinical and toward the felt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Layering, scraping, tearing, and washing with paint and mixed-media collage refer to the medical experience \u2014 adherence, application, absorption, waiting \u2014 so materials and processes are an extension of the body and its care. These are not illustrations of illness, but reflections of the psychological weight, the ways relationships shift around a diagnosis, and the reshaping of identity. The work invites the viewer into that uncertainty \u2014 making space for experiences that can be personal, ambiguous and unacknowledged.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_2 et_pb_row et_flex_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_2 et_pb_column et-last-child et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_24_24 et_flex_column_24_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_image_0 et_pb_image et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/leeannthill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/in-the-studio.jpg\" alt=\"Paint palette and work in progress in Lee Ann Thill&#039;s art studio\" title=\"At work in Lee Ann Thill&#039;s art stdio\" width=\"1333\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leeannthill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/in-the-studio.jpg 1333w, https:\/\/leeannthill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/in-the-studio-1280x960.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/leeannthill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/in-the-studio-980x735.jpg 980w, https:\/\/leeannthill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/in-the-studio-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1333px, 100vw\" class=\"wp-image-294\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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