Tess Bilhartz’s paintings and installations build on a lineage of artists who conceive a world beyond visible reality. She works with imagery from storytelling genres like fantasy, sci-fi, and horror that create familiar containers for extreme, absurd, or hidden feelings. She layers symbols like monstrous teeth, a distorted shadow, or an alien handprint with materials such as paint or pencil. Over time, this layering transforms the image to embody tangled interior states.
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