Overview

In My Life in Art, artist and writer Gleah Powers explores the deeply personal relationship between creativity and lived experience. Growing up in the American Southwest, Powers developed an artistic sensibility shaped by the stark beauty of desert landscapes and the resilient spirit of the region's people. Her work draws on these influences as well as her extensive background in writing, theatre, dance, and body-movement therapies. Through reflective essays and visual documentation of her artwork, Powers examines how memory, intuition, movement, and emotional experience inform her creative process. Her figurative work investigates the human body as a vessel for sensitivity, sensuality, fragility, aggression, and trauma-revealing the stories the body carries. Part memoir, part artistic meditation, My Life in Art offers readers an intimate look at the evolution of an artist's practice and the mysterious, often unpredictable process through which ideas become images.

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""This book deserves more than a WOW, BEAUTIFUL CREATIVE, AMAZING---something divinely poetic with depth of talent, skills, and bravery. It's magnificent."" Louretta Walker, artist/healer ""Most of my artistic friends and colleagues have more than one genre in which they indulge. But usually there is an obvious primary hat to wear: an actor who paints, a painter who writes poetry, a poet who dances, a dancer who writes short stories. Gleah wears all these hats, and more, and I'll be damned if I can identify the main hat. To my sensibilities her voice is remarkably strong."" Phil Rice, editor, Canopic Jar an Arts Journal ""This book should be left open on your reading table so that you take the time to absorb each image. In this way Gleah's remarkable journey into the nature of her own words and images can penetrate your own vision, maybe even transforming how you see your own life from the inside, rather than as an outer narrative."" Andrew Rush, artist-educator, founder of The Drawing Studio

Author Information

Gleah Powers is an artist and writer whose work explores the intersection of visual art, storytelling, and the expressive potential of the human body. Influenced by the landscapes of the American Southwest, her mixed-media and figurative artworks examine themes of memory, emotion, and resilience.In addition to her work as a visual artist, Powers has written plays, essays, and fiction. She holds an MFA and has pursued interdisciplinary studies combining writing, performance, and movement-based therapies.She is also the author of Enda and Luna and Million Dollar Red.

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