althea bartz willis

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List of Works




001My Childlike Faith 2026
Mixed media on Canvas
2x2’

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002Enmeshed escape, 2026
Mixed Media on Canvas
4x4’

[View...]002Estranged, 2026
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
3x4’

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part of developing body of work 
constructing surfaces that hold emotional residue


003Adrift, 2026
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
3x4’

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Paint as emotional projection onto textured surface.



part of developing body of work
constructing surfaces that hold emotional residue.

003Step on His Head, 2026


Installation + sound work
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Seated between two projections of their own shadow, the viewer is held in place as overlapping laughter and singing gathers behind them. The shadows do not align, in scale or prespective. Estrangement emerges through closeness rather than absence.


005Before I Was Born, 2025
Oil on canvas
1 x 4ft

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An exploration of inherited memory—familial rituals absorbed before language, carried without direct experience


005Self Portrait, 2026
Installation & Sound Work
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An immersive installation exploring the tension between mass and light, using layered projection, painting, and atmosphere to stage memory as a living, spatial experience.





008GirlDinner, 2025
Oil on Canvas
2 x 3ft
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Consumption & cosmetics: influence of consumer culture projected over a dinner table.

009grwm., 2025
Oil on Board
9 x 9in
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010Greymirror, 2025
Oil on Unstreched Canvas
1 x 6ft
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011My Outer Spaces, 2025
Oil on Canvas
9 x 11in
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Study projection of abstract expressionist figure on impressionist landscape, examining how memories exist in place



















000 / 012 Old Works (for fun!)


001Blood, 2025
Wood &  Cement
2x 13 x 12 in
Bartz-Willis, Thea
©  Voyager Scholarship Finalist
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exploring inheritance & generational trauma  


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Blue Hour, 2025
Oil on Canvas
24 x 1 x 12 in
Bartz-Willis,  Thea

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suspended comfort;  between known & unknown
inspired by travel to Zakynthos , Greece




















Painting and time-based media
Althea BW
altheabartz@gmail.com

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Althea Bartz-Willis' work examines the relationship between ecological processes—devastation and rebirth—and human coping mechanisms, both psychological and embodied. Each work investigates the threshold between what protects us and what we're forced to confront beneath it. Informed by her fieldwork in ecological research and a childhood spent outdoors, her paintings employ layers and veils to create temporal space as the viewer progresses toward the base layer of canvas.

Building from a blank plane of canvas, Bartz-Willis layers acrylic gesso in thick, organic patches, oil paint, glazing, thread, and textiles. Material vulnerability is enacted through the burning and ripping of fabric, or the scraping away of paint. She asks the viewer to feel rather than think—to sit with how deeply shared these processes of rupture and repair are across all living things.