Tess Bilhartz

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**Tess Bilhartz,** *Impression*, 2024, Colored pencil on arches watercolor paper, 25 1/2 x 39 3/4 in, 64.8 x 101 cm

**Tess Bilhartz,** *Spin*, 2024, Oil on canvas, 30 x 52 in, 76.2 x 132.1 cm

**Tess Bilhartz,** *Drawing 2*, 2024, Inkjet print, watercolor, colored pencil on paper, 8 x 10 in, 20.3 x 25.4 cm (work)

“As far back as I can remember, my work has been banging around inside of a story that wants to be told. It lives there in the shadows, suspended forever between a beginning and an end. I found that the landscape could speak between the actions, its flickering shapes giving form to my unspeakable feelings. Its dark places contain threatening channels and also uncanny beauty. It morphs along the erratic plot twists of a world in the throes of ecological destruction and technological transformation. There is ambiguity here in my shadow world with porous boundaries, and there is a propensity towards mutation.” - Tess Bilhartz

Tess Bilhartz grew up in Dallas, Texas and currently lives and works in New York City where she teaches art at Borough of Manhattan Community College - CUNY. Recent solo exhibitions include Now You See Me at Deanna Evans Projects (2025), Follow Me Down at Rubber Factory (2022), and What on Earth at Below Grand (2020). Her work has been reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail and BOMB magazine. Her work has been included in recent group shows at Embajada, San Juan, PR, Primary, Miami, FL, Front Gallery, Houston, TX, and Island, New York, NY. Residencies include the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2017), and the Sharpe Walentas Space Program (2013).

EXHIBITIONS WITH DEP:

Tess Bilhartz, Now You See Me, 2025
Off-Kilter, Halsey McKay Gallery, 2025