My Life in Art

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.