Encountering the Invisible

Jaana Erkkilä-Hill creates artwork that reflects the spiritual and religious experiences of life, looking beyond culture, time, and circumstance to try to access a deeply-felt and experienced connection to the spiritual. She sees her creative practice as a means to ask questions, philosophically examining what is seen and unseen. Drawing from art history, nature, and society, Erkkilä-Hill combines the everyday and the sacred, the visible and the invisible world in search of what lies at the core.

Jaana Erkkilä-Hill is a visual artist, researcher and professor of visual arts at the University of Lapland in Finland. In her more than thirty years of artistic practice she has focused on printmaking including both woodcuts and linocuts, mastering the process of layering color and imagery. In recent years her academic research has focused on artist pedagogy.

Gallery Viewing: August 1-3 & 8-9 • 12pm-4pm