Elmhurst Artists' Guild Fall Members' Show at Elmhurst Art Museum Highlights Ana Vitek's "The Long Road Home"

Find Ana Vitek's Work -- THE LONG ROAD HOME on the Featured Artist Wall at the members' show in the Elmhurst Art Museum, 150 S. Cottage Hill, Elmhurst, IL

"The Long Road Home" is my ongoing painting series that captures the spirit of the open road, where movement is freedom and miles on the road lead to the promise of new discoveries. Wide open skies filled with dramatic clouds over fields, ribbons of roads, zippy lines move into the distance. There is a certain meditative rhythm of a long road trip, the dance of light, and shadow, the quiet anticipation of what lies perhaps just around the bend. At once nostalgic, and full of hope, the series reflects both my outward journey and love of travel and an inward search for belonging and the deeper meaning of "home."

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am lifelong artist deeply inspired by movement, changes of light, fleeting feelings, imagined moments, graphic design and global travel.

My work is an expression of the energy and emotions embodied in places and points in time: energy and emotions that are often fleeting and transitional. Often representing the transition between specific states, decisions or actions, such points in time embody the hope of possibility of situations that have yet to happen or echo with the energy of interactions that just happened.