Theresa Antonellis’s drawing and painting practice of breath-generated marks using body-centered meditations culminate in organic abstractions. They express the time experienced in meditation and locate the space between the body and mind; natural and abstract. Antonellis purposefully focuses on her breath, and all the interior bodily sensations of breath together with the exterior activity of mark making. One single mark is made as one breath is exhaled.

Antonellis made the ink used in her drawings at the residency. Her recipes is: 3 ounces of finely ground oak gall; 1 cup of boiling water; 2 ounces of ferrous sulfate; 1 ounce gum arabic; egg shells; and 1 cup of sterile water.

Antonellis is the director of the Martha Gault Art Gallery at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania, where she also teaches Art History. Her artwork has been exhibited at universities and colleges in New England, New York, and Ohio. Antonellis was born in 1958, and she works and lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

To learn more about the artist, visit her website here.