Anita Dewitt

My work explores the balance and tension individuals experience as they navigate identity, aspiration, and self-actualization. Working in graphite, paint, and clay, I create highly realistic figures drawn from photographs and live models, placing them within imagined settings where the familiar becomes unexpected.
I am interested in the space between who we are and who we strive to become. I alter costumes, environments, scale, and context to move real people into constructed worlds—part theatrical stage, part psychological landscape. These elements allow me to explore the ways we perform, adapt, and negotiate our identities while remaining grounded in the physical presence of the human figure.
I am particularly drawn to acrobats, dancers, performers, and others whose practices demand strength, discipline, vulnerability, and extraordinary physical awareness. I depict them both at the height of physical achievement and in quieter moments of reflection. In these contrasting states, I look for the tension between control and surrender, effort and stillness, strength and vulnerability.
Through realism tempered by imagination, my work creates a space where the recognizable and the invented can coexist. The figures remain believable and ...

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Minor in Psychology (May 2006), Colorado State University, 2200 Bonforte Blvd., Pueblo, CO 81001-4901

2026 — Fall Exhibition, Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center, Bowling Green, KY (group)
2026 — Members Only Exhibition, SkyCTC Gallery, Bowling Green, KY (group)
2026 — Women in the Arts, The Medical Center, Bowling Green, KY (group)
2026 — Abound Celebration of the Arts, WKU Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green, KY (group)
2025 — House on the Hill Fundraiser, Bowling Green, KY (group)
2025 — Our Wake, Private Group Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY (group)
2024 — Artworks Spring Exhibition, Ellis Walker Gallery, Bowling Green, KY (group)
2024 — Abound Celebration of the Arts, WKU Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green, KY (group)
2022 — Pop Up, 33 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, IL (group)
2020 — Interlude, Commonwheel Artists Co-op, Manitou Springs, CO (group)
2019 — 12th Annual Contemporary Figurative Art Show, Hilliard Gallery (Juried), Kansas City, MO (group)
2018 — Threshold, Solo Exhibition curated by Marti Lawrence Wolf, Canon City, CO (solo)
2015 — Pueblo in the Nude, Kadoya Gallery (Juried), Pueblo, CO (group)