About Ann-Marie Stillion

Ann-Marie Stillion (b. 1950) is an interdisciplinary artist based in photography and sculpture. She received her BFA from Northern Arizona University and continued her studies with artists like Kei Ito, Rosanne Olson, and Neil Lukas.

The revolutionary light and space practitioners of the 1960s helped shape the artist’s creative consciousness, deeply rooted in the rich artistic lineage of the West Coast. Nurtured by the perceptual explorations of Robert Irwin and James Turrell and the luminous photographic traditions of Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham, Stillion’s artistic sensibility was forged in a crucible of radical visual investigation.

Since 2013, Stillion’s work has evolved into an examination of embodied light. “The Female Gaze” marks a pivotal moment, challenging traditional photographic representation by centering the body as a primary text of lived experience. The pandemic catalyzed artistic expansion, propelling her toward historic photographic processes and experiments in bookmaking and textual performance and art.

Her large-scale sculptural works of light and fabric resist conventional photographic constraints, instead embracing surfaces as dynamic terrains of meaning. Stillion’s practice exists in a provocative dialogue between abstraction and realism, creating perceptual landscapes that simultaneously fragment and reconstruct human narrative.

Anchored in Seattle’s vibrant art ecosystem—represented by CORE Gallery in Pioneer Square and maintaining a studio at Equinox Studios in Georgetown—Stillion continues to push the boundaries of photography beyond the frame, transforming personal and political narratives into visual poetry.