To Dusk, 2023

Solo Show
Featured at: Platteforum
Photos by: Wes Magyar

To Dusk, replicates the landscape of the Utah desert through material metaphor. I paint the surfaces of mobile walls using color theory to create different colored reflections mimicking the reflection of the sun against the red rocks in the canyon walls in Utah. Together the walls form a virtual sunset. By mixing interior and exterior spaces, along with natural resources and waste from acts of consumption, I create a landscape alluding to themes of the American West; expansionism, exploitation, and my own experiences growing up in the Utah desert.

Inspired by their Mormon cultural heritage, Sitterud created a quilt made of lacroix boxes, highlighting the craft’s roots as a way of passing on legacy and creating community. Three landscape paintings draw from fragmented memories of the Book Cliffs' horizons in Green River, Utah.