Autumn Wittebort

Autumn is an emerging artist whose practice centers on the female experience, examining how systems of power, expectation, and silence shape women’s lives. Her work explores the many forms of oppression women navigate, both visible and subtle, and how these forces are embedded in our culture.

Her practice originated in hyper-realistic charcoal drawing informed by environmental science, with a focus on animals and ecological vulnerability. That early emphasis on precision and observation continues to influence her work, even as her practice has shifted toward abstraction. She now works primarily in oil paint while taking an increasingly interdisciplinary approach to making. This transition allows her to move beyond documentation and instead question the systems of representation.

Her current body of work engages mythological narratives as a framework for understanding contemporary womanhood. By reworking and disrupting them, Autumn examines how myth perpetuates cycles of control and erasure, and how those narratives still echo in the lived experiences of women today.

Currently based in Oxford, Mississippi, Autumn received her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Environmental Science with high honors from Allegheny College and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Mississippi, where she also serves as a teaching assistant in the painting department. Her work has been shown at multiple locations at the University of Mississippi, including Gallery 130, the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, and the Ford Center, as well as Mississippi University for Women (MS), Hatch Hollow Gallery (PA), NEXT Gallery (CO), and in several exhibitions at Allegheny’s Doane Hall of Art Gallery.