I use bright contrasting colors and minimal abstract compositions to highlight and amplify the beauty within familiar objects, shapes, and colors. Each element is intended to produce its own range of responses in the viewer, including joy from bright colors, nostalgia from vintage objects, and constriction from shrink wrapped plastic. I use minimalist layouts to strengthen the focus on those selected elements. My current work is heavily influenced by my appreciation of Color Field and Hard-edge painting styles, including my use of colored paper and unmixed paint colors. I also draw inspiration from Pop Art, browsing antique stores and thrift shops, and retro color palettes and design styles from my early youth in the eighties.

- Jimmy Zenisek (he/him)

As a project based artist I use a variety of materials, modalities and conceptual stimuli to create work that investigates sculpture through found and created materials. The work represents a devastation of self-dom within love, fear, feminism, politics, freedom, poverty, fantasy and survival. Current sculptures focus on grief, mourning and mending. A mother to still born twin boys, my world flipped upside down in March of 2021. Sculptures and paintings have taken on the grief of not knowing the toddlers, children, and adults my children could have been. Sculptures are meditations on processing the childless mother that I am, one of whom deeply desires playing with gnomes in the garden and sleepless nights. Reflecting on a devastation of self and yet a hopeful resignation of those who stay on this planet; actions and dreams are echoed in form. Sculptures fail and yet they rise- broken, busted, glued, and bright. - Jaymee Harvey Willms (she/her)