Once again, my posting is on a 2 month delay... In the past year I have been a part of an Artist Book Club in Milwaukee. This Club was put together by Kate Schaffer- a badass artist who is literally the busiest human I know. Kate put together this group and we have read some great books and eaten some great food in the last year. One of the books was What Would Lynne Tillman Do? Besides the first chapters on Andy Warhol driving me nuts- this book dug into some serious problems that artists face today. Tillman addressed the artists contemporary plight in domesticity, identity, merit, and research in every chapter. This novel uses interviews and stories from Tillmans own life, and blurrs the line between memory and reality. As a group, Melissa Dorn, Peter Beck, Lois Bielefeld, Kate Schaffer and myself put together an exhibition at Frank Juarez Gallery that investigated our research into this book and author. This exhibition, What Would We Do With Lynne Tillman?, dug into new domestic
This is a rarely updated center for ongoing work and projects of Jaymee Harvey Willms. Consistency is not key, but this online space will share upcoming and ongoing exhibitions and studio work. Jaymee is an artist living and working in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She has a BFA in painting from the USD and an MFA in sculpture from SUNY Albany. Her work digs into fantasy, feminism and where materials meet these two concepts.