Madison LaVallee, a fellow graduate student in mixed media at SUNY Albany, and I collaborated this last week to create an interactive installation. We called it Surrogate Place.... Make It Your own. The exhibition involved three stages, or sets, designed to operate as domestic interiors. We created specifically three shared spaces of a home; a kitchen, outdoor space, basement, and living room. In perfect Project Runway fashion, we then provided an accessory wall and "domestic directives" for groups and individuals to follow for specific allotted times. The project was design as a research project for us, but also as something the viewer could relate to and take home with them. Why do we place things in the places we do? Where do our things really belong? How does your understanding of an object shape the way it is used or misused? Video and photos of the manipulated spaces to follow!
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.