Jessica Willis is a mixed, multimedia and installation artist as well as curator residing in the Hudson Valley in New York. Though she works in a variety of media and combines them unconventionally, a common thread in much of her work is the unwillingness to be limited to two dimensions.  Use of encaustics on sculptural substrates is a recurring practice. When working in individual media, her work in each medium, though part of distinct series, combine as elements of her exploration of an integrated whole reality made up of surface, depth, void and apparently inconsistent and incompatible elements.   From representational work in paint, wood, or photography to the distorted or purely abstract she plumbs the relationships between media, subject, color, line, viewer, artist, self and other.  These filaments of connection are the real subject matter of her work. A self taught painter, her background includes diverse professional experiences from teaching pottery to high-end sales to management consulting as well as a stint in the non-profit world before committing herself full time to her life as an artist.