Collar Works is pleased to announce Horizons Living Memory, an exhibition of recent work by Jake Winiski.

Supernatural occurrences are glimpses of alternate realities that cross over into our reality and are sometimes witnessed and poorly photographed, according to John A. Keel in Disneyland of the Gods. And from these supernatural occurrences human myths and superstitions are created in an attempt to understand them. Similarly, Winiski approaches image making as an extra-dimensional activity within a hybridizing oscillation of photography, sculptural constructions, and painting aimed at discovering the potential for an alternate reality; a larger world inside the smaller construction. Winiski produces hybrid objects - as much photographs as paintings, yet neither in any traditional sense - that explore the free-associative manner in which internal fantasy can project itself into the world.

Winiski’s images are composed of soft-focused absurdities; colorful and complex abstractions ebbing and flowing with grotesque, humorous figurative description. The work included will range from small portrait-like compositions to large medieval inspired landscapes, all utilizing strong color relationships that emphasize abstract impulse and photographic, atmospheric space.

Jake Winiski was born in 1983 in Iowa City, IA. He received a BFA from the University of Iowa in 2005 and an MFA from the University at Albany in 2009.