About the artist

Willea Zwey is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice blends architectural precision with imaginative storytelling. Drawing from her architectural background, she crafts surreal, otherworldly scenes that explore memory, identity, and interconnectedness through rich detail, expressive color, and dynamic emotional resonance.

About the artwork

"Still Life - Vol. 1" reimagines Renaissance and Neoclassical still life traditions, where meticulously arranged objects symbolize order and permanence. Here, stability unravels as forms distort and fracture, challenging classical rigidity. Geometric compositions digitally disintegrate, creating tension between structure and entropy. Objects once fixed in time now shift between recognition and abstraction. Extending the historical lineage into the digital age, this work explores how perception is continuously shaped, fractured, and reassembled, reflecting the fluidity and perpetual flux of contemporary experience.