ARTIST STATEMENT

Born in 1997 in Los Angeles, Joslyn Renee has emerged as a compelling contemporary voice whose practice explores the intersection of nature and human temporality. Drawing on a background in Architecture and Environmental Science from Columbia University, she approaches her practice with both structural precision and ecological sensitivity. Her work reflects a deep engagement with landscape, material, and the passage of time, examining how built and natural environments shape and are shaped by human presence. Renee’s work has been exhibited throughout the Los Angeles area, where she continues to live and work.

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Central to her work is the use of wax harvested from her own beehives; an intimate and materially significant gesture that grounds her process in lived ecological stewardship. By working with a substance produced through collective labor and seasonal cycles, she embeds time itself into the surface of her compositions. Drawing from traditions of archival preservation and a reverence for organic form, Renee employs beeswax as both medium and metaphor. Its translucence and malleability allow her to build luminous, layered surfaces that suggest sedimentation, memory, and gradual transformation. Her process is deliberate and patient, shaped by the rhythms of tending hives and harvesting their yield. Each work becomes an extension of this cyclical exchange between artist and environment; a meditation on fragility, interdependence, and the quiet persistence of natural systems.