Interested in sustainability, materiality, and consumer culture, Joanne Ungar views her cardboard and encaustic works as collages. Like a fossil preserved in amber, each of these highly geometric works contains a deconstructed cardboard box embedded in layers of pigmented wax. By memorializing these disposable items, Ungar considers the negligence of consumerism, while extolling the sophistication of her materials’ design. Ungar was the 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Craft/Sculpture and the recipient of 2014 residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions throughout New York City, as well as countless group shows in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey. Ungar holds her BFA in painting from the School of Visual Arts.