Joanne Ungar is a Brooklyn-based artist working in encaustic and collage, layering pigmented beeswax with painted cardboard and other recycled packaging materials onto wood panels. Her process-based work embraces the unpredictability of hot wax, which she has described as an attempt at "controlling that which cannot be controlled." Each piece is individually cast rather than reproduced, and her recurring use of salvaged packaging materials speaks to themes of consumer culture and disposability, with finished works functioning as time-capsule-like records of a throwaway relationship to goods and technology. Sustainability is a stated commitment of her practice, which emphasizes reusing materials wherever possible.