JOYCE BILLET (b. Paris, France) is a French-American artist living and working in Miami, FL. Her background in architecture has encouraged her to play with material and textures in an effort to mix the sensations of painting and sculpture. By questioning material, process, and purpose, Billet's work presents a dialogue between the analog and the digital via themes surrounding nature, absence, and materiality. Drawing from organic entities, her process begins by capturing textures through photography and abstract paintings. Source materials are later translated to computer-generated formats which enables her to machine-cut and etch the work onto wood surfaces.

Central to Billet's practice is a desire to foster conversations about how humanity can coexist with nature while embracing technology. Adhering to a strong craft tradition, she employs plywood as her main material and challenges the evolutionary trajectory it has undergone in the process. Embodying each piece with value and meaning, the highly industrialized plywood, once stripped of identity and connection to nature, is repurposed in a second life. Its disposition to be etched, cut, and malleable while remaining organic ties Billet's practice back to nature from beginning to end.
 
Billet was invited as a Special Project two years in a row at Untitled Art Fair, Miami Beach, 2021 and 2022. She was awarded an Art in Public Places opportunity from the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs in 2024, and an artist residency accompanied by a solo exhibition in the Miami Design District in 2024.

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