Jacklyn Berta is a Milwaukee artist who uses traditional painting materials in nontraditional ways. Her interests lie within the realm of discovery and blurred categories. She builds canvases that are both industrial and organic; handmade and machine-made. She uses paint as both color and physical material. Jacklyn conceals and exposes with the intention to lure a viewer into curiosity; things hidden behind skins of paint and canvas offer an invitation and reward for looking. Her rhythmic stitching is analogous to the passing of time. As layers of material build upon each other, so does meaning- much like how objects lose and change definition over time. As this complexity grows, categories blur and things can simultaneously become everything and nothing.