JAK is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, textiles, and fashion design. Known for her abstract compositions and experimental use of materials, JAK explores the physicality of making—using movement, expressive marks, and layered textures to channel emotion and lived experience.

She began her career creating large-scale murals throughout the Chicagoland area before moving to Los Angeles in 2012 to launch her leather fashion line, JAKIMAC, which became known for handcrafted, sculptural accessories. After nearly a decade in fashion, JAK returned to painting in 2020 during the pandemic. Early works from 2020–2021 feature muted palettes and incorporate leather remnants in patchwork, quilt-like constructions—blurring boundaries between painting and textile art.

In late 2022, JAK relocated to Nashville, TN, marking a pivotal shift in her practice. Immersed in a new environment, her work embraced vibrant color and expansive gesture. Recent explorations move further into materiality through textile-based assemblages and tapestry-like pieces, combining painted canvas with stitched, layered, and repurposed fabrics.

JAK’s work resists fixed subjects; instead, it prioritizes process—an ongoing dialogue between body, material, and space.

Photo by Chicago artist Ron Hines.