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Jesse Willenbring received an MFA from Hunter College in 2010 and has recent solo exhibitions at Ceysson Bénétière (Paris) Thomas Duncan Gallery (Los Angeles). His work has been included in group exhibitions at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Lehmann Maupin, and Rivington Arms. Willenbring was the co-curator of Don’t Perish at Leo Koenig Projekte, Rose Colored Glasses at GBE @ Passerby, and is the co-editor of P & Co., a biannual newspaper. Simultaneously, he co-founded a creative agency with his wife, Bevin McNamara. In collaboration with McNamara, Willenbring has worked as curator, art director, designer and producer for TSP. Their clients have included Absolut, RedBull, NBC Unviseral, Erin McKenna’s Bakery NYC, and others. Willenbring lives and works with his wife and daughter in Los Angeles.

Bevin McNamara is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles California where she co-founded the creative agency, The Sunset People, focusing on visual storytelling of all stripes. Bevin’s motion picture career began after graduating from NYU Film in 1999 when she promptly began working with Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme. Bevin produced and edited The Agronomist, a documentary about Haitian radio journalist Jean Dominique that won the Gotham Spirit Award and was short-listed for the Academy Award. McNamara and Demme continued to collaborate for over 10 years while Bevin returned to NYU for a MS in Digital Imaging & Design. Upon graduation Bevin served as VFX Art Director / Producer for the Emmy-nominated ABC special Last Days on Earth. She later joined NBC Universal, where she was Senior Art Director, leading a full-scale rebrand of MSNBC. In 2011, she re-located to Los Angeles and formed The Sunset People working with a range of clients from the artistically driven to the corporate funded: Red Bull, NBC Universal, Absolut, BabyCakes NYC, Hyper Hyper & Darren Bader to name a few.