They Will Not Complete It In Their Lifetimes unites the practices of Emily Llamazales, Aaron Kagan Putt, and Ben Steele, three artists whose works transform materials and forms into speculative environments and aspirations. Collectively, they share an interest in hybrid forms, imperfection, and the layering of time, creating spaces where objects and ideas become artifacts of fact and fiction.

Emily Llamazales’s ceramic and metal sculptures evoke terrain and microscopic organisms through layering found objects with personal significance and experimenting with shape, material, and texture. Through this process, Llamazales’s hybrid forms create a vocabulary of overlapping elements interpreted as archaeological remnants of an evolving world.

Aaron Kagan Putt’s playful, process-driven approach to his work merges architectural structures with experimental materiality, capturing moments that oscillate between legibility and abstraction. By densely arranging imagery and objects, the artworks operate as apertures, opening pathways for interpretation and grounding abstraction in intimate, hopeful gestures.

Ben Steele's practice roots itself in the theoretical exploration of worldbuilding and search for knowledge, where constructed models and historical, painterly landscapes evoke the tension between human-made structures and nature. Drawing from futurism and cinematography Steele's work embodies themes of creation and ruin, embracing the inevitability of time's impact.

Ultimately, Llamazales, Putt, and Steele reflect on the human desire to create. The works in the exhibition suggest that fragments, imperfections, and unfulfilled attempts hold as much meaning as finished forms, offering space where time, memory, and potential converge. They Will Not Complete It In Their Lifetimes presents a collective vision of resilience and optimism, inviting viewers to consider the beauty and possibility inherent in what remains unfinished.