Karey Kessler
San Juan Island Museum of Art
THIS UNGRASPABLE WHOLE is Seattle artist Karey Kessler’s first solo museum show. Kessler’s work conveys the unmappable, intangible essence existing beneath the more familiar structures of the visible world using cartographic imagery. Through overlaid map imagery and evocative text, she creates poetic landscapes that invite multiple interpretations. Like a cartographer, she labels areas — not with real locations, but where the marks and colors evoke feelings, thoughts, and memories. This process of combining cartography with abstract marks and colors charts new territory
