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About Karey Kessler

Karey Kessler (b. 1974) creates map-paintings that contain ideas about physical, spiritual, internal, and temporal spaces. She received her BA in Fine Arts and Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She is represented by Shift Gallery in Seattle and her work can be seen in both the flat files of the Pierogi Gallery (NYC) and in the online registry of White Columns Gallery (NYC). Her work is included in the The Map as Art (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009), by Kitty Harmon; From Here to There: A Curious Collection From the Hand Drawn Map Association (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010) and The Embodied Forest (ecoartspace, 2021). Her work is also included in Orion Magazine (2021), Lilith Magazine (2022), The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies (2022) and Vrklempt Magazine (2023). In 2022 Meta Open Arts commissioned her to create a mural at the Meta Reality Labs (Redmond, WA). In 2020 her work was included in Time Sensitive, at the Broto: Art-Climate-Science convention (online due to Covid-19) and in 2019 she participated in the SciArt Initiative Bridge Residency. Kessler has shown her work widely, including exhibits at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum (PA), the Weatherspoon Art Museum (NC), and the Katonah Art Museum (NY). She has work currently hanging in Seeing the Unseen: Science + Art at the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art (CA) August 21 – November 18, 2023.

Karey Kessler (b. 1974) creates map-paintings that contain ideas about physical, spiritual, internal, and temporal spaces. She received her BA in Fine Arts and Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She is represented by Shift Gallery in Seattle and her work can be seen in both the flat files of the Pierogi Gallery (NYC) and in the online registry of White Columns Gallery (NYC). Her work is included in the The Map as Art (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009), by Kitty Harmon; From Here to There: A Curious Collection From the Hand Drawn Map Association (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010) and The Embodied Forest (ecoartspace, 2021). Her work is also included in Orion Magazine (2021), Lilith Magazine (2022), The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies (2022) and Vrklempt Magazine (2023).

In 2022 Meta Open Arts commissioned her to create a mural at the Meta Reality Labs (Redmond, WA). In 2020 her work was included in Time Sensitive, at the Broto: Art-Climate-Science convention (online due to Covid-19) and in 2019 she participated in the SciArt Initiative Bridge Residency. Kessler has shown her work widely, including exhibits at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum (PA), the Weatherspoon Art Museum (NC), and the Katonah Art Museum (NY). She has work currently hanging in Seeing the Unseen: Science + Art at the
Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art (CA)  August 21 – November 18, 2023.

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Articles with Karey Kessler

Interconnections between memory, time and place

Karey Kessler creates map-paintings that contain ideas about physical, spiritual, internal, and temporal spaces.

“My maps tell the story of an ever changing environment, impermanence, and the immensity of time. They tell stories about the interconnected ecosystems of the world that don’t end where one country’s borders end and another’s begins: how both air and water (and therefore pollution), defy borders. The stories include deep time (before humans were on earth) and the eternal things that will remain once we’re gone.”