"Karey Kessler’s work takes cartography and makes that naming into poetry. Her “fantasy maps and abstracted topography” use the map as a framework to build existential schemata and landscapes to delineate the states of mind. Her inky grids loosely outline terra incognita (again, colonial) and pins dropped on the ephemeral and spiritual.scattered like stardust. Kessler’s work finds resonance with Soo Hong, Kalina Winska, and Teresa Getty in Sky of the Mind at Shift Gallery. Together, the four artists present work that manipulates abstraction to suggest places beyond the physical." Amanda Manitach, The Stranger, October 1, 2026

Sky of the Mind
October 1-31, 2026 at Shift Gallery
Talk: Saturday, October 24, 2pm

Surge: a Geography of Flow
October 4-January 10, 2027 at The Museum of Northwest Art