Solastagia
Shift Gallery
September 1 - October 1, 2022
Opening Reception September 1st, 5-8pm

Solastagia is part 2 of my "Imagined Topographies of a Vanishing Wilderness" exhibit. Solastalgia means environmental grief or a "place-based" distress for the vanishing wilderness and environmental changes brought on by climate change.

CARBON
The Vestibule
September 8 - October 15 2022
Reception Sat Oct 10 6-8 pm

Group exhibition of work that raises awareness of carbon footprints, emissions, or cycles through material, form, or content.

Colleen RJC Bratton, Dain Susman, Erin Kendig, frameRateZero, Il , Jocelyn Beausire, Karey Kessler, Lauren Iida, Megan Prince, Melinda Hurst Frye, Peter Christenson, Robin Green, Sean Gallagher, Serrah Russell, Suze Woolf, Vanessa Lanza

Shifting Gears
Shift Gallery Member Show
Shift Gallery
July 7-30, 2022

Fabulous
Shift Gallery member show
December 2-18, 2021

Embodied Forest
ecoartspace
fall 2021 online + printed book
curated by Lilian Fraiji

IMAGINED TOPOGRAPHIES OF A VANISHING WILDERNESS
Shift Gallery
September 2 – October 2, 2021
I spent the summer 2021 creating imaginary topographies — blending together contour maps with my own wandering lines. While working on these topographic maps, I was thinking about the vanishing wilderness. It is astonishing that only 23% of Earth’s wilderness is left.

Interdependence
Curated by George Rodriguez.
Kirkland Arts Center
May 27-July 31, 2021

"it must be here somewhere" and "Lost and Found"
Shift Gallery
May 6 – 29, 2021
The show is comprised of two parts. The first part, Lost and Found, is a multi-media collaborative work between myself, Anna Macrae, Miha Sarani and David Traylor which has been inspired by the essays of William Marsh. The second part, playfully entitled “it must be here somewhere”, is a group show which includes my new and current work.

Identity and Authenticity
Adas Israel, Washington DC
April 5 to May 15, 2021
click here to read what the curator, Ori Z. Soltes, wrote about my work in the catalogue

Artists Sunday- a day dedicated to promoting independent artists across the country amid a week of Black Friday deals." (Quote via Seattle Times).

Artists of Building 30 Annual Exhibition
November-December, 2020
Virtual Walk Through

Bounce
Shift Gallery
November 16 – December 19, 2020
The ability to rebound; spring
The capacity to regain one’s spirit or optimism
Bounce celebrates the resilience and spirit of Shift Gallery members

Mapping Truths
Bellevue Art Museum
July 11, 2020 - September 27, 2020
Curated by Siri Benn

here is the Place
March 5-28, 2020
Opening reception: First Thursday, March 5, 5-8pm
Artist talk: Saturday March 14, 2pm
Shift Gallery 312 Washington Street, Seattle, WA 98104

Time Sensitive: Art explores time and climate
BROTO Conference 2020

My piece in this show explores the uncertainty and ecological grief caused by climate change.

I am now represented by ArtFare a curated online platform for artists, curators, and patrons of the arts!

Exhibition: March 5 - April 25
Opening Reception: Thursday March 5, 6-8 pm
April Reception: Thursday, April 2, 6-9pm
Closing Reception & Peoples Choice Awards: Saturday, April 25, 4-6pm

CoCA in Pioneer Square, 114 Third Ave. S., Seattle, WA 98104
Gallery hours: Thursday through Saturday, 11am – 4pm

I participated in a four month Bridge Residency with the SciArt Initiative. You can read the weekly blog written in collaboration with geographer Innisfree McKinnon HERE.

Duet — is a group show that pairs the work of B30West artists and other artists invited from outside the building.

My artwork "duets" with Tara Tamarabucci's work (check out her amazing art here: www.taratamaribuchi.com).

The Magnuson Park Gallery, in Building 30 West 7448 63rd Ave. NE, Magnuson Park, Seattle

Best of Shift includes four of my paintings along with artwork by other Shift members.

Opening: Thursday December 5th, 5pm – 8pm

Shift Gallery 312 S. Washington Street, Seattle WA 98104

Two of my drawings were selected for this international drawing exhibition, "Visual Thinking" at the Ronald Barr Gallery, Indiana University Southeast. August 28-September 26, 2019

An image of my work is included in this review of the show:
Visual Thinking Exhibition

24 hours of painting followed by an auction of the work created. All three of my paintings found homes and the profits help support Seattle's Center on Contemporary Art, CoCA
Dates: Sept. 12-14, 2019

My painting, A Portable Homeland, was selected to be in, Downriver in the Multiverse, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The work in this show is inspired by global and international events, the uncertainty of technology and more intimate considerations of the human condition, spirituality and the sublime.
Exhibition: June 28 - October 13, 2019

I am a member of Shift Gallery and we will be at Seattle Art Fair this August 1-4. Come visit us! Booth number coming soon.

Shift Booth Curator: Nichole DeMente Exhibitors include: Robin Arnitz, Leah Gerrard, Stephanie Hargrave, Cynthia Hibbard, Karey Kessler, Karen Klee-Atlin, Anna Macrae, Amanda C. Sweet, David Traylor, Jodi Waltier.
Dates: August 1-4

Over the past three years I have had the honor of collaborating with an incredibly talented group of artists on co-operative drawings. Blending the work of abstract and figurative artists - the results are inventive and unique.

Our first exhibit is at Columbia City Gallery. The closing reception is on August 8th when Coyote Central youth writers will read flash fiction pieces inspired by the drawings. There will be an exhibition catalog at the gallery that reveals the progressive stages that are hidden in the layers of each drawing. For more info about our process visit: https://www.codrawseattle.com
Special event/closing: August 8, 6-8pm
Exhibition: June 26- August 11

image above: Linda Davidson, Karey Kessler, Marisa Vitiello

My painting Primeval Waters was selected by jurors Sarra Scherb and Shayla M. Alarie to be included in Fracture at the Kirkland Arts Center.
Opening: June 28, 6-8pm
Exhibition: June 25 - August 3

My work is included in "The Abstraction Haiku" at the Tacoma Art Museum.
"The title, “The Abstraction Haiku” centers on an idea of abstraction as haiku, which points to the intentional use of paired visual dichotomies as a way of focusing on a brief moment in time; a use of provocative, colorful images; an ability to be read in one breath; and a sense of sudden enlightenment and illumination."
Participating Artists: Deanne Belinoff, Anna Macrae, Audrey Tulimiero Welch, Dede Falcone, Angela Wales, Karey Kessler, and Teresa Getty.
Exhibition runs from April 5th - June 30th, 2019

I have a temporary public art installation, "once, there was WILDERNESS here" on the Tollbooth Gallery in Tacoma (near the corner of Broadway and South 11th), sponsored by Spaceworks Tacoma. The installation is on view from April-July 2019.

Thank you Spaceworks Tacoma for giving me this opportunity and Fast Signs for fabrication!

A Portable Homeland is on view in the exhibition Art on Paper 2019: The 45th Exhibition at the Weatherspoon Art Museum from February 3- May 5, 2019

between Place and Thought opens at shift gallery, during Pioneer Square First Thursday Art Walk, February 7th, 5 - 8 p.m.
The show runs from February 3 - March 2, 2019.
Gallery hours: Friday & Saturday 12 - 5 p.m. or by appointment.

This series of watercolor paintings is on view until February 3, 2019, at Front Seat, located at 915 E. Pine St, Suite 401 in the historic Oddfellows building in Capitol Hill Seattle. The gallery at Front Seat is curated by Laurie Kearney at Ghost Gallery. The work is available online - ghostgalleryshop.com.

Roar! Your Voice, Your Story, Our Truth
Join me for the artists' reception on Saturday, August 18th from 5pm-7pm for at the Columbia City Gallery: 4864 Rainier Ave. S.

Artists were chosen by local jurors, Dawna Holloway (Studio e, Director), Naomi Ishisaka (Photographer and Journalist), Elisheba Johnson, (Public Art project Manager for the Seattle office of Arts and Culture).

There's a celebration for the new Rainier Valley Greenway and Art Interruptions this Saturday, August 11th from noon-4pm. The artists will be on the west side of the Rainier Beach Playfield. My street graphics are installed on the sidewalks and some of the wheel-stops along 46th Avenue between S. Kenyon Street and S. Cloverdale.

Please join me at the A Gallery for the opening reception of "A Portable Homeland" on Thursday, May 3rd, during Pioneer Square Seattle's First Thursday Art Walk. 117 S. Main Street from 5:30-8:30pm

More maps! After visiting me at the opening reception for "A Portable Homeland" at A-Gallery on May 3rd, during the Pioneer Square First Thursday Art Walk — walk around the corner to see "You Are Here, Too" at '57 Biscayne curated by Jane Richlovsky and Annie Brule, with Mesker Maps. The show is an homage to maps, map-making, and cartography by an impressive and diverse group of PNW artists (two of my maps are in the show including the map pictured above). The show will be on display through August 30.

The painting pictured above, May, is included in Creativity Persists, at the Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA), juried by Jody Bento, Director of SAM Gallery. The opening reception is on May 3rd from 6-9pm during the Pioneer Square Seattle's First Thursday Art Walk. The show is on display from April 26-May 26, 2018

I’m honored to have the opportunity to show “Climate Change is Real” in LA as part of a group show about the guilt of our generation. How can my generation and the generations that came before me say to our children and grandchildren "we could have done more to stop climate change" and not feel guilty?

Guilty Parties, The Gallery @The Braid, Santa Monica, CA. The piece is on display from May 5-June 10, 2018.

This piece was included in a group show, Re-Acclimating, that addressed climate change, at the Kirkland Arts Center, 620 Market Street, Kirkland, WA. January 9-February 17, 2018

I am honored to be invited to show at the Inscape Arts and Cultural Center gallery, 815 Seattle Blvd S, Seattle, WA.

I hope you can join me at the opening reception: Thursday, January 4th, 5-8pm.
Other gallery hours for the show: Fri. Jan. 12th from 12-3pm and Sun. Jan. 14th 2-5pm or, by appointment.

If you can't make it in January, this is a work in progress and I plan to create another three to four feet of this map before showing it again in May/June in the A Gallery in Pioneer Square. That opening will be on May 3rd, 5-8pm.

My studio, along with the studios of the other artists of Building 30 in Magnuson Park will be open to the public on Sunday, November 5, from 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Also that Sunday in the building, the Magnuson Park Gallery celebrates the opening of its first annual selected works exhibit of Building 30 artists, Art is the Only Choice. The exhibit features one of my works along with 25 other artists working in Building 30 and is on view during regular gallery hours through December 16, with all works for sale in time for holiday gift giving.

The Magnuson Park Gallery is operated by Sand Point Arts and Cultural Exchange (SPACE), a non-profit dedicated to building community and facilitating arts and cultural activities for the public within the park and the Sand Point Naval Air Station Historic District.

Vanishing Places
A Shunpike Storefront Installation
partially funded by a smART grant from the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture

Located on Harrison St. between Boren Ave. N. and Terry Ave. N. in South Lake Union

August-November 2017

My Storefronts installation is composed of recent works on paper that use the image of scaffolding and abstract structures to reflect the rapid development in Seattle (particularly in South Lake Union), and the iconic image of the sky scraper as the symbol of capitalism. The work also explores the idea of an imagined invisible scaffolding that holds up the universe, and an intangible essence that flows between the more familiar structures of the visible world. The work hovers somewhere between poetry, painting, and maps.

Please join me for a FREE Art Walk on Monday September 25th. Each Storefront artist, including myself, will give a talk infront of their public art site. We will meet at the corner of John and Boren (right next to Thai Thani Kitchen) at 6pm. No need to register. Just show up!
Happy hour to follow at Ballard Pizza Co. SLU.

www.kareykessler.com
www.StorefrontsSeattle.com

Seattle Art Fair is August 3-6 with hundreds of galleries from all over the world in the Century Link Field Event Center, and shows spread at galleries throughout the city.

That week-end, two of my paintings will be in a juried charitable art show at the Bemis Building, from August 4-6, benefiting Facing Homelessness. The show is called "Unity at the Bemis."

And, my work will be on exhibit at the Inscape Building which is having Open Studios on Saturday August 5th.

If you find yourself traveling to Spokane this fall (or anytime in the future) check out the signal box on the corner of 3rd and Thor — it will be covered with a vinyl version of my painting, Wonderment:

My painting, "a delicate balance" is included the CoCA member's show, Make America Create Again. The exhibition opens during the Pioneer Square Art Walk on April 6th from 6-9pm.

Just finished the week long EDGE Professional Development Program at Centrum located in Fort Warden Park, Port Townsen, WA. The program was created by Artist Trust an amazing non-profit in Seattle that supports artists in their creative journeys. I have a lot of information to digest and lots of new friends to keep in touch with!