Exhibition Description:

Problem Child is an exhibition featuring a selection of works from Kessler’s Urban South series. Urban South explores the thematic and historical connections between abstraction in painting and ideologies of existentialism and transcendence by reexamining philosophical and spiritual reverence through a contemporary socio-cultural perspective and personal memory.

Bio:        

Jamie Walters Kessler is a contemporary post-conceptual artist with an interdisciplinary practice that incorporates thought experiments, object-making, art-actions, intervention, system-making, sound, video, and social practice. Her practice examines and considers sociocultural subjects and public policy of by re-imagining the connection between creativity and civic action. Kessler's practice is influenced by histories and methodologies of community organizing, democratic practices, collective action, and social activism. 

She has exhibited nationally and internationally through exhibitions such as  the Carnegie Museum of Art, Erie Art Museum, the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, Digital America, the VII International Exhibition of Mail Art, Rome, Corner Projects- Chicago, GAZE Film Festival San Francisco, Rosebud Film Festival of Washington D.C., Ice House Studios PGH, University of Pittsburgh, Robert Morris University, and Feminist Spaces. She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art. Originally from Richmond, Virginia, she now lives and works in the Kent, Ohio area.