Mya Kerner: These Whispers, These Tellings
Winston Wa虉chter Fine Art is excited to announce our first solo exhibition with Mya Kerner. In These Whispers, These Tellings, Seattle painter and sculptor Kerner pries into the ancestral knowledge of nature through a series of pensive, bittersweet landscapes. Her paintings are filled with barren trees, scattered boulders, and large pastel swaths of color that allow the viewer to fill in seemingly absent components. Kerner emphasizes the quiet, mystical power of ecology, highlighting these totemic symbols that remain standing after destruction. The exhibit suggests a way forward from grief and loss through the literal paths she paints, into the whispering, resilient landscapes that surround us.
鈥淲hat has burned and what remains. What is left standing. And how does it stand. These have been my guiding questions. I don鈥檛 claim to know 鈥� I just continue the journey through. I鈥檝e been told that is what my work sometimes feels like.鈥� 鈥� Mya Kerner
The show is coupled with a sound installation featuring translated poems from Kerner鈥檚 grandmother, whose hundredth birthday would have coincided with the exhibit. There is both an emphasis on the clarity that nature can bring us through its lulling, profound sounds, and its ability to connect and root us to our ancestors.
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Winston Wa虉chter Fine Art is excited to announce our first solo exhibition with Mya Kerner. In These Whispers, These Tellings, Seattle painter and sculptor Kerner pries into the ancestral knowledge of nature through a series of pensive, bittersweet landscapes. Her paintings are filled with barren trees, scattered boulders, and large pastel swaths of color that allow the viewer to fill in seemingly absent components. Kerner emphasizes the quiet, mystical power of ecology, highlighting these totemic symbols that remain standing after destruction. The exhibit suggests a way forward from grief and loss through the literal paths she paints, into the whispering, resilient landscapes that surround us.
鈥淲hat has burned and what remains. What is left standing. And how does it stand. These have been my guiding questions. I don鈥檛 claim to know 鈥� I just continue the journey through. I鈥檝e been told that is what my work sometimes feels like.鈥� 鈥� Mya Kerner
The show is coupled with a sound installation featuring translated poems from Kerner鈥檚 grandmother, whose hundredth birthday would have coincided with the exhibit. There is both an emphasis on the clarity that nature can bring us through its lulling, profound sounds, and its ability to connect and root us to our ancestors.
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