finding a form that remembers a future

SNAP is pleased to present finding a form that remembers a future, featuring new work by Carrie Phillips Kieser. The exhibition runs from May 3 – 31, 2025 at SNAP Gallery.

Opening Reception: Saturday May 3, 7pm-9pm

Artist Talk: May 3, 6-7pm

Artist Statement

As a print media and drawing artist, I create work that reflects my peripatetic practice of gathering within the porous boundaries of spaces and places. My process is deeply rooted in exploration—both physical and conceptual—as I navigate delicate and complex ecosystems, examining their imagined or perceived borders. Through poetic meditations, I seek to unravel the layered relationships between humankind and nature, bridging emotional realms with intellectual understandings.

My work weaves together themes of romantic yearning and precarious loss, revealing how we are all intimately entangled within the landscapes we inhabit. Each mark, impression, and material choice speaks to the impermanence and fragility of these interconnections, evoking both a sense of longing and an awareness of ecological precarity.

Through my practice, I aim to foster a contemplative space where boundaries dissolve, inviting viewers to engage with the tensions between presence and absence, memory and materiality, permanence and flux. Whether drawn, printed, or gathered, my works serve as quiet acts of observation, devotion, and inquiry—an attempt to make visible the subtle, often overlooked entanglements that shape our world.

About the Artist

Carrie Phillips Kieser is primarily a print media artist living and working in Mi’kma’ki / Nova Scotia,
Canada. She holds an MFA from NSCAD University, (NS), a BA in Art History and Fine Arts with
distinction from Mount Allison University (NB), and has studied Art History at UCLA, (CA) USA. She
has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Most recently winning the 2024 Okanagan Print
Triennial in Kelowna B.C and Nocturne’s Rising Artist award, as well as a State Foundation on
Culture and the Arts Recognition Award as part of the 2022 Pacific States Biennial North America
Print Exhibition at the University of Hawaii, Hilo. Between the years of 2014 and 2018 she was the
Executive Director of Alberta Printmakers (A/P), a non-profit & artist-run centre in Moh-kins-tsis /
Calgary, Alberta Until 2024 she served on the board of directors for Visual Arts Nova Scotia.
Currently she is an ICA Faculty at NSCAD University teaching Drawing and Introduction to Studio
Practice.

www.carriephillipskieser.com