Jen Wohlner is a St. Louis-based artist working primarily in pen, ink, and colored pencil to create large-scale drawings. Her influences range from the study of symbols to large data systems. Wohlner builds on an evolving visual language to write her own history, creating abstract self-portraits. Her work is also influenced by her background in software engineering, where abstraction is used to manage enormous software systems, selectively obscuring technical complexities for the use of engineers building on top of an existing code layer. Wohlner sees abstraction in her work in a similar way, layering visual information to create a functional seamless system. Ultimately her work serves as an exercise in perception, memory and honesty revealing that even the most robust datasets cannot capture the warmth, friction, and fullness of a queer life.