Dolmanisth Art: Past, Present, Future
GATHERED GROUND: RITUAL, COMMUNITY AND EARTH
Karen Dolmanisth’s GATHERED GROUND: RITUAL, COMMUNITY AND EARTH brings together the accumulated knowledge of more than four decades of interdisciplinary artistic practice. Working across drawing, painting, photography, video, sculpture, installation, textiles, found and gathered materials, performance, and hand-built ceramics, Dolmanisth approaches these diverse media as interconnected languages through which to explore embodiment, memory, … Read more
BODIES OF CLAY, Contained and Open
CERAMIC SCULPTURE: BODIES, VESSELS, ROOT FORMS Karen Dolmanisth’s hand-built ceramic sculptures emerge from more than four decades of trans-disciplinary practice encompassing drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, fiber, gathered materials, photography, performance, movement, and site-responsive environments. Clay enters this larger vocabulary as an elemental language through which the artist explores enduring concerns: body and psyche, … Read more
Past Present Future Oracles Priestesses & Healers In Communion With Primordial Divine Mother Consciousness
Past Present Future: Oracles, Priestesses, and Healers, In Communion With Primordial Divine Mother Consciousness Site-Sensitive Evolving Sculpture Environment by Karen Dolmanisth This installation emerges from a lifelong practice of attentive looking, contemplative making, and communion with the living world. At once sculptural, architectural, ritualistic, and deeply personal, the work unfolds through a lineage … Read more
SANCTUARY, GALLERIE 271, solo exhibition, Spring 2025
In Sanctuary, Dolmanisth explores sacred spaces-both internal and external-through an immersive body of work spanning drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking. Each piece becomes a contemplative vessel, inviting viewers into quiet encounters with presence, transformation, reverence and beauty. For Dolmanisth, sanctuary is not only a physical place but also a way of being-where attention … Read more
