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Past Present Future Oracles Priestesses & Healers In Communion With Primordial Devine 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

Handbuilt Ceramic Sculptures with select views, 2023 – 2024

BLUE NECK LADY, Hand Built Wood Fired, Glazed Ceramic Sculpture, 9” X 10.5”,  2024 BLUE NECK LADY, Hand Built Wood Fired, Glazed Ceramic Sculpture, 9” X 10.5”,  2024 BLUE NECK LADY, Hand Built Wood Fired, Glazed Ceramic Sculpture, 9” X 10.5”,  2024 BLUE NECK LADY, Hand Built Wood Fired, Glazed Ceramic Sculpture, 9” X 10.5”,  2024 BLUE … Read more

New Hearth Works, through fire, lunar vessels, transformed, out of this earth, out of hand, human touch, light through, to dance with

Dolmanisth Solo Exhibition: NEW HEARTH WORKS Gallerie 271, Monterey, Massachusetts Opening the summer season in the Berkshires, MA, NEW HEARTH WORKS invites viewers to immerse themselves in a gallery experience featuring pottery, painting, and prints. This exhibition showcases a curated selection of Dolmanisth’s recent hand-built ceramic sculptures, created during her tenure as a … Read more

SUNY COLUMBIA-GREENE, FOUNDATION GALLERIES PRESENTS KAREN DOLMANISTH AND LESLIE ALFIN WITH THE EXHIBITION META, HUDSON, NY, SPRING 2024

Socrates believed that if enough questions were asked, truth would be discovered. META is a collaboration by two artists who have made careers of truth seeking via seemingly incongruent method, process, and practice. Leslie Alfin explores the internet following data paths tracing the devolution of original contexts to the deepest meta-levels where meaning … Read more

SUNY Columbia-Greene, Foundation Galleries presents karen dolmanisth and leslie Alfin with the exhibition meta, hudson, ny, spring 2024

Dolmanisth, Foundation Gallery II, Earth Mother Goddess Hearts, Lunar Vessels, Lunar Orbs, Glaze Fired, Hand Built Ceramic Sculptures and Hand Carved Black Birch, Silver and Yellow Birch Dolmanisth, Foundation Gallery II, PERSEPHONE, THE MAIDEN DAUGHTER’S JOURNEY’S, Hand Built Glaze Fired Ceramic Sculpture, WAVE FORM SERIES, Hand Shaped Aluminum Wall Sculpture, Ground Sculpture Elements: … Read more

VEIL Dance Ritual, SUNSET, Forest, late autumn

An Homage to Eadweard Muybridge Dress Dance Ritual and Veil Project The Dress Dance Ritual and Veil Project began formation within my workshop sessions in Amber Imrie’s class, Embodying Process and Imrie’s open forum Friday group Domesticity and Nature. The seeds were also planted for it to emerge in the fertile soil of … Read more

DRESS DANCE RITUAL IMAGES

Dress Dance Ritual and Veil Project The Dress Dance Ritual and Veil Project began formation within my workshop sessions in Amber Imrie’s class, Embodying Process and Imrie’s open forum Friday group Domesticity and Nature. The seeds were also planted for it to emerge in the fertile soil of my first TAAS Course, Alicia … Read more

Geissler Gallery Sculpture Performance, Enheduanna, An Homage, Her voice • She Writes

Click here for the Gallery Release Click here for the Opening Conversations, Dolmanisth with StoneLeigh Burnham Students, Artist Melinda Mara Frederick, and Musician Vince Frederick The Shoe Sculptures Relics Dishware Musicians, Jim Nelson, David Durst Hands Guestures Vessels • Orbs Linens Mirror • Reflection Place Sand Pour She Runs VISUAL CYCLES, empty • … Read more

Geissler Gallery Presents Karen Dolmanisth and Olivia Bernard, Visual Cycles, empty / Full, absence / presence

Click here for the Gallery Release Click here for the Performance Dolmanisth, Site-specific Sculpture Environment, Geissler Gallery, ENHEDUANNA, Author of Inanna, Lady Of Largest Heart, A Heroine’s Quest, An Homage, As part of Two Person Exhibition, November, 2022, VISUAL CYCLES, Empty • Full, Absence • Presence, With Olivia Bernard Dolmanisth, Site-specific Sculpture Environment, … Read more

CONTEMPLATION: Circles. Relating and Intersecting, turnPark art space, berkshires, ma

CONTEMPLATION: Circles. Relating and Intersecting ( Heavenly Bodies, Celestial Phenomena, Point, Present and Infinity )   The past three years, my studio work has been focused in a series of developments called: Spirit of Place as Muse, with the most recent work named “CONTEMPLATION: CIRCLES. Relating and Intersecting”. The tall standing, three sided … Read more

CIRCLES RELATING AND INTERCONNECTING / PAINTING SERIES, JUNE 2020, THREE NEW PAINTINGS IN PROCESS, STAGE 2

June 2020, Beginning New Work in the “Circles Relating, and Interconnecting”, Series of Ancient Ground Rock and Oil Pigment on Linen Paintings. Interconnecting and Relating, Stage 2 Interconnecting, Stage 2 Intersection with Cerulean and Phthalo Turquoise, Stage 2, Ancient Volcanic Rock Painting In Process : 3 Ancient volcanic rock and oil pigment paint … Read more

Step In time, Coastal Contemporary Gallery

Artist Talk Video Click here to see the same talk with the questions printed onscreen Installation Videos Installation Process Videos Installation Process Videos Installation Process Video

step in time, APRIL 2020, Coastal contemporary gallery, newport, ri

Exhibition Statement We are presenting three artists who are working with the concept of time, space and memory in very unique ways.  By exhibiting Karen Dolmanisth, Gunnar Norquist and Kenneth Steinkamp, Coastal Contemporary Gallery will curate paintings, site-specific installation and renderings as three-dimensional objects, for ‘STEP IN TIME’.  Their visuals are energized by … Read more

Karen Dolmanisth / Enheduanna -- Oliva Bernard / Billow

GEISSLER GALLERY PRESENTS OLIVIA BERNARD + KAREN DOLMANISTH VISUAL CYCLES OCTOBER 21 – NOVEMBER 18TH 2022

GEISSLER GALLERY PRESENTS Olivia Bernard + Karen Dolmanisth Visual Cycles October 21 – November 18th 2022   Karen Dolmanisth / Enheduanna — Oliva Bernard / Billow GALLERY RECEPTION: Thursday October 27th, 6-8pm Gallery Hours: Monday-Saturday / 8am-4pm. Geissler Gallery is pleased to present a duet exhibition between Olivia Bernard and Karen Dolmanisth. Bernard … Read more

dolmanisth, SEA LIGHT & DARK, paintings and Sculpture installation, Coastal Contemporary Gallery, newport, Rhode Island, Step In Time

SCULPTURE INSTALLATION WITH THREAD , GLASS, COASTAL SHELL, SAND AND ANCIENT VOLCANIC GROUND ROCK Artists statement For Step In Time, at Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport, RI   For about thirty years I have been developing sculpture installation commissions utilizing thread to activate inner space and create abstract geometric drawings in space. The sculpture … Read more

NEMETON, LEAN-SA DLUTH RI CLIU DO SHINNEAR, GRUBBS GALLERY, WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON ACADEMY, MA

“NEMETON, lean-sa dluth ri cliu do shinnear, Sacred Grove” Time-Based Changing Installation, With Composer J.B. Weeks GRUBBS GALLERY, Williston Northampton Academy Easthampton, MA “NEMETON lean-sa dluth ri cliu do shinnear, Sacred Grove” Time-Based Changing Installation, With Composer J.B. Weeks GRUBBS GALLERY, Williston Northampton Academy Easthampton, MA

tributaries

2012 “TRACINGS AND TEXT”, “TRIBUTARIES” with Kathryn Myers and Charlotte Cain Three Rivers Community College Art Gallery, Norwich, CT

HEAR US. Water, Sand, Sky, Reflection and Light, THE QUARRY SCULPTURE PARK, CONTEMPORARY ARTS INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE AND SOUND FESTIVAL, ACTON, MA

“HEAR US ALL -
Inner Listening, and Voice, Be Acknowledged,
for Each Human Being,
Water, Sand, Sky, Reflection and Light”
THE QUARRY,
Sculpture Park, Performance Art and Sound Art,
CONTEMPORARY ARTS INTERNATIONAL, Acton, MA

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“HEAR US ALL -
Inner Listening, and Voice, Be Acknowledged,
for Each Human Being,
Water, Sand, Sky, Reflection and Light”
THE QUARRY,
Sculpture Park, Performance Art and Sound Art,
CONTEMPORARY ARTS INTERNATIONAL, Acton, MA

GRACE, QUERITICA GALLERY, ASSI GHAT, BANARAS, INDIA

“GRACE", Detail, with Ashok Leaves,

A Project Series: "The River Ganges, Walking”

In Presented in the Context of a

Two Person Exhibition of Paintings,

with Fulbright Scholar, Kathryn Myers,

A Solo Interactive, Meditation Performative Work:

GREETINGS BANARAS,

Collaborative Sculpture Installation with Students from BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY, Banaras, India

QERITICA GALLERY, Assi Ghat, Banaras, INDIA

 

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“GRACE", Detail, with Ashok Leaves,

A Project Series: "The River Ganges, Walking”

In Presented in the Context of a

Two Person Exhibition of Paintings,

with Fulbright Scholar, Kathryn Myers,

A Solo Interactive, Meditation Performative Work:

GREETINGS BANARAS,

Collaborative Sculpture Installation with Students from BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY, Banaras, India

QERITICA GALLERY, Assi Ghat, Banaras, INDIA

River as Spirit of Place

“RIVER AS SPIRIT OF PLACE” “RIVER AS SPIRIT OF PLACE” “RIVER AS SPIRIT OF PLACE” “RIVER AS SPIRIT OF PLACE” “RIVER AS SPIRIT OF PLACE” “RIVER AS SPIRIT OF PLACE” “RIVER AS SPIRIT OF PLACE” “RIVER AS SPIRIT OF PLACE” “RIVER AS SPIRIT OF PLACE” “RIVER AS SPIRIT OF PLACE” “RIVER AS SPIRIT … Read more

AWE, LIFE LINES OF CONNECTION & CONTINUITY

UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

“LIFE LINES OF CONNECTION & CONTINUITY”,

On Site Installation,    Collaboration with George Trakas’   “ISLE OF VIEW”

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UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

“LIFE LINES OF CONNECTION & CONTINUITY”,

On Site Installation,    Collaboration with George Trakas’   “ISLE OF VIEW”

spirit of place as muse

SACRED GROUND SACRED GROUND SACRED GROUND Ancient Volcanic Rock ( Rhode Island Coastal ) and Oil Pigment on Linen Ancient Volcanic Rock ( Rhode Island Coastal ) and Oil Pigment on Linen Ancient Volcanic Rock ( Rhode Island Coastal ) and Oil Pigment on Linen

THE BALANCE: NATURE / SPIRIT / BODY / BREATH IMMANENCE, THE MEAD MUSEUM OF ART, AMHERST COLLEGE, MA

THE MEAD MUSEUM OF FINE ART, Amherst, MA.

Two Collaborative Performances, with Musicians: Jazz and Pop Music Duo, TOO HUMAN, and On Sitar, Sandy Cortez-Grieg, Aaron Hayden on Stearn's Steeple Nine-Bell Chimes. Dancer, Choreographer, Barbara Cortez-Grieg, Executive Director Curator, Elizabeth Barker and Terry Rooney, Curator of The Amherst Biennial

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“THE BALANCE-NATURE / SPIRIT / BODY / BREATH IMMANENCE”, shown at THE MEAD MUSEUM OF FINE ART, Amherst, MA.

“THE BALANCE-NATURE / SPIRIT / BODY / BREATH IMMANENCE”, shown at THE MEAD MUSEUM OF FINE ART, Amherst, MA.

WATER, EARTH, TRANSFORMATION/ WINTERBERRY PERCUSSION/ CIRCLE, SQUARE, TRIANGLE / LINE, WAVE, PRIMORDIAL FORM AND SPACE

THREE NEW SOLO PERFORMATIVE WORKS:

1. WATER, EARTH, TRANSFORMATION

2. WINTERBERRY PERCUSSION

3. CIRCLE, SQUARE, TRIANGLE / LINE, WAVE, PRIMORDIAL FORM AND SPACE

GEOFFREY YOUNG GALLERY, Great Barrington, MA, 2019

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THREE NEW PERFORMATIVE WORKS:

1. WATER, EARTH, TRANSFORMATION

2. WINTERBERRY PERCUSSION

3. CIRCLE, SQUARE, TRIANGLE / LINE, WAVE, PRIMORDIAL FORM AND SPACE

GEOFFREY YOUNG GALLERY, Great Barrington, MA, 2019

Tracings and Texts

“CHANCE AND INTENT” shown within the “TRIBUTARIES” exhibition, with Kathryn Myers and Charlotte Cain, at THREE RIVERS COLLEGE, Norwich, CT.

THREADBARE, ILLUSORY MEETING PLACES, A BRIEF TRIBUTE TO PEOPLE AND PLACES, TWO PERSON EXHIBIT WITH KATHRYN MYERS, WINDSOR CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER, CT

THREADBARE, an evolving, transient installation by Karen Dolmanisth, for “Illusory Meeting Places”, with Paintings by Kathryn Myers, at The Windsor Art Center, at the Freight House, Windsor, CT, September 19 – November 24, 2009, Artist Talk, October 15 6:30, photo details of the work in progress

INTIMATE WITH ALL THINGS

Temporal On Site Sculpture, connecting upper and lower spaces of the site, TABLA RASA GALLERY, Graphite Drawings and Floor to Ceiling Sculpture, made with Wool/Cotton Thread and Bamboo Leaves From Shore Road Park in Sunset Park Brooklyn. Brooklyn Eagle writer, Harold Egein interviewing Karen Dolmanisth while the ephemeral sculpture was in progress. Exhibit … Read more

Beingblue, Leap!, Arteon In motion

LA MAMA, New York City, NY,

Performance Project,

BEINGBLUE!

Solo Performance Project,

Improvisational Collaboration with Olga Zissi's Dancers and Musician, Improvisation Collaborators:

Leda Maniatakou and Travis Reuter,

Part of LEAP! ARTEON In Motion,

Cesar Llamas, Founder and Olga Zissi, Director, Choreographer,

Dolmanisth, copyright 2010

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La Mama Performance, BEINGBLUE, LEAP! ARTEON In Motion, Cesar Llamas, Directed by Olga Zissi, NYC, NY, Photographer, Ionna Myrka

Performance Project,

BEINGBLUE!

Solo Performance Project,

Improvisational Collaboration with Olga Zissi's Dancers and Musician, Improvisation Collaborators:

Leda Maniatakou and Travis Reuter,

Part of LEAP! ARTEON In Motion,

Cesar Llamas, Founder and Olga Zissi, Director, Choreographer,

Dolmanisth copyright 2010

PRESENT in the moment

UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA,

Presented in the context of THE MIRACULOUS IN THE EVERYDAY

Curated by Director, Loretta Yarlow, 2006

Sculpture Exhibit: Tom Friedman, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gabriel Orozco

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PRESENT, IN THE MOMENT

Ephemeral, On Site Sculpture Installation and Performance

UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Presented in the context of THE MIRACULOUS IN THE EVERYDAY

curated by Director, Loretta Yarlow, 2006

Permanent sculpture exhibit: Tom Friedman, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gabriel Orozco

Sculpture suspended above Dolmanisth's performative works: Orozco's LINTELS 2001

Photographs by Andrea Burns

Smile Rainbow Tears

SMILE RAINBOW TEARS, Solo Performative Work

FIBI CONCRETE II, With Suzan Shutan, Yo Park,

Curated By Yo Park

TOMPKINS SQUARE GALLERY, New York City Public Library, New York City, NY

The performance involved the artist moving in a slow, contemplative improvisation, while releasing colored inks from a Water Carrier Body Sculpture, onto papers arranged on the floor in front of the audience, Present and Intimate, within a few feet of the mindful, concentrated attention, of the performative action.

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SMILE RAINBOW TEARS, Solo Performative Work

FIBI CONCRETE II, With Suzan Shutan, Yo Park

Curated By Yo Park

TOMPKINS SQUARE GALLERY, New York City Public Library, New York City, NY

The performance involved the artist moving in a slow, contemplative improvisation, while releasing colored inks from a Water Carrier Body Sculpture, onto papers arranged on the floor in front of the audience, Present and Intimate, within a few feet of the mindful, concentrated attention, of the performative action.

 

Touching Space

ZEA MAYS GALLERY, ZEA MAYS Printmaking Studio, Arts & Industry, Florence, MA

TOUCHING SPACE (flow), An Exhibition of Prints From the Flat Files Collection of Zea Mays

Curator, Karen Dolmanisth

TOUCHING SPACE (flow), included a Curators Talk and Contemplative Task Based, Action Performance:

"The Red (Inside Blue,) Slow Walk"

"A(wake) Walking Meditation"

A Paper Trail, Local Poke Root Berry, Bowls, Water, Hand Bells, Breath Count, Allen Phillips, Photographer

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ZEA MAYS GALLERY, ZEA MAYS Printmaking Studio

TOUCHING SPACE (flow)

An Exhibition of Prints,

Curator, Karen Dolmanisth, From the Flat Files Collection of Zea Mays Printmaking Studio, Arts & Industry, Florence, MA

TOUCHING SPACE (flow), included a Curators Talk and Contemplative Task Based, Action Performance:

"The Red (Inside Blue,) Slow Walk"

"A(wake) Walking Meditation"

A Paper Trail, Local Poke Root Berry, Bowls, Water, Hand Bells, Breath Count, Allen Phillips, Photographer

SENTIENCE, UP down Strange Beauty

Solo Performance Commission for the 90th Anniversary Art Festival in Honor of DaDA - Zurich

Curator, Founder / Director, Sukran Aziz

CaBAret VOltAire ART CENTER, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2008

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SENTIENCE, Up Down Strange Beauty,

Solo Performance Commission for the 90th Anniversary Art Festival in Honor of DaDA - Zurich

Curator, Founder / Director, Sukran Aziz

CaBAret VOltAire ART CENTER, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2008

TRANSFORMATIONS, Place Like Home

TRANSFORMATIONS, Place Like Home

NASHAWANUK GALLERY, OZ, Easthampton, MA,
Seasonal Plants ( Berries ) as Pigment
Performance Action Contemplation Work
Sound, Breath, Movement, TRANSFORMATIONS / Grind, Sift, Paint, Pour 
Curated by Terry Rooney, August 12, 2007, Photographed by Kirtland Snyder.

Shells, kitchen glassware, water, local poke root berry juice, paper, leaves, asphalt, rain

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TRANSFORMATIONS, Place Like Home

NASHAWANUK GALLERY, OZ, Easthampton, MA,
Seasonal Plants ( Berries ) as Pigment
Performance Action Contemplation Work
Sound, Breath, Movement, TRANSFORMATIONS / Grind, Sift, Paint, Pour 
Curated by Terry Rooney, August 12, 2007, Photographed by Kirtland Snyder.

Shells, kitchen glassware, water, local poke root berry juice, paper, leaves, asphalt, rain

Loom II

“LOOM II”, Solo Sculpture Installation Exhibit, shown at the OPEN SQUARE GALLERY, Mill #3, Holyoke, MA. Site specific work, by commission. LOOM II, as Instrument and Cascade: linen, wool, cotton thread, plant fibers and material, stones, vessels, canal and river water, changing sunlight.

Grass Mountain, Green Wave

“GRASS MOUNTAIN, GREEN WAVE” shown within the “INTERSECTIONS” exhibition, Sculpture and Installation from distinguished Massachusetts Artists Open Square, Mill #3 Gallery, Holyoke, MA.

Loom I

“LOOM I”, Solo Sculpture Installation Exhibit, shown at the OPEN SQUARE GALLERY, Mill #3, Holyoke, MA. Site specific work, by commission. LOOM I, Light Wave: linen, wool, cotton thread, plant fibers and material, stones, vessels, canal and river water, changing sunlight.

chance & Necessity I, II, III, IV

1999 “CHANCE & NECESSITY I, II, III, IV” Series of Four Different Sculpture Installations as a Two Month A.I.R. Project With Experimental Musician / Composer, Helen Harrison THE ART BANK Shelburne Falls, MA