Ceramic Sculpture

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

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

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

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