Current Projects

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

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

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

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