Multimedia Artist
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
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
KAREN DOLMANISTH PAST PRESENT FUTURE, ORACLES, PRIESTESSES & HEALERS, In Communion With Primordial Divine Mother Consciousness, HERA GALLERY SOLO EXHIBITION PAST PRESENT FUTURE, ORACLES, PRIESTESSES & HEALERS, In Communion With Primordial Divine Mother Consciousness, HERA GALLERY SOLO EXHIBITION Detail, PAST PRESENT FUTURE, ORACLES, PRIESTESSES & HEALERS, In Communion With Primordial Divine Mother Consciousness, … Read more
KAREN DOLMANISTH Dolmanisth, 2025, Berkshire Centerpoint, Table Rock Gallery, Photo by Paula Kurasch Dolmanisth, 2025, Berkshire Centerpoint, Table Rock Gallery, Photo by Paula Kurasch Dolmanisth, 2025, Berkshire Centerpoint, Table Rock Gallery, Photo by Paula Kurasch Karen Dolmanisth, 2025, Berkshire Centerpoint, Table Rock Gallery, Photo: Paula Kurasch Karen Dolmanisth, 2025, Berkshire Centerpoint, Table … Read more
KAREN DOLMANISTH Karen Dolmanisth, 2025, Berkshire Centerpoint, Table Rock Gallery, Photo: Paula Kurasch Karen Dolmanisth, 2025, Berkshire Centerpoint, Table Rock Gallery, Photo: Paula Kurasch Karen Dolmanisth, 2025, Berkshire Centerpoint, Table Rock Gallery, Photo: Paula Kurasch Karen Dolmanisth, 2025, Berkshire Centerpoint, Table Rock Gallery, Photo: Paula Kurasch Karen Dolmanisth, 2025, Berkshire Centerpoint, Table … Read more
PRIESTESS OF WOMEN WHOSE HANDS HELD THREAD KAREN DOLMANISTH, 2026 Weaving Threads Of Connection Through Past, Present, Future, Above & Below, Here & Beyond, I, Thou, One With All That Is Purple, Green, Blue and Gold Threads, Local Natural Materials From Forest and Sea Coast, Glass Vial, Local Sea Water, Local Wood River … Read more
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
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
EXIT ART, FEVER, Inaugural 548 Broadway, Soho, NYC, NY Exhibition, INANNA / ALCHEMY, Nigredo, Albedo, Rubedo, Conjunctio EXIT ART, FEVER, Inaugural 548 Broadway, Soho, NYC, NY Exhibition, INANNA / ALCHEMY, Nigredo, Albedo, Rubedo, Conjunctio EXIT ART, FEVER, Inaugural 548 Broadway, Soho, NYC, NY Exhibition, INANNA / ALCHEMY, Nigredo, Albedo, Rubedo, Conjunctio EXIT ART, … Read more
KAREN DOLMANISTH, VIRGINIA BRADLEY, CHRIS MALCOMSON. Drawing, Hand Built Stoneware Sculpture, Multimedia Paintings by Dolmanisth, Paintings by Bradley and Malcomson
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
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
Dolmanisth, SUNY CGCC, Foundation Gallery II, Detail, South Wall, EARTH MOTHER GODDESS HEARTS, 2024 Dolmanisth, Foundation Gallery II, SUNY CGCC, PERSEPHONE, THE MAIDEN DAUGHTER’S JOURNEYS, 2024, Detail Dolmanisth, SUNY CGCC, Foundation Gallery II, 2024, Detail, South Wall, EARTH MOTHER GODDESS HEARTS, Detail Dolmanisth, SUNY CGCC, Foundation Gallery II, 2024, Detail, South Wall, EARTH … Read more
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 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
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
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 ( 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
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
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
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
