Sculpture Installations

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

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

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

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

 

Assi Ghat - Grace - Image_02

“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

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

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