INSTALLATION PERFORMATIVE WORKS
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
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
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
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
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
As mountains
“AS MOUNTAINS” , With Poet, Holly Wren Spaulding, GEOFFREY YOUNG GALLERY, Great Barrington, MA, 2020 Photograph, John Clarke
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
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
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 … Read more
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
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 … Read more
FIRST LANGUAGE, Immanence and Interpenetration
TABER GALLERY, Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA
FROM MOTHERHOOD TO MOTHER GODDESS, AKUS GALLERY, CURATED BY NEETA OMPRAKASH NAIQUE, NEHRU FULLBRIGHT SCHOLAR
AKUS GALLERY, Eastern Connecticut State College, Williamantic, CT, Curated by Neeta Omprakash Naique, Nehru Fullbright scholar, with Tenzin Wangchuk performing Tibetan Chants and Storyteller, Raouf Mama
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
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
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
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
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”