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 is an artist who makes sculpture, installations, and drawings that explore the intangible issue of presence, absence, loss, and disconnect- questioning the space between what is tangible, and what is ungraspable or evanescent.

Dolmanisth's art practice weaves through drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and time-based multi-media installations. Her work integrates elements of movement, form, space, and light, into transformative sculpture installations. Her evolving time-based installation in Geissler pays homage to Enheduanna, working through language, healing, and the seemingly inexpressible.

About Olivia Bernard /
Bernard holds a BA in Art History from Brown University and a MFA in Sculpture from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. She has exhibited at galleries and museums in New England and New York, including APE Gallery in Northampton, MA, Hampden Gallery at UMass Amherst, the Brattleboro Museum, the List Center at Brown University, the Smith College Museum of Art, Marymount Manhattan, and Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton NJ among others. She's a recipient of a Massachusetts Artists Fellowship, various residencies, and was nominated for
the Awards in the Visual Arts and has taught at numerous colleges In the northeast including the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, M.l. T., Amherst College, and Mt. Holyoke College. Visit her website at oliviabernard.com

About Karen Dolmanisth/
Dolmanisth earned her BFA, Summa Cum Laude, combining studies in Visual Arts and Semiotics at Cooper Union Parsons School of Design, and the New School For Social Research, New York, and her MFA, Summa Cum Laude, in Multimedia, Sculpture, and Video Art at the University of Massachusetts and Hampshire College in Massachusetts. Dolmanisth has gallery representation with Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Rhode Island & currently teaches at Jamestown Art Center. She has exhibited internationally at galleries & museums including The Secession Museum, [Austria], Exit Art [NY], Wexner Center for Contemporary Art[OH], Mead Museum, Amherst [MA], among others. Dolmanisth is the recipient of a Nation Endowment for the Arts, NIFA Award, numerous Mass Art Council Awards, and a nomination for the prestigious Rappaport Prize. Visit her website at karen-dolmanisth.com

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