K A R E N D O L M A N I S T H
kdolmanisth@outlook.com http://www.karendolmanisth.com
EDUCATION
University of Massachusetts, MFA Honors, Full Teaching Fellowship, SCULPTURE, NEW MEDIA, INSTALLATION
Amherst, Massachusetts
Hampshire College, VIDEO
New School For Social Research and NYU, Graduate Course Work: Semiotics, Film Studies
New York, New York
Parsons School of Design, New School For Social Research: BFA Summa Cum Laude,
Visual Art Studies, Illustration, Design, Printmaking, Kathy Dunn Memorial Full Four Year Scholarship Scholarship
New York, New York
Cooper Union, BFA Course Work, PAINTING, PRINTMAKING Studied Painting with JACK WHITTEN
New York, New York
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/DVD’S
Personal Memory, Artist Essays, “Vision, Genius, Confidence, Courage and Innovation”
UNFINISHED MEMORIES, 30 Years of EXIT ART, Steidl, 2016
Gottingen, Germany
TRIBUTARIES, Chance and Intent, Many Sources of Work In …Michael Cain, 2012
THREE RIVERS COLLEGE, Norwich, CT
LIFE LINES OF CONNECTION AND CONTINUITY& AWE
UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Produced By Jackie Hai, 2008, Curator, Loretta Yarlow
Amherst, MA
NEW ART
Edited by Roxana Marcoci, Dian Murphy, Eve Sinaiko
Published by ABRAMS, 1997,
New York, New York
WENN DIE KINDER SIND IM DUNKELN
Text by Birgit Jurgenssen, Andeas Pfersmann, Jeff Rian, 1994
Published by WEINER SECESSION,
Wien, Austria
PRAYING PROJECT, 2006, Trickster Theater
EXIT ART, New York, New York
FRAGMENTS AND WHOLENESS, The Temporal Art of Karen Dolmanisth
Bianca Kaprielian, 2002
SMITH COLLEGE School of Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
ARTIST ASSISTANTSHIP
Artist Assistant for artist, Kathryn Myers on her Fulbright
Dehli and Banaras, INDIA, 2011, 2013
Artist Assistant and Archivist for art critic and pioneering, international performance artist, LIL PICARD, with whom Dolmanisth frequented Andy Warhol's Factory/Studio at Union Square and accompanied to private interviews and openings, in Soho and the East Village in the seventies and early eighties.
New York City, NY, 1978-1984
GRANTS
2010 MASSACHUSETTS CULTURAL COUNCIL Grant, LCC Recipient, Exhibit: HERE and Artist Talk, Public Workshop
2008, 2009 MASSACHUSETTS CULTURAL COUNCIL, INDIVIDUAL ARTIST AWARD, INTERDISCIPLINARY MEDIA
2005 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER, Full Fellowship, Artist’ Resource Trust Award
2004 BERKSHIRE TACONIC A.R.T. AWARD
2004 MASSACHUSETTS CULTURAL COUNCIL Grant, LCC Recipient, INTERDISCIPLINARY MEDIA
2003 MASSACHUSETTS CULTURAL COUNCIL, INDIVIDUAL ARTIST AWARD, SCULPTURE/ INSTALLATION
2003, 2002, 2001, 2000 MASSACHUSETTS CULTURAL COUNCIL Grant, Individual Artist Award, LCC, INSTALLATION
1996 NEANEFA, New England Foundation For The Arts, ARTIST’SNEWFORMSPROJECT Grant
1979-83 CONNECTICUT SCHOLARSCHOLARSHIP AWARD, Four-Year Recipient
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
ART CHAMBER, in Calangute, Goa, INDIA 2013
MEAD MUSEUM, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts 2012
QERITICA GALLERY, Banaras, INDIA, Installation / performance with student collaboration from Banaras Hindu University 2011
CANAL GALLERY, Three Gallery Sites, Historic Industrial Canal District, Holyoke, MA, Full Year Inter-Media Site Work 2003
DAYTON ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM, Connecticut College, New London, CT 2001
Dolmanisth: Sculpture Installation with Action/Happenings, PARADOX, and Meredith Monk, with Ann Hamilton: MERCY
EUSEBIUSBIUTENSINGEL 52, Arnhem, Netherlands, Month long, In Residence Project: NEW AGE DADA 1995, 96
VIENNA SECCESSION MUSEUM, Vienna, Austria, Two monthIn Residence Project: WENN DIE KINDER… 1994
WEXNER CENTER FOR CONTEMPRARY ART MUSEUM, “Alchemy, Improv/ Happening”, Columbus, OH 1994
NEW WORK, Large Scale Ephemeral Constructions, SCULPTURE COURTYARD, Univ. of Mass, Amherst, MA 1989
SELECTED REVIEWS
2015 GREENFIELD RECORDER, “SYNCHRONICITY, Dolmanisth Takes Her Art Where It Leads Her” Trish Crapo
2013 THE BOSTON GLOBE, “ Festival of Sound and Performance Art” Cate McQuaid
2012 ARTSCOPE MAGAZINE, “Amherst Biennial 2012” Gregory Morrell
2010 ARTSCOPE MAGAZINE, “Amherst’s Joyful Biennial” Gregory Morrell
2009 FIRST CITY, DELHI, INDIA, “Everywhere/Nowhere, Spiritual Temperament in Current American Art” Siri Fort
2008 ARTSCOPE MAGAZINE, “KAREN DOLMANISTH” Gregory Morrell
2006 THE NEW YORK TIMES “The Studio Visit” Roberta Smith
2006 NY1 Stephanie Simon
2005 FreeNYC, “Franklin Furnace Archives” re: EXIT ARTPrayingproject
2005 BRIDGES, Publication on Science and Technology, re: EXIT ART Prayingproject Philip Steger
2004 SPRINGFIELD RECORDER, “Canal Knowledge, Holyoke’s Mind-Bending Art Exhibit” Pat Cahill
2003 ART IN AMERICA
“Smack Mellon” Lilly Wei
2002 THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Sacred Matter” Holland Cotter
2002 THE NEW YORK PRESS
“Sacred Matter”
2000 THE WASHINGTON POST Blake Gopnik
“Forget SOHO, Now It’s D.U.M.B.O., Forsaken Warehouse District, NY’s Latest Art Home
1994 NEW YORK MAGAZINE
“Dance Of Life And Death” Kay Larson
1994 THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Making A Statement With Castoff Objects” William Zimmer
1994 DIE PRESSE, DER STANDARD, Vienna, Austria
“Secession” Georg Schollhammer
1994 KURIER, Vienna, Austria
“Beautiful, Run Down, Raunchy and Very Touching” Henriette Horny
1994 SALZBURGER NACHRICHTEN, Vienna, Austria
“The Age Is Given Its Art Again” Jana Wisniewski
1994 FALTER, Vienna, Austria,
“Just No Shit” Mark Wailand
1994 ART IN NEW ENGLAND
“Creating an Exhibition / RESURRECTION / ‘Objects With New Souls” Sal Scalora
1994 THE HARTFORD COURANT
“Recycled Art” Owen McNally
1993 NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE
“Summing Up Doom And Gloom” Peter Plagens
1993 THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Assemblages Offer Views Of The Spiritual” Vivien Raynor
1992 VILLAGE VOICE
“Give Me Fever” Elizabeth Hess
SOLO PERFORMANCE ART (Selected)
(List of recent, Local/Interactive, on request)
2013 “LIGHTRAYS GOA” ART CHAMBER GALLERY, Goa, INDIA
2013 “CreativeDomestic” in conjunction with “From Motherhood to Mother Goddess” AKUS GALLERY, ECSU,Willimantic, CT
2012 “WinterLightIN SITE, Insight” MEAD MUSEUM, Amherst, MA
2012 “THE BALANCE - NATURE/SPIRIT/BODY/BREATHIMMANENCE” MEAD MUSEUM, Amherst, MA
2011 “GREETINGS, BANARAS”, collaboration with Ashok Leaves and audience QERITICA GALLERY, Varanasi, INDIA
2010 “LEAP, Arteon in Motion, BEINGBLUE” LA MAMA, New York City, NY
2010 “SMILE RAINBOW TEARS” TOMPKINS SQUARE GALLERY, New York City, NY
2009 “WALKING WOMAN: RED PURPLE” ZEA MAYS PRINTMAKING STUDIO, Northampton, MA
2008 “AWE” On Site at “ISLES OF VIEW”, By George Trakas, UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2008 “SENTIENCE”, “Up Down Strange Beauty” CABARET VOLTAIRE ART CENTER, Poughkeepsie, NY
2006 “PRESENT, In The Moment UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, UMASS, Amherst, MA
2005 “FLUX Emptying” EXIT ART, New York City, NY
2005 “WASHING PRAYER”, PRAYINGPROJECT EXIT ART, New York City, NY
2002 “ACTION TASKS CHANCE MOVEMENT LABOR BREATH TOUCH” SMACK MELLON, Brooklyn, NY
1995 “THE THUNDER /PERFECT MIND” C WORLD, NYC, NY
1995 “LADY” EUSEBIUSBIUTENSINGEL 52, Arnhem, THE NETHERLANDS
1994 “BLACK And GOLD” VIENNA SECCESSION MUSEUM, Vienna, AUSTRIA
1994 “INNER MARRIAGE, THE ALCHEMICAL BRIDE” REAL ART WAYS, Hartford, CT
GROUP EXHIBITIONS: SCULPTURE INSTALLATION (UNIQUE/SITE SPECIFIC, SELECTED) AND WORKS ON PAPER
2015 “STUDIO ARTS FACULTYEXHIBIT” RENAISSANCE ART SCHOOL GALLERY, Great Barrington, MA
2015 “THE BERKSHIRE COLLECTION” SAINT FRANCIS GALLERY, Lee, MA
2015 “BRINGING NEW IDEAS TO LIFE” SAINT FRANCIS GALLERY, Lee, MA
2015 “IF WALLS COULD TALK” SAINT FRANCIS GALLERY, Lee, MA
2014 “FACE TO FACE” SAINT FRANCIS GALLERY, Lee, MA
2014 “ROAD LESS TRAVELED” SAINT FRANCIS GALLERY, Lee, MA
2014 “COMPLEXITY OF EXPERIENCE, ENGAGING REALITY” SAINT FRANCIS GALLERY, Lee, MA
2014 “SELECTED VISIONS” SAINT FRANCIS GALLERY, Lee, MA
2014 “EYES AND SOUL OF AN ARTIST” SAINT FRANCIS GALLERY, Lee, MA
2013 “INSPIRATION OF THE SPIRIT” SAINT FRANCIS GALLERY, Lee, MA
2013 “HEAR, Sand Drawings On Shore” THE QUARRY, CONTEMPORARY ARTS INTERNATIONAL , Acton, MA
2013 “ABHAAS AUR ABHYAAS II” AURODHAN ART GALLERY, Pondicherry, INDIA
2013 “ABHAAS AUR ABHYAAS” GALERIA DE BELAS ARTES, Calangute, Goa, INDIA
2013 “FROM MOTHER HOOD TO MOTHER GODDESS,Transcendence…Self to Absolute” AKUS GALLERY, Willimntic, CT
2012 “TRIBUTARIES” with Kathryn Myers and Charlotte Cain Three Rivers Community College Art Gallery, Norwich, CT
2010 “FiBi CONCRETE” Tompkins Square Gallery of The NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY, New York City, NY
2010 “SHEER OPACITY” WILLIAM BENTON MUSEUM, Storrs, CT
2010 “HERE” A.P.E. , Northampton, MA
2010 “Amherst Biennial” Amherst, MA
2009 “EVERYWHERE / NOWHERE, Spiritual Temperament in Current American Art”
Gallery Of The American Embassy, Delhi, India
2009 “OPEN WEAVE”, NCA Studio Faculty Exhibit NORTHAMPTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Northampton, MA
2009 “PIONEER WOMEN” TABLA RASA GALLERY, Brooklyn, NY
2008 “EVERYWHERE / NOWHERE” International Festival of Sacred Arts, Delhi, India
2008 “TITLES” L’ECUME DES JOURS, Montreal, CANADA, traveling to venues in London, UK
2007 “TRANSIENCE” CABARET VOLTAIRE ART CENTER, Poughkeepsie, NY
2007 “DADA 91, SUPREME DEBRIS” CABARET VOLTAIRE, Poughkeepsi, NY
2006 “RENEGADES” EXIT ART, New York, NY
2006 “INTERSECTIONS, Sculpture and Installation from Distinguished Massachusetts Artists” OPEN SQUARE GALLERY, MA
2006 “SITE 92” SMACK MELLON, Brooklyn, NY
2006 “THE STUDIO VISIT” EXIT ART, New York, NY
2005 “TRAFFIC, (WINDOW INSTALLATIONS) “HOLIDAY WINDOWS”, FLUX, Emptying EXIT ART, New York, NY
2005 “OTHER AMERICA, THE PRAYING PROJECT” EXIT ART, New York, NY
2005 “DRAWING IN TIME: 3SCULPTOR’S APPROACH TO SPACE” A.P.EGALLERY, Northampton, MA
2004 “IN THE WOODS” DABORA GALLERY Brooklyn, NY
Seven Women Creating Site Specific Sculpture Installation, Curator: Lynda Dabora
2004 “THE RESPONSE” CANAL GALLERY, Holyoke, MA
2003 “ABSTRACT”, Curator, Chris Nelson CANAL GALLERY, Holyoke, MA
2000 “ANNIVERSARY EXHIBIT, 20 YEARS” EXIT ART
Curators: Jeanette Ingberman, Papo Colo New York, NY
1999 “MORE ORLESS” NO BIAS, Bennington, VT
Invitational, Juror: Kathleen Gilrain, Director, SOCRATES SCULPTUREPARK, NY, NY
1997 “THE GARDEN OF EVE”, 7 Women Sculptors LOWER EASTSIDE ECOLOGY CENTER
Invitational , Curator: Kathleen Gilrain, Dir., SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK, NY, NY New York, NY
1996 “GROUND FLIGHT” ONE MAIN SCULPTURE CENTER
Sculpture Installation New York, NY
1996 “IN THE NIGHT GARDEN” ONE MAIN SCULPTURE CENTER
Sculpture Installation New York, NY
1995 “NEXT AGE DADA” EUSEBIUSBIUTENSINGEL 52
Installation “LADY OF THE SILVER WHEEL” Arnhem, The Netherlands
1995 “THE NEXT TWENTY FIVE YEARS” WESTBETH GALLERY
Installation, “INANNA’SDESCENT, Contemporary Context” New York, NY
1994 “FEVER, Traveling” THE WEXNER CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Installation, Unique, Site-Specific, “ALCHEMY, IMPROV, OFFERING”
Curators: Jeanette Ingberman, Papo Colo, of EXIT ART, NY, NY Columbus, OH
1994 “WENN DIE KINDER SIND IM DUNKELN” WEINER SECCESSION (VIENNA SECCESSION MUSEUM
Installation, “THOSE WHO DO NOT SURVIVE, A Memorial”
Curator: Birgit Jurgenssen Vienna, Austria
1994 “THE GARDEN OF SCULPTURAL DELIGHTS” EXIT ART / THE FIRST WORLD
Installation, “RADICAL FAITH” New York, NY
Curators: Jeanette Ingberman, Papo Colo
1994 “RESURRECTIONS, OBJECTS WITH NEW SOULS” THE WILLIAM BENTON MUSEUM
Installation, “ INANNA HONORS…AND RESSURECTS THE DESECRATED TREE OF…” Storrs, CT
Curators: Salvatore Scalora, Deborah Darcy
1993 “FEVER, Innaugural Exhibition” EXIT ART
Installation, “INANNA / ALCHEMY, Nigredo, Albedo, Conjunctio…” New York, NY
Curators: Jeanette Ingberman, Papo Colo
1993 “SPIRITUAL CARGO” THE CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER
Installation, “THE JOURNEY MARKERS OF PERSEPHONE’S CLOAK” Hartford, CT
1991 “SACRED SPACE / FOUR SCULPTORS” WHEELER GALLERY
Installation, “THE DAUGHTER’S CLOSET OF WONDER, MAGIC & SHADOW” Amherst, MA
1991 “4 X 4 SCULPTORS”, with Dan Zeller, Kathleen Gilrain, Michael Yue Tong BAYSTATE WEST ATRIUM
Three Story Height Mall Atrium Installation Springfield, MA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS/ SCULPTURE INSTALLATION(UNIQUE, SITE-SPECIFIC)
2015 “DOLMANISTH, NEW WORKS” SALMON FALLS GALLERY, Shelburne falls, MA
2015 “DOLMANISTH, STUDIO ART FACULTY EXHIBIT” RENAISSANCE ART SCHOOL GALLERY,Great Barrington, MA
2013 “HEAR, Water, Sand, Sky, Reflection and Light” THE QUARRY, Contemporary Arts International, Acton, MA
2013 “PLACE 3 STONES and Water Drawings” Krtashraya Aurodhan Art Gallery and Garden, Pondicherry, INDIA
2012 “THE BALANCE - NATURE/SPIRIT/BODY/BREATHIMMANENCE” Mead Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
2011 “GRACE, with Ashok Leaves and The River Ganges Walking” QERITICA GALLERY, Assi Ghat, Banaras, INDIA
2010 “SMILE RAINBOW TEARS” Yo Park’s FiBi Concrete II(Brochure) TOMPKINS SQUARE GALLERY, New York City, NY
2009 “FIRST LANGUAGE, Immanence and Interpenetration” TABER GALERY, Holyoke, MA
2008 “LIFE LINES OF CONNECTION & CONTINUITY” On Site Installation at George Trakas’ “ISLE OF VIEW” Campus Pond
UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, UMASS, Amherst, MA
2006 “LOOM II”, An Industrial Mill Works Installation Collaboration w/ the Site & Afternoon Sun OPEN SQUARE GALLERY
The Historic Canal District, Holyoke, MA
2006 “PRESENT, In The Moment” Installation/ActionUNIVERSITY GALLERY, FINE ARTS CENTER, UMASS, Amherst, MA
2005 “FLUENT” Works on Paper and Ephemeral Constructions THE LAST MINUTE GALLERY, Northampton, MA
2005 “ARROWS, NEEDLES, SPEARS, & STRANDS” VERMONT STUDIO CENTER
2005 “STILL MOTION” Four Walls of Drawings and Prints Schultz Sculpture Barn, Johnson, VT
2004 “INANNA, The Heroine’s Quest” WILLIAM BLIZARD GALLERY
3 Galleries. Installation, Drawings, &Solo Performance, Holly S. Murray - Curator Springfield College, Springfield, MA
2004 “IMMANENT & TRANSCENDING CIRCLES OF TIME” CANAL GALLERY
Three Gallery Sculpture Installations, Chris Nelson, Curator, Year long Artist in Residence Project Holyoke, MA
2003 “AXIS / ORBITING / Contain” NORTHAMPTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Massachusetts Local Cultural Council Award Project, Sculpture Installation Northampton, MA
2003 “MORPHOGENESIS” I & II WILD LIFE SANCTUARY
Massachusetts Local Cultural Council Award Project, Sculpture Installation Northampton, MA
2002 “THEOLOGICAL REVERSALS” I, II, II, & IV“SACRED MATTERPROJECT” SMACK MELLON
Series of Four Time-Based Changing Installations, Two Galleries Kathleen Gilrain – Curator Brooklyn, NY
2002 “SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING / Ground Work” NORTHAMPTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Massachusetts Local Cultural Council Award Project Northampton, MA
2002 “VERTICAL LOOM, VERTICAL TIME” NCA
Massachusetts Local Cultural Council Award Project, Sculpture Installation Northampton, MA
2001 “PARADOX” CRO’S NEST, CONNECTICUT COLLEGE
Part of an Endowed DAYTON VISITING ARTIST (Artist In Residence) AWARD New London, CT
2001 “PARADOX / CONTINUOUS CREATION (Transformation) CRO’S NEST, CONNECTICUT COLLEGE
Installation In Motion / Transformation DAYTON A.I.R. AWARD New London, CT
2001 “THE FALL” NCA
Massachusetts Local Cultural Council Award, Installation and Performance Project Northampton, MA
“CREATE/ un-do” NCA
Massachusetts, LCC Award, Installation and Performance Project Northampton, MA
“DANCING IN THE FLAMES’ NORTHAMPTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Massachusetts LCC Award, Installation and Performance Project Northampton, MA
“THE UNSEEN REAL” NCA
Massachusetts LCC Award, Sculpture and Interdisciplinary Performance Project Northampton, MA
2000 “NEMETON lean-sa dluth ri cliu do shinnear” GRUBBS GALLERY, Williston Northampton Academy
Time-Based Changing Installation, With Composer J.B. Weeks Easthampton, MA
2000 “OPENING THE LANGUAGE” HAMDEN GALLERY
Curator, Anne La Prad University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2000 “BEYOND & HERE, RELATIONSHIPS” CENTER FOR ART AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
InstallationCollaboration with Musician/ Composer Michael Billingsley Northampton, MA
2000 “Interior INTERPRETATIONS Exterior” NORTHAMPTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Installation Collaboration with Experimental Musician/ Composer, Helen Harrison Northampton , MA
1999 “CHANCE & NECESSITY I, II, II, IV” THE ART BANK
Series of Four Different Sculpture Installations as a Two MonthA.I.RProject Shelburne Falls, MA
With Experimental Musician / Composer, Helen Harrison
1999 “ LIVE / WORKI& II” FLYWHEEL
Installation and Collaboration with Experimental Musician / Composer, Helen Harrison Easthampton, MA
1995 “THE THUNDER / PERFECT MIND: CORN, DICTIONARY, GLASS, SHELLS” C WORLD
Actions Within A Sculpture Installation, With Composer / Musician, J.B.Weeks New York City, NY
1995 “THE THUNDER/ PERFECT MIND: CORN, WHITE DRESS OF FLAMES, SILENCE, CHAIR” CWORLD
Actions Within A sculpture Installation, Audience Participants, and Composer, J.B.Weeks New York City, NY
1993 “SACRIFICE: TO MAKE SACRED” HAMDEN GALLERY
Installation and Collaboration with Spoken Word Artists University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1992 “DAUGHTERS AND MEMORY” WHEELER GALLERY
Sculpture Installation University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1989 “NEW WORK, Large Scale Ephemeral Constructions THE SCULPTURE COURTYARD
Three Month, A.I.R. Outdoor Sculpture Installation, Changing University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1989 “EVICTION / QUESTIONS OF PROPERTY” SITE: CONDEMNED HOUSE, ROUTE 195
Condemned House From the Seventeenth Century, Changing Installation Storrs, CT
GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
PIEROGI 2000, Flat Files
Brooklyn, NY
Drawings, Painting, Collage
EXIT ART
NYC, NY
Seven Group Exhibitions, EXIT ART Archives, Curators: Papo Colo, Jeanette Ingberman
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
SCULPTURE INSTALLATIONS (UNIQUE, SITE-SPECIFIC)
2011 “TRAVELERS AND HOUSEHOLDERS” Varanasi, INDIA
2009 “ILLUSORY MEETING PLACES, a brief tribute to people and places~” WINDSOR CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
Sculpture Installation and Photographs, With Painter, Kathryn Myers Windsor, CT
2002 “SACRED MATTER”, With Deborah Masters SMACK MELLON
Curator: Kathleen Gilrain Brooklyn, NY
1993 “UNVEILING THE BRIDE” REAL ART WAYS
Installation, “ALCHEMICAL WEDDING” Hartford, CT
Curator: Salvatore Scalora, With Artist, Genara Banzon
1992 “SHAPECHANGERS OFTHE SACRED AND THEPROFANE” AMHERST CENTER FOR THE ARTS
With Artist, Curator, of THE WILLIAM BENTON MUSEUM, Storrs, CT, Salvatore Scalora Amherst, MA
1992 “MARRIAGE OF ABOVE AND BELOW” CENTER FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS
With Artist Laura Zindel University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
SITE WORK, ENVIRONMENTAL/ OUTDOORS (A Selection)
TEMPORAL, TIME – BASED, SITE – SPECIFIC (Full List On Request)
1995 “Sand Pile Presence” NORTHAMPTON RAILROAD TRACKS, Northampton, MA
1995 “Corn, Traffic, Still Point” HADLEY FARM ROAD, Northampton, MA
1995 “Homeless, Earth Site” CONNECTICUT RIVER BED, Northampton, MA
1995 “Stone Works, Communion, Interference” QUABBIN RESERVOIR, New Salem, MA
1995 “Circle Of Sludge, Sunset” TOOL FACTORY, SALMON FALLS, Shelburne Falls, MA
1995 “Circle, Mound, Line” QUABBIN RESERVOIR, New Salem, MA
1995 “Spirit” MT. HOOD, Portland, OR
1995 “Determined By The State” CONDEMNED SITE, MANSFIELD TRAINING SCHOOL, Mansfield, CT
1985- 2009 “Seeking Language / Using History” ABANDONED RAILROAD TRACKS/ THREAD FACTORY, Willimantic, CT
VIDEO ( A Selection)
2013 “Life Lines of Connection and Continuity” and “LOOM, As Instrument and Cascade” THE QUARRY, Acton, MA
2006 “River Works” The Mill River, Northampton, MA
2006 “The Studio Visit” EXIT ART, NY, NY
2006 “SMACK MELLON Moves to the Waterfront” SMACK MELLON, NY, NY
1995 “Flaming White Dress, Corn, Worn Down Woman” C WORLD, New York, NY
1995 “Corn, Dictionary, Lost Gospel” C WORLD, New York, NY
1995 “Process, Production, Ritual: Leaving” The Artist’s Apartment, METROPOLITAN AVENUE, Brooklyn, NY
1995 “Resurrections: The Sea” THEOCEAN, Ninnigret, RI
1994 “Temple, Contemporary Disintegration of a Paradigm” HOTEL ORIENT, Vienna, AUSTRIA
1994 “ Studying Difference” HOTEL ORIENT, Vienna, AUSTRIA
1994 “Visiting Herman Nitsch’s Studio, with Andreas Serrano” CASTLE OF HERMAN NITSCH, Prizendorf, AUSTRIA
1994 “Towers On Top OfBones” Vienna, AUSTRIA
1992 “The Bedroom, (Inanna / Dumuzi)” OLD HOUSE, Shutesbury, MA
1989- “Private / Public, Home As Site” MANY MOVES, Shutesbury, Leverett, MA
2011 “Body, Television, Personal Space” 943 METROPOLITAN AVE., Brooklyn, NY
“Body, Television, Personal Space” Conway, MA
5 Tudor City Place, NY, NY
1991/94 “Poetics, A Visual Love Affair” Shutesbury, MA, Brooklyn, NY
1991/94 “Our Bodies Have Hair”, “Break Down”, “Power”, “Resistance”, “Persona” Shutesbury, MA, Brooklyn, NY
OPEN STUDIO INSTALLATIONS (A Selection)
1995 “Closet / Oasis” THE MILLWORKS STUDIOS, Willington, CT
1995 “Leaving The City” 943 METROPOLITAN AVE, Brooklyn, NY
1993 “Falling, Flying Women, Dogs And Seaweed Wall” 943 METROPOLITAN AVE, Brooklyn, NY
1992 “Alchemical Bride As Oracle, Scarlet Lady As Oracle” MARSHALL ANNEX STUDIOS, Amherst, MA
1991/92 “Alchemical Bride” MARSHALL ANNEX STUDIOS, Amherst, MA
1991/92 “Alchemy” MARSHALL ANNEX STUDIOS, Amherst, MA
1991/92 “The Wedding” MARSHALL ANNEX STUDIOS, Amherst, MA
1991/92 “Fire And Grass” MARSHALL ANNEX STUDIOS, Amherst, MA
PROJECTS PRODUCED ThroughNEA NEFA / NEW FORMS GRANT
1996/97 MULTI-MEDIA CD
“TOUCHPRAYERS” Photography, Allen Phillips, Musician / Composer, J.B. Weeks
1996/97 NARRATIVE DOCUMENTARY PHOTO SERIES, Allen Phillips, Photographer
“RESISTANCE” ARTS & INDUSTRY, Northampton, MA
“FEMALE YANG” ROCKVILLE BIRTHING CENTER, Rockville, CT
NARATIVE DOCUMENTARY / SITE- WORK, IMPROV HAPPENINGS, Allen Phillips, Photographer
“CYCLE OF THE DARK MOON/ NEW MOON,
Death, New Life, Beginning Waiting” ABANDONED USE RD, Mansfield, CT
“RIVER’S EDGE / CIRCLE” Dolmanisth, Photographer
PINE FOREST, Mansfield, CT
“WINTER, Jars of Thawed Pond Water” Dolmanisth, Photographer
NATURALLY FORMING MOSS CIRCLE, Pond Edge, Coventry, CT
“WINTER, Frozen Reservoir, Long Walk” Dolmanisth, Photographer
WATER’S EDGE, Mansfield Reservoir, Mansfield, CT
TIME-BASED SITE-SPECIFIC SCULPTURE INSTALLATIONS
And COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS Through NEA NEFA / NEW FORMS GRANT
1998 “BLONDE BRANCHES” P.S. 122
HOT HOUSE IMPROVISATIONAL SERIES New York, NY
Sculptor, Karen Dolmanisth, Dancer / Choreographer, Chivas Sandage
1998 “BLONDE BRANCHES” JOYCESOHO
NEW DANCE ALLIANCE PERFORMANCE MIX New York, NY
Sculptor, Karen Dolmanisth, Dancer / Choreographer, Chivas Sandage
1998 “CONTINUOUS CONTAINERS” T. E. M. P. PROJECT SPACE
Kinetic Sculpture, Installation and Performance Shelburne Falls, MA
1998 “CONSTELLATION I& II” T. E. M. P. PROJECT SPACE
Sculptor/ Installation Artist, Karen Dolmanisth
Musician / Composer, Michael Richardson,
Dancer / Choreographers, Chivas Sandage, Harriet Jastremski, Rose Oceana Shelburne Falls, MA
1998 “STRING and STONE, Known, Not Known, I, II, III” T. E. M. P. PROJECT SPACE
Sculptor, Installation, Performance Artist, Karen Dolmanisth Shelburne Falls, MA
1998 “(with) WING(s) IT(and Owl’s Feet) LIFE AND HARMONY CAFÉ
Sculpture and Drawings In Time: Artist, Karen Dolmanisth
Musician / Composer, Joe Bartone, ofFAT BUDDAHS Springfield, MA
COLLEGE TEACHING
Academy of Art and Design, S’Herto D’en Bosse, Netherlands
Sculpture, Installation, Artist Books, Intermedia/ Interdisciplinary Research Projects and Papers
Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire
Intro To Drawing, Drawing I, Interdisciplinary Design I
Vermont College, Norwich University, Montpelier, Vermont
Sculpture, Trans Media and Collaborative Forms, Artists Books, Installation, MFA Thesis Faculty Mentor
University of Massachusetts, School of Fine Arts, Amherst, Massachusetts
3D Design II (Sculpture), 3D Design I (Basic Sculpture), 2D Design II, 2D Design I, Installation/ New Media
Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, Massachusetts
Video, Figure Drawing
Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, Massachusetts
Drawing I, Drawing and Composition, Art History, Twentieth Century Art Survey
Eastern Connecticut State College, Willimantic, Connecticut
Drawing I, Intro to Studio, Art History Survey, Art History
University of Connecticut, School of Fine Arts, Storrs, Connecticut
Advanced Design, 2D I, II, Illustration Concepts, Senior Independent Projects and Papers, Foundation Drawing
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