Karen Salicath Jamali is an American, artist living and working in New York City. She graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, School of Design in Copenhagen Denmark in 1991, and has been working as a painter, sculptor, and a photographer for the past 25 years. Participating in over 100 solo and group exhibitions throughout the world including the Louvre Museum in Paris, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Monreale, Kume Museum Tokyo. She has received a number of honors and awards from the international art community. Her built works include several permanent pieces and are in more than 600 private collections. When sculpting she works predominantly in bronze and glass, celebrating contrasts to carve out delicate figures. Her pieces are at once graceful, delicate, simple and monumental. She draws on the human figure as a common language that speaks to us. Through her style she is able to achieve works that evoke the universality of human condition. It is a language that is accessible to all regardless of age, culture, and education. Because of this, her figures, at times, are intentionally impersonal and anonymous. They lack detailed hands and faces, so that they embody universality. She is able to convey emotion purely though gesture and pose. In her 2D works, she paints with rich pigments on cork canvases, or creates textural fresco temperas using natural ground pigments bonded with archival substrates. Her pieces engage the viewer both physically and emotionally. She utilizes a combination of ancient and modern elements, so that she may convey the language of inner emotion through visible forms. The themes in both her 2D and 3D works are inspired by Christian, Greek and Nordic mythology, Paleolithic cave paintings, physics, the classical elements, and the human form. Several of her pieces are inspired by the phenomena in general relativity known as “Event Horizons”. An event horizon is a space-time boundary beyond which the laws of physics as we know them, cease to exist. It is her hope that her works speak to the soul and entice the viewer to see beyond the mere physicality of a piece, to a level of deeper personal understanding and emotional meaning. Her work can be seen permanently in the Jamali NYC Gallery, located in SoHo, New York.
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