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KAREN SALicAth JAmALi

Lives and works in Soho New York, USA
www.jamalinycgallery.com, www.kjamali.com

karen Jamali is an American, Danish-born artist living and working in New works that evoke the universality of the human condition. It is a language
York City. She graduated from the Danish School of Design in Copenhagen that is accessible to all regardless of age, culture, and education. As a result,
Denmark in 1991, and have been working as a painter and sculptor and a her figures are at times intentionally impersonal and anonymous, lacking
photgrapher for the past 25 years. Participating in numerous solo and group detailed hands and faces, such that they embody a universal generality and
exhibitions throughout the world in museums and gallerys. She has received she is challenged to convey emotion purely through gesture and poise. In
a number of honors and awards from the international art community. Her her 2D works, she paints with rich pigments on cork canvases, or creates
built works include several permanent pieces and are in more than 600 textural fresco temperas using natural ground pigments bonded with
private colections. when sculpting she works predominantly in granite, archival substrates. Her pieces aim to engage the viewer both physically and
bronze and glass, celebrating contrasts to carve out delicate figures from emotionally, to bring about a level of mutual interaction to the encounter.
stiff and rigid materials. Her figures are at once graceful, delicate, simple and
monumental. She draws on the human figure as a common language that
 pEACE & LoVE, 2012 PHOTOgRAPH
speaks to, and links all people. Through the human body she is able to achieve
 by TIME, 2012 PHOTOgRAPH

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