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La bellezza di una biografia in lingua inglese.<br />

Un artista che ripercorre le vie della storia per esprimere se stessa.<br />

Karen Salicath born in Denmark 1968<br />

EDUCATION<br />

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, School of Design, graduation 1991<br />

Karen Jamali is an American, Danish-born artist living and working in New York City.<br />

She graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art School of Design in<br />

Copenhagen Denmark in 1991, and have been working as a painter and sculptor and<br />

a photgrapher for the past 25 years. Participating in numerous solo and group<br />

exhibitions throughout the world in museums and gallerys. She has received a<br />

number of honors and awards from the international art community. Her built<br />

works include several permanent pieces and are in more than 600 private<br />

colections. When sculpting she works predominantly in granite, bronze and glass,<br />

celebrating contrasts to carve out delicate figures from stiff and rigid materials. Her<br />

figures are at once graceful, delicate, simple and monumental. She draws on the<br />

human figure as a common language that speaks to, and links all people. Through<br />

the human body she is able to achieve works that evoke the universality of the<br />

human condition. It is a language that is accessible to all regardless of age, culture,<br />

and education. As a result, her figures are at times intentionally impersonal and<br />

anonymous, lacking detailed hands and faces, such that they embody a universal

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