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Illusory Meeting Places at the Windsor Art Center
PATRICIA FAHY 
“Illusory Meeting Places ” exhibit celebrates a twenty-five year dialogue between two New England artists, Karen Dolmanisth and Kathryn Myers. The title of this exhibition was drawn from a poem by the French surrealist writer Louis Aragon, “Under the hat of the Infinite, I escape indefinitely; do not search for me in my illusory meeting places.” The two artists first met while teaching in the Art Department at the University of Connecticut in 1984. They shared a studio at the Mansfield Training Center (a former institution) in Mansfield, CT, while living in the old mill town of Willimantic, CT, both evocative places haunted with many layers of history, memory, and spirit. This convergence of two individuals, and potent environments, although itself transient, left an imprint that effected many phases of their subsequent creative work and research, which has shared a synergy of ideas and interests. Myers exhibits recent paintings and Dolmanisth has created a site-specific installation.
Kathryn Myers was born in Chicago, Illinois and received her BA from Saint Xavier University in Chicago and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has been a professor of painting at the University of Connecticut since 1984 and currently serves on the board of the University's India Studies program. In 2002 she held a Fulbright Fellowship to India. She has exhibited her work widely in the United States and India as well as lecturing on the topic of American artists who have been influenced by the art and culture of India. She has attended artist residencies in India including the Kanoria Center for Arts in Ahmedabad and Sanskriti Kendra in Delhi. Recently she organized an exhibition titled "Everywhere/Nowhere, The Spiritual temperament in Current American Art for the 2009 International Festival of Sacred Arts in Delhi.
Karen Dolmanisth is a New Media Sculptor, Installation and Performance Artist. She studied painting with Jack Whitten at Cooper Union in New York City and went on to complete her BFA at Parsons School of Design and The New School for Social Research. Her MFA is in Sculpture/New Forms, Video and Performance Art, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Since 1978, Dolmanisth has been pushing the boundaries of contemporary experimental art. She has produced site-specific earthworks, environmental sculpture projects, transient, action-centered, task-based, endurance-happenings and contemplative, meditation-centered performance art works. She has created work for traditional museum and gallery venues and in such non-traditional spaces as railroad tracks, vacant lots, abandoned mills, factories and mental health facilities, cemeteries, river, lake, pond, and ocean sites, New York City piers, cornfields, woods, and mountain trails. Dolmanisth has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally.
