Sari Karjalainen

Sari Karjalainen
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Basic information

b. 1969
Visual Artist - PhD candidate
Residence: Helsinki

Contact information

Phone number: +358 50 5411012
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Works from the artist

Name of the work: Ajankohtaista – Current
Name of the work: Keltainen sukellusvene – Yellow Submarine (2009)
Name of the work: Lentokone ja valas – Whale and Aeroplane (2011)
Name of the work: Tulva – The Flood (2010)
Name of the work: Salaperäinen saari – Mysterious Island (2011)
Name of the work: Maalaus sarjasta Keskeneräiset leikit: Keltainen ranta-auto – Painting from the series Incompleted Plays: Yellow Car on the Beach (2011)
Name of the work: Maalaus sarjasta Keskeneräiset leikit: Kolari – Painting from the series Incomplete Plays: Car Crash (2011)
Name of the work: Sarjasta Nukkuva lapsi: Uni papukaijasta ja keltaisesta lentokoneesta – Painting from the series Sleeping Child: A Parrot and an Aeroplane (2010)
Name of the work: Talvikaruselli – Winter Carousel (2003)
Name of the work: Kesällä kerran III – On a Summer Day III (2006)
Name of the work: Maalaus sarjasta Keskeneräiset leikit: Plotti – Painting from the series Incompleted Plays: A Plot (2010)
Name of the work: Kesällä kerran I – On a Summer Day I (2005)
Name of the work: Merimiehen sydän – Sailor’s Heart (2003)
Name of the work: Äidin syli II – Mom’s Hold II (2009)
Name of the work: Äidin syli III – Mom’s Hold III (2010)
Name of the work: Keltaisen kanin kehto; Maalaus Tuntematon vauva korissa – The Yellow Rabbit that Rocks the Cradle; Painting Unknown Baby In The Basket (2010)
Name of the work: Sarjasta Lelut: Papukaijan muotokuva – From the series Toys: Portrait of the Parrot (2010)
Name of the work: Kesällä kerran II – On a Summer Day II (2005)
Name of the work: Kuin mitään ei olisi tapahtunut II – As If Nothing Ever Happened II (2003)
Name of the work: Kuin mitään ei olisi tapahtunut II – As If Nothing Ever Happened II (2003)
Name of the work: Manhattan –sarjasta: Olemisen sietämätön keveys VI – From The series Manhattan: Unbearable lightness of being VI (2006)
Name of the work: Kuin mitään ei olisi tapahtunut – As If Nothing Ever Happened (2003)
Name of the work: Kuin mitään ei olisi tapahtunut – As If Nothing Ever Happened (2003)
Name of the work: Maalauksia kollektiivisesta Unpitsu -sarjasta – Paintings from the Collective series of Unpitsu-paintings (New York 2007)

Bio

2001 Visual Artist
Professional Level in Painting
[Vapaa Taidekoulu]
The Free Art School of Helsinki

2001 M.A.
University of Helsinki

2003 - Researcher
LANGNET-Post Graduate School,
University of Helsinki

CLIC - Doctoral Programme in Cognition, Learning, Instruction and Communication

2006 and 2007
Japanese Unpitsu-painting studies
in New York

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As an artist, the stance she has taken is the one as simply documenting (mostly) real events and elements of everyday life through painting. Sometimes it is a pure process of thinking (or total lack of it!), rather than perception, that is developed to a picture. Her artistic work include expressive ‘still lifes’ - produced with impressional state of mind.

Along with the visual art, she has worked in the research field. Her research deals with early human interaction, and especially, the questions of shared understanding and co-constructing the topic arising from the pictures.

Inspired by Japanese Unpitsu-painting and fascinated by the co-constructive and communicative element of interaction on the painting that is collaboratively produced, she is trying to handle the phenomena of both individuality and interaction in artistic work.

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Her works are included in the the State Art Collection, Suomen Ympäristökeskus SYKE and collections of Nokia Oyj, SOK, Princely Family of Liechtenstein and several private collections.

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The latest solo exhibition was held 2010 in Kulmagalleria in Helsinki.